Purple pearl barley. 1/
This is more than 1/2 my harvest in a 1x2ft space. I won’t grow it again. For the space it takes up and time it takes to grow, it barely makes one serving.
I used normal home compost for fert and it was grown next to beans. My veg need to perform well with this for me to consider replanting and these did not.
2/ I tried the still plumply hydrated seeds raw and and they didn’t taste like much. Faint barley with a little bit of raw peanut flavor. They taste better cooked.
@jblue They’re very pretty. 
@SunnJax yes they are 
but I don’t have enough space to make it worth while growing.
@jblue also, just one of those awns up the nose of some poor critter, and it's a desperate situation with an expensive solution. 
@deepmud the area they’re in is really well fenced and I don’t have any pets. The only danger is them getting eaten by birds and I lost two barley heads already.
@jblue very glad to hear it!