Why is wheat not suitable for lawns?
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Both are grass, but their purposes are different. We breed them to select the best suited versions according to our desires.
Wheat grows that long and hard straw. It’s purpose is to produce food, and people are breeding it to maximize the output of grain. The robust straw helps with that, growing a taller plant that can reach out for sun and air more efficiently.
Lawn grass has other uses, and breeding has other goals. It looks more or less the same over the course of the year. It’s short, soft yet robust, grows thick etc.
Amount of rodents poorly kept lawn would bring into neighbourhood would be disastrous. Wheat can be also quite a bit higher than average lawn grass.
Both are grass, but their purposes are different. We breed them to select the best suited versions according to our desires.
Wheat grows that long and hard straw. It’s purpose is to produce food, and people are breeding it to maximize the output of grain. The robust straw helps with that, growing a taller plant that can reach out for sun and air more efficiently.
Lawn grass has other uses, and breeding has other goals. It looks more or less the same over the course of the year. It’s short, soft yet robust, grows thick etc.
Amount of rodents poorly kept lawn would bring into neighbourhood would be disastrous. Wheat can be also quite a bit higher than average lawn grass.
It grows very high and has a thick stem that is quite hard. That is not what is out of a lawn. You want something that is low and soft.
It might be possible to cut it so it never grows high stems and it might survive being walked on, the question is why you would use it, Wheat grows like that and will not produce the seeds we use as food. Grass grows tall and produces seeds if you leave it alone, You will not really see that on a lawn if you trim it because the grass never gets tall enough. Grass requires a lot less height than wheat.
This is the question of how it grows. Most wheat we have are annual, which means it grows from seed each year. There are some that are Perennial and live for more than two years, they just do that and regrow two times si live for three years.
So if you use wheat that you cut you need to replace the lawn very often. Grass that we typically use can grow there for decades, so it is a better choice than using wheat.
You could of course grow wheat and let it get tall instead of grass but it will no longer be a lawn
Amount of rodents poorly kept lawn would bring into neighbourhood would be disastrous. Wheat can be also quite a bit higher than average lawn grass.
It grows very high and has a thick stem that is quite hard. That is not what is out of a lawn. You want something that is low and soft.
It might be possible to cut it so it never grows high stems and it might survive being walked on, the question is why you would use it, Wheat grows like that and will not produce the seeds we use as food. Grass grows tall and produces seeds if you leave it alone, You will not really see that on a lawn if you trim it because the grass never gets tall enough. Grass requires a lot less height than wheat.
This is the question of how it grows. Most wheat we have are annual, which means it grows from seed each year. There are some that are Perennial and live for more than two years, they just do that and regrow two times si live for three years.
So if you use wheat that you cut you need to replace the lawn very often. Grass that we typically use can grow there for decades, so it is a better choice than using wheat.
You could of course grow wheat and let it get tall instead of grass but it will no longer be a lawn
Both are grass, but their purposes are different. We breed them to select the best suited versions according to our desires.
Wheat grows that long and hard straw. It’s purpose is to produce food, and people are breeding it to maximize the output of grain. The robust straw helps with that, growing a taller plant that can reach out for sun and air more efficiently.
Lawn grass has other uses, and breeding has other goals. It looks more or less the same over the course of the year. It’s short, soft yet robust, grows thick etc.
It grows very high and has a thick stem that is quite hard. That is not what is out of a lawn. You want something that is low and soft.
It might be possible to cut it so it never grows high stems and it might survive being walked on, the question is why you would use it, Wheat grows like that and will not produce the seeds we use as food. Grass grows tall and produces seeds if you leave it alone, You will not really see that on a lawn if you trim it because the grass never gets tall enough. Grass requires a lot less height than wheat.
This is the question of how it grows. Most wheat we have are annual, which means it grows from seed each year. There are some that are Perennial and live for more than two years, they just do that and regrow two times si live for three years.
So if you use wheat that you cut you need to replace the lawn very often. Grass that we typically use can grow there for decades, so it is a better choice than using wheat.
You could of course grow wheat and let it get tall instead of grass but it will no longer be a lawn
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