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  • From: "Foss _" <old_growth@hotmail.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] walking away/mulching
  • Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:27:34 +0000

>Sara in IN Wrote:

>Question on buckwheat -- how long after last frost date should it be planted? Last year we had a late frost that knocked out the first buckwheat planting and the second planting about 3 weeks later never did take off.

Here in Wisconsin we plant Buckwheat about same time as soybeans are going in.  It's more of a summer crop and wilts at the smell of frost.  I'm guessing the seeds of the second planting rotted during the winter.  

>What recommendations do you have on use of buckwheat as a cover crop ?

Don't let it go to seed, can become a pest quickly.

Jeff


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