Place the oat groat kernels and water in a large crock-pot. Turn the heat to low and allow it to cook for 7 hours. Once the 7 hours is up, remove the oat groats from your crock-pot and either eat them right away or place them in containers in your fridge.
How to oats grow?
You can grow oats in cool and dry climatic condition. The ideal temperature range to cultivate oats is between 15 to 25o Celsius. You can cultivate oats in nearly all types of soil. Field preparation for oats is similar to that of wheat. Use mould board or disc plough to deep plough your field. For raising grain crop sow 80 Kilograms of oats seeds per hectare, and for fodder crop, sow 100 Kilograms of seeds per hectare. To avoid any damage, treating seeds to prevent fungi and bacteria is necessary. You can treat seeds by Captan or Thiram @3 grams per Kilogram.
Oats are a nutrient-rich grain that makes a wonderful meal not only for humans but also for livestock. Oats are a hardy grain and easy to grow. Growing Oats at home is also a great idea since Oats are an excellent source of manganese, molybdenum, phosphorus, and copper.
What soil type do oats need to grow?
Oats grow best in black and grey wooded soil zones that have higher moisture but grow on sandy loam to heavy clay soils as long as they have good drainage. Popular varieties of Oats Weston-11 – Plants have a height of about 150 cm and grains are long and amber in color.
When is the best time to plant oats?
Walk over each row to push the seeds down. If your soil has a high clay content, avoid walking over it so it doesn’t get too compacted. Don’t walk over your soil when it’s wet. If your soil is wet or easily compacted, you can lay a wooden board over it and walk across the board instead of walking directly on the soil.