How do you plant wheat?

Question

I have some raw hard red wheat that I bought in a bag to turn into flour. Can I just plant these in the ground to grow into wheat or do I need actual wheat seeds to plant?

Also once I plant the wheat do I need to re-plant the crop each year after I harvest it, or do I just let it grow back to harvest again?

Once they grow are the vulnerable to animals such as birds or deer?

Thanks for all your answers. I'm not gonna pick a best answer since they were all very informative.

Answer 1

They are actual wheat seeds, so you could plant them and they would probably grow. Work up your ground and broadcast the seed. It is pretty late to be starting, depending on where you live. Yes, you need to replant every year.
Small plots of wheat like you are talking about are very vulnerable to deer and birds. In fact I would suspect that your wheat would turn out to be excellent as wildlife feed and they get a lot more out of it than you will. (A good reason to plant it.)

Answer 2

You could do a germination test on the seed you have To se if it will grow. you could plant it in rows by hand. We use a drill that plants 100 acres a day or more. About 1 seed per inch rows about 6 inches apart. Hard red spring wheat is an annual crop so you will need to replant every year. Deer do like it. Depending on the variety it usually is mature in 110 days for harvesting.

Answer 3

Planting: The old timers planted their wheat by 'broadcasting it.' They did this simply by throwing it in a fan shape by hand. How densely it needs to be seeded depends again on how much water is available for the crop. The drier the ground the lighter you want to seed it. This is because the denser the growing wheat, the quicker the available moisture in the ground will be used up. I live in wheat country. Around here, the farmers plant 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 bushels to the acre (that's 80-96 lbs). But to put it into more manageable terms for the guy who wants to do this on a small patch, lets say, 100 feet by 100 feet (10,000 square feet) that would come to 18-22 lbs of wheat. That also comes out to 7.5-9.0 grams of wheat per cubic yard. Perhaps we should mention farmers now only plant 'treated wheat.' This is wheat that has fungicides on it to prevent several bunt and smut funguses, which left unchecked, will eat the wheat right in their shells. The fungicides are stained red to prevent accidental poisoning. In fact, it's illegal here to plant seed that hasn't been treated as the government, and everyone else, for that matter, want to keep these dangerous diseases as eradicated as possible.

Answer 4

IF THE WHEAT HAS BEEN POLISHED IT'S UNLIKELY TO GERMINATE.WHEAT IS AN ANNUAL MEANING YOU MUST REPLANT EACH YEAR. ACTUALLY THERE IS WINTER WHEAT AND SPRING WHEAT. AND YES ANY HERBIVOROUS ANIMAL WOULD LOVE TO NIBBLE ON WHEAT. AND BIRDS WHEN THE WHEAT HAS RIPENED. WHEAT IS PLANTED WITH A MACHINE CALLED A DRILL IT CAN ALSO BE FLOWN ON OR SCATTERED BY HAND.

Answer 5

yes ,yes, yes.