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Grains (including barley, oats, and rye) Planting Calculator

including barley, oats, and rye

Everything you need to plan Grains (including barley, oats, and rye): recommended spacing, how many plants and seeds you'll need, when to start, and when to expect blooms. Defaults come from grower references and every value is editable.

At a glance

Recommended spacing
6″
Planting pattern
Intensive bed
Time to first production
70 days from sowing
Succession planting
Recommended
Every 14 days
Start indoors
3 weeks before
before last frost
Production pattern
One-hit producer

Plan your Grains (including barley, oats, and rye) beds

Prefilled with Grains (including barley, oats, and rye)'s recommended spacing. Adjust your bed size to get plant counts, seeds to start, and tray requirements.

Loads recommended spacing and planting pattern. You can override anything.
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Default 6″Range null–null″

Your plan

700
Total plants
Based on 3.5 plants/sq ft at 6″ spacing
Seeds to start (10% buffer)
771
72-cell trays needed
11
128-cell trays needed
7

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Planning notes

  • Landscape fabric

One-hit producer. A planting gives a concentrated harvest over a short window, so more frequent successive plantings are used to keep a continuous supply.

  • This crop can be direct sown.
  • Landscape fabric is commonly used for spacing and weed control.

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