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  • From: "robbins hail" <robbinshail AT hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: [Market-farming] Buckwheat
  • Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:52:58 -0500


We've been using buckwheat a lot this summer. Got into a panic when the winter squash started vining into it so used a lawn roller to roll it down. Worked pretty well leaving a thick mulch. A month later though piweed is started to rear it's nasty (and thorny) head.

We broadcast the seed thickly and lightly till under.

Robbins Hail
South Central Missouri
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Today's Topics:

1. Buckwheat re-growth? (Steve Diver)
2. Re: Gray mini-critters on the Kale
(Mike Hulbert - Anna Carter - Creation Soap)
3. Buckwheat Questions (Jay Atkerson)
4. Re: Buckwheat re-growth? (Allan Balliett)
5. Re: Buckwheat Questions (JOHN A HENDRICKSON)
6. Re: Buckwheat Questions (Allan Balliett)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:30:07 -0500
From: Steve Diver <steved AT ncat.org>
Subject: [Market-farming] Buckwheat re-growth?
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I've got a buckwheat cover crop that is lush green
and starting to flower.

Can you cut buckwheat a few inches above
the ground -- letting the tops fall over as a mulch,
to encourage re-growth from the stems -- the same
way you can manage sorghum-sudan grass?

Steve Diver
Northwest Arkansas









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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 20:58:48 -0400
From: "Mike Hulbert - Anna Carter - Creation Soap"
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Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Gray mini-critters on the Kale
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Hi,
I was wondering what kind of remedies y'all might suggest for that gray
stuff that grows on the kale like lice or aphids or something.



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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:47:08 -0500
From: Jay Atkerson <jatkerso AT bowlinggreen.net>
Subject: [Market-farming] Buckwheat Questions
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I'm curious about the use of buckwheat and where it may be purchased.
Is it too late to sow buckwheat in South Central Kentucky (Zone 6B)?
Are there several varieties and is there one suggested for dual
use--honey bees and late fall cover crop that might help suppress
weeds? What is the sowing rate per acre? Does it start blooming in
about seventy days?

Jay Atkerson
Palisade Garden



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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 22:48:46 -0400
From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat re-growth?
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Steve - Isn't one of the charms of buckwheat cover that it's easy to
kill? In my experience, it only comes back from the seeds it may have
dropped...which takes a little longer.

Anywone know anything about 'buckwheat lettuce'?

Thanks -Allan

>I've got a buckwheat cover crop that is lush green
>and starting to flower.
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>Can you cut buckwheat a few inches above
>the ground -- letting the tops fall over as a mulch,
>to encourage re-growth from the stems -- the same
>way you can manage sorghum-sudan grass?
>
>Steve Diver
>Northwest Arkansas
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:23:26 -0500
From: JOHN A HENDRICKSON <jhendric AT wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat Questions
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It is certainly not too late to plant buckwheat. It germinates quickly
(3-5 days) and rapidly creates a dense canopy to keep weeds from
germinating. It is an excellent smother crop. It starts blooming and
reaches maturity in 70-90 days. According to the book Managing Cover
Crops Profitably (which I highly recommend), buckwheat will regrow if
clipped before it reaches 25% bloom. I've never tried that.

As far as I know, there are not different types but one standard variety.

Buckwheat does not make a good late fall cover crop because it is
extremely frost sensitive. It can, however, be used as a "nurse crop"
for slow starting winter hardy cover crops.

If you let it flower to have the blossoms available for bees, the
buckwheat will go to seed and it will re-seed itself. Some growers do
this intentionally and thereby get 2-3 successive buckwheat smother
crops during one season. My experience is that buckwheat does not may
an overly troublesome, long-term weed if you let it go to seed.

Sowing rates tyically range between 60 to 90 lbs per acre (3-4 oz/100
square feet). Use the higher end of this range to generate a quick
smother crop. The seed can be drilled (planted with a seed drill) or
broadcast and lightly harrowed.

Seed is widely available. Check with your local seed/feed store or look
on-line.

For additional information about cover crops for small-scale vegetable
farms, see:

http://www.cias.wisc.edu/archives/2003/09/01/cover_crops_on_the_intensive_market_farm/index.php

-John


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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 11:37:48 -0400
From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat Questions
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Good work, John!

Howabout the part about cut buckwheat being a 'mulch'? I never find
much volume to buckwheat, once cut and dehydrated. How about the rest
of you?

Thanks for giving the seeding rate by the acre and by the 'bed.' I'm
wondering how other people seed. I'm thinking of broadcasting and
tilling with the BCS. Does anyone know if this will put the buckwheat
too deep or if the tiller will destroy the seed?

Thanks again -Allan


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