How to Grow Foxtail Millet: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

Setaria italica

Growing calendar

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

Guides

• Sowing Foxtail Millet: Soil Temperature, Depth, Seeding Rate and Catch-Crop Timing
• Foxtail Millet Care: Watering a Shallow-Rooted Grain, Nitrogen Limits and Preventing Lodging
• Foxtail Millet Growing Calendar: Sowing to Harvest in Under Three Months
• Foxtail Millet Problems: Birds, Lodging, Smut, Rust and Volunteer Seedlings
• Harvesting Foxtail Millet: Reading the Nodding Head, Cutting, Threshing and the Hulling Problem

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (27)

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.