Seed bank

Barley seeds

saved by shiny · 2026-10-11

The packet

Variety: not specified
Batch number: not specified
Quantity: not specified seeds
When to sow: not specified
How to sow: not specified
Germination: unknown days
Days until maturity: unknown days
Row spacing: not specified cm
Plant before: 2025
Heirloom or hybrid: Unknown
Organic: Unknown
GMO: Unknown
Year saved: Unknown
Will trade: nowhere (from Wellington, NZ)

From the packet

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BARLEY
Masan Naked
reservation Packet
OS Heritag: : (Avena sativa)
Description. Spring growth habit 6 row naked food
barley fro, apan, black purple seeds. Very ‘igh % of
hulless ex* . sit food grain crop, and carbon crop
Sowing: Scatter sow into trays early October. Trans-
plant into beus when 5-8cm high at 10cm diagona: spac-
ing. Harvest when seed begins falling and mature in
green house before harvesting and winnowing, or scatter
sow seed over 10m? early October. Rake in, cover with
bird netting . ti’ S5cm high. Remove netting.
Approx 120 encugh to plant + sqm Biointensive bed at 19 cm
spacing
Batch number: FOvG0029
Sow by: June 2025
Organics’ y grown in NZ, especially for twome gar-
dens, tate, nutrition and disease resis ance,
Frorn our Past, for our Future.

Notes

masan naked

A “folk-level” food barley, Masan Naked 1, is 6-rowed and hulless. Beautiful awned heads adorn vigorous tillers that thresh to yield black-purple grains. Traditionally planted in the Spring. Rare.