Seed bank

Barley seeds

saved by shiny · 2026-10-11

non-certified organic heirloom

The packet

Variety: Os Heritage (Hordeum vulgare)
Batch number: not specified
Quantity: 100 seeds
When to sow: Mar–May
How to sow: not specified
Germination: unknown days
Days until maturity: unknown days
Row spacing: not specified cm
Plant before: 2026
Heirloom or hybrid: Heirloom
Organic: Non-certified organic
GMO: Unknown
Year saved: Unknown
Will trade: nowhere (from Wellington, NZ)

From the packet

Our attempt to read the packet

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BARLEY
Karan - 19
Os Heritage (Hordeum vulgare)
Description: Star performer in the KUSA trials, this one
has semi dwarf Stature. Successful under limited water
and inputs and drylands. 115-119 days to Maturity. 14%
kernel protein. We have found them to be easy to grow
and cover from the birds.
Sowing: Sow either late Autumn or early Spring,
depending what works best-in your climate. Scatter SOW
Seeds into a 1/2 bed, chop in with a rake and cover with
bird netting till 2em high, then remove netting.
Approx: 120, enough to piant 1 M2 of bio intensive bed at
10cm diagona} SPpacing's.
Batch number: HOvGo023
Sow by: August 2026
Organically Grown in NZ, ©Specially for home gardens,
taste, nutrition and disease resistance.
From our Past, for our Future.
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