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How to Grow Buckwheat

By Annie

If you've ever wondered How to Grow Buckwheat to improve your crop rotations, this post contains all the information you could need to get started! Learn how to grow it, when and where, and the best way to use it in your vegetable garden or yard. What is Buckwheat? Common buckwheat is a very fast growing grain originally native to central Asia. Part of the Polygonaceae or "knotweed" … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cover Crops/Green Manure Tagged With: buckwheat, cover crop, green manure, soil improvement

Getting the Yard Ready for Winter – Part 2 The Garden

By Annie

During the Spring and Summer months, we were busy with planting seeds, transplanting seedlings, weeding, irrigating, weeding again, thinning, more weeding and finally harvesting vegetables and fruits. Our Vegetable and Berry Gardens have given us a fantastic harvest, even though the weather this year was mostly cool and quite rainy. Sure we had two or three weeks of Summer, but gorgeous … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cover Crops/Green Manure, Fall Tagged With: buckwheat, Soil

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