See the plants native habitat for ideas on its cultivation needs. This species is a weed of cultivated cereals and can harbour pests common to cultivated crops.

Seed - cooked. It can be used whole like millet, but is more usually ground into a flour and used with other cereals in making bread etc. The seed is small and fiddly, it is very much a famine food.

Seed - we have no details for this species but suggest sowing the seed in situ in April and only just covering it.

Wet meadows and the edges of ponds and ditches.