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How to Grow Barley: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

A cool-season cereal sown in autumn and harvested in early summer, also grown in small plots as a winter cover crop.

Barley

Hordeum vulgare

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Sow / plantGrowingHarvest

Guides

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (62)

Powdery MildewBrown Leaf SpotCitrus MelanoseRoot-knot NematodeGray MoldBacterial SpotLeaf SpotRing RotRice BlastCulm BlightBlack-streaked DwarfNorthern Corn Leaf BlightBuntZonate Leaf SpotCyst NematodeMid-leaf Blight DisorderNorthern Cereal MosaicCovered SmutBarley Leaf RustHeart Blight DisorderStripe MosaicLeaf StripeLeaf StreakCrown RotPlant-parasitic NematodesWhite Leaf SpotWhite Stripe DisorderNeck Rot of PanicleFusarium Wilt and Damping-offSeed Gall NematodePink Wilt DisorderPink Snow MoldSheath BlightNet BlotchYellow Mosaic Stripe DwarfStem NematodeBrown Blotch DisorderStunt DiseaseLeaf ScorchLoose SmutBacterial Brown SpotAscochyta BlightBrown Streak Yellows DisorderBrown Snow RotAngular Leaf SpotFusarium Head BlightFusarium Head Blight-like DisorderPink GrainCopper DeficiencySnow ScaldSpeckled Snow MoldScaldErgotYellow RustYellow DwarfYellow BlightBarley Yellow DwarfYellow LeafBlack RustBlack ChaffBlackening DiseaseBlack Node

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Keep a growing history for Barley

Type the plant name, add the planting date, and take photos as it grows. Next season you will have your own dates for sowing, flowering, and harvest instead of a generic calendar.

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