Are you planting the buckwheat just for looks? Also, how is your deer pressure? I've had to put electric fence around my field because they chomp the new growth of the sunflowers. I do plant buckwheat and sunflowers at the same time, The buckwheat keeps the weeds down until the sunflowers have a chance to mature. I don't do photos or sell anything. I just do it for my bees and fun and so a little bit different purpose than your business. Also, are you spreading out the timing of the sunflowers or are you okay with them all being up at once?
we plant buckwheat for looks, cover crop/weed suppression, and for the bees. Photographers like the white field. We don't want it to go to seed and become a weed which is why I don't mix it in with sunflowers. Throughout our property we've been working to improve soil. After decades of haying and grazing its pretty depleted. Last year was the first year I noticed heavy deer pressure. I planted them a little plot in another section of our property its a couple weeks ahead of everything else I hope they just pig out there and leave my other fields alone
Thank you for the detail on this!
How did the sunflowers turn out? Thanks for the nice informative video
Great. If you look up woods tree farm on FB and scroll back to July of this year you'll see photos from when we had our event.
Always informative thanks
Are you planting the buckwheat just for looks? Also, how is your deer pressure? I've had to put electric fence around my field because they chomp the new growth of the sunflowers. I do plant buckwheat and sunflowers at the same time, The buckwheat keeps the weeds down until the sunflowers have a chance to mature. I don't do photos or sell anything. I just do it for my bees and fun and so a little bit different purpose than your business. Also, are you spreading out the timing of the sunflowers or are you okay with them all being up at once?
we plant buckwheat for looks, cover crop/weed suppression, and for the bees. Photographers like the white field. We don't want it to go to seed and become a weed which is why I don't mix it in with sunflowers. Throughout our property we've been working to improve soil. After decades of haying and grazing its pretty depleted. Last year was the first year I noticed heavy deer pressure. I planted them a little plot in another section of our property its a couple weeks ahead of everything else I hope they just pig out there and leave my other fields alone
How do you control the weeds between rows or do you let the sunflowers grow and they shade out the weeds.. or do you cultivate?