Proso Millet ((Paniceae) Panicum miliaceum)
Proso millet is a grass that grows to about 120 cm tall. The small seeds are in a broom-shaped panicle that is 10-25 cm long. The grains are 2-3 mm in diameter and are surrounded by thin glumes that must be removed by threshing. The colour varies in different varieties: white, yellow, brown, red, purple.
The grains are used as food or fodder.
Pros millet is not grown commercially in northern Europe. However, it is possible to grow it here. In small scale growing it is useful for late sowings of patches where the planned crop for some reason did not survive.
Proso millet is also used as an ornamental crop.
Proso millet is drought tolerant. However, it is frost tender and can thus not be sown too early. Often it will self-seed in your garden, since the seeds survive the winter.
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