teff grass

I am trying teff and had to wait until we had a big rain for it to finally germinate. It is competing with Johnson grass-- which is fine, but the Johnson grass is patchy and we're trying to fill in the gaps.
The teff is coming up and looks beautiful. We've found the cattle will eventually eat what you have if that if all there is. Of course, alfalfa is always a favorite. 😊

Hi, Rachel, welcome to the forum!

I had not heard of teff grass even though I am fairly familiar with Texas Native grasses so I looked it up.

Eragrostis tef, also known as teff, Williams lovegrass or annual bunch grass, is an annual grass, a species of lovegrass native to the Horn of Africa, notably to modern-day Ethiopia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teff

Teff is a multipurpose crop which has a high importance for the Ethiopian diet and culture. In Ethiopia, teff provides two-thirds of the daily protein intake. It is not only important for human nutrition, but also as fodder for livestock, or as building material

Are you growing it to process into flour or as animal fodder?

How is it competing with that johnson grass?

Yum, I love teff flour. What area are you in? I don't suspect it would do well where I'm at, but I wouldn't hate having it around for making injera.

As I found this post I was eating scallion biscuits made of teff flour I ground myself topped by a mushroom gravy, coupled with a single origin Ethiopian espresso.

I love teff's flavor and especially texture, I think it has this unique grainy yet airy and cloud-like characteristic. I can't quite figure it out but anything I bake with it I absolutely love.

I put a bundle of brown rice in a small pot as a test, I got some sprouts but I think it's quite a bit too dry here even though we just got the biggest torrential downpour in probably months as I was enjoying my coffee.

So I think I'm going to try growing some teff, I know the horses around here love the hay, being from Africa I imagine it's a bit more drought tolerant.

The Johnson grass is pretty well established, so this teff is basically growing with the Johnson, to fill in the gaps. It was our first time planting, so we did several areas just to see if it would take. We did it right before that big flooding rain, so it did germinate. We are now going back to the drought, so it is less green, but I took a picture of one area where it's growing.