BUILD YOUR SOIL and ATTRACT BEES with this AMAZING COVER CROP!
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Buckwheat is a great warm-weather cover crop to use as a transition crop between spring and fall crops. It's great for bees, builds organic matter and even scavenges phosphorous.
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Planted mine 2 weeks ago and man it’s a grower! I’m assuming it’s an annual? So I’ll need to plant on the yearly? Just doing it for deer and my honey bees. Thanks!!
It's an annual, but can reseed if not turned under soon enough and allowed to go to seed. You mentioned you're growing it for the deer and bees. I'd love to grow buckwheat, but found I need a deer solution or I'm wasting my time and money. I naively thought the deer would wait to eat the seed after it had flowered for the bees. But the deer here in western Maryland started hammering the young tender greens not long after emergence. Severely stunted the growth of the entire field, but I have to say the bees were all over what little did manage to flower. Let me know if you have a deer solution I'm unaware of. I can't afford to fence my half acre. :)
Hi, Greg. Thanks for the pointers on buckwheat. I'd love to grow buckwheat, but found I need a deer solution or I'm wasting my time and money. I naively thought the deer would wait to eat the seed well after it had flowered for the bees. But the deer here in western Maryland started hammering the young tender greens not long after emergence. I see fence posts around your 1,000 sq.ft. buckwheat plot in the video. Can I assume you have a fence in place to keep the deer out? I can't afford to fence my half acre plot. :)
We do not have that big of deer problem. The fence was to keep our horses out.
Just got my bag in 7-1-2023! Hope it’s okay .. it was bagged 10-2022……
Update. It’s a grower!!
Thsnks Greg good info.
Thanks for watching Gary!
@@gardeningwithhoss I always watch your show and the row by row show and the 2 minute tip the only shows I watch
Great video. I plan to use buckwheat for all of the reasons Greg articulated, pollenators, weed suppression, and adding organic matter.
And it will gladly do all of those things for you!
Good stuff Greg thanks.
You bet Joel!
Good tip Greg! Got some buckwheat about to start flowering in a small, new plot. I actually managed to let some go to seed last year without much reseeding, so I could save them. It's fixing to get turned in for melons! Just for the record, mice LOVE buckwheat seed, don't ask me how I know, just rest assured that I'm saving my seed in Mason Jars now.
We'll keep watching!
Did not know that about the mice. Time to get those melons planted!
@@gardeningwithhoss I don't know if they (mice) ate the seeds or just toted them off, like they are prone to do, let's just say I lost a good bit of seed to them! Yep, I should have had those melons in the ground. Can't imagine me being late on anything in the garden! It's a challenge when you live 45 miles away and only get to tend it on weekends!
Hmmm....I just might give this a try in parts of my garden this year! Thank's Greg!
Good idea. You can plant sections of it instead of planting the whole garden with it.
I have bees and did not know this! I’ll be ordering soon!!! Live in central MS so maybe late summer planting when the garden is finished❤️
That would be a great idea. Your bees will be thankful!
Thanks. I didn't know that you should let it flower and three weeks later chopped. Thought you should chopped before it flowers. ✌
The seeds don't mature until 3 weeks after flowering, so you've got a little bit of time.
@@gardeningwithhoss Thanks.
How long after yo cut and incorporate back into the soil before you can or should plant your next crop?
In the summer heat, it doesn't take long at all for it to decompose. Probably a week or so.
How long does it take to bloom
Usually around 40 days. It's a pretty fast crop.
I'm what way is buckwheat invasive? I'm in central Mississippi and have Cogan grass and it's invasive also. Very hard to kill!
If you let it go to seed after flowering, it's really persistent and will become a weed in the garden.
Great job Greg!
Thanks Larry!
Be careful with it going to seed as said. IMO do only 1 week flower. The seed will mature some even after the plant is cut
Certainly don't want to let it go to seed, because then it becomes a weed.
I love mine going to seed. I call it a great investment! It is so easily pulled if one would want to.
To each their own I guess :) I let it get away from me one year and boy did I regret that. Never again. I still have some coming up randomly 2 years later
@@fouroakfarm I plant mine for the soil and the cardinals so I like the "perennial quality of it":-)
Now go enjoy some cucumbers. Bahaha
Haha! We've got plenty to enjoy!
Buckwheat is a poor choice for soil building. Shallow root system and low biomass production are just two reasons.
We like to rotate buckwheat (a dicot) with sorghum sudangrass or millet (monocots). Studies have shown that rotating monocot and dicot cover crops provides a better mycorrhizal diversity in the soil.
Sunn hemp planted along with buckwheat baby yeahhhhh