[Homestead] Rice

eureka at hctc.net eureka at hctc.net
Sat Nov 1 14:25:56 EDT 2008


OK Bev, I think you and I should be the rice growing 
guinea pigs of the list serve. Let's do it with our 
respective pools. We can document it on our blogs. 
Whaddayasay??

Now I need to find out when to plant, what kind of rice, 
and where to get the grain seed. I suppose a bag of brown 
rice from the supermarket won't do, although I remember 
Bill saying he planted his fava beans right from the 
health food store bag.

--Sage



On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:32:49 -0400
  EarthNSky <erthnsky at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Yes, I have seen the Budweiser Rice Paddies in both LA 
>and Arkansas. 
> This is not what I envision for here, not even close..I 
>am thinking of a 
> small paddy in a low lying area, using a swimming 
>pool(above ground 
> metal sided type) to create a wetland, using a rainwater 
>collection 
> tank(300 ga) to fill the paddy.  Of course, draining is 
>easy.
> That is of course, for wetland rice, which is what is 
>grown in the US.
> 
> Dry land rice intrigues me, but I need to find out more 
>about it.
> 
> B



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