rice

rice is pretty easy to grow and gets you big harvests,
even if you don't have much room it works well,
you can grow it in 5 gallon buckets of a kiddy pool
here is my rice growing

I took an old kiddy pool and added about 4 inches of fallen tree leaves (to add nitrogen)
then added about 4 inches of the local dirt,
filled it up with water, 
then stuck the rice seeds in 

I should have put the seeds in first and then added the water as it is hard to keep track of where the seeds are under water...
but I later replanted the spots I missed

the goal is to put in the rice on 5 inch centers, or 2 inches apart if planting in a row,
and 6 to 12 plants total if you are using a 5 gallon bucket (you can make the soil deeper in a 5 gallon bucket than you can in a kiddy pool).

the neat thing about rice is that you can just flood the rice,
that makes it super easy to water, and you are not going to over water it,
and most weeds can't take being under water, so it is very little work to take care of,

I have been told that the 5 gallon bucket can get you 5 pounds of rice, I know it is productive, but not sure it is that high,
I will report back when mine is done,

there are 2 kinds of rice as far as were you can plant them,
one kind needs flooding,
the other can be grown in regular garden soil (they call this upland rice),
I planted the kind that does not need flooding
it is called blue bonnet,
rareseeds.com has it
http://www.rareseeds.com/rice-blue-bonnet/
it is a 120 day growing season kind
and they have another rice that needs flooded and is 150 days
it is carolina gold

there are other places that have other rices,
http://www.kitazawaseed.com/seeds_japanese_rice.html
 but I know nothing about them,
will have to look them up or grow them to find out

I know what you are thinking,
if you grow the rice you will need to take the hulls off before eating it,
and that sounds hard,
but here is an easy project to make a rice huller,
http://www.savingourseeds.org/pdf/grain_dehuller.pdf
and the rest of the website is also good
http://www.savingourseeds.org/

so start growing rice,
there is likely still time to start this year.

now time to fix the rototiller