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  • From: Marimike6@cs.com
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Need plant variety ID
  • Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 04:56:36 EDT

Lawrence-- Most people who grow millet for bread grow varieties of pearl
millet, while bird seed generally contains something called proso millet.
Your
volunteers may be of both the red and the white varieties of proso-- you
won't
know until they mature.

The best way to tell whether your millet is worthwhile to consider as a crop
would be to figure out how to remove the chaff, grind it up and make some
bread from it. Otherwise it could be useful in attracting birds.

Here's something on the distinction between proso and pearl:

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/ncnu02/v5-100.html

Nutritional differences between the strains can probably be found somewhere
on the web. I suspect the main difference with proso is that it can be grown
in
the Dakotas and upper midwest. Most millet varieties developed for human
consumption occur in tropical Africa and Asia.




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