As a suggestion for the oats - grow them in a window box ;-) When
I was a child I used to eat the raw oats straight from the plant
while they were green [as well as sweet corn right from the cob
in the field, and peas shelled right off the vines ;-)]

I would think that with 2 or 3 window boxes, rotating plantings
you could get a window box full every month or so pretty much all
year long [inside during the winter ]
margali
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> I love oats though. Oh, is anyone here in the Philadelphia area. I
> have two bags, 50 whopping pounds each, of unhulled oats and unhulled barley. I
> got them hoping that I could eat them. The barley is edible, though the
> hulls annoy me and the oats are fully inedible(you'd be chewing hard
> and forever to break them up and even then you probably couldn't chew
> them up completely.