Buckwheat

jlane35

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Our buckwheat is now at 5 weeks old. From what I’m reading I have 2 more weeks to terminate it before it goes to seed and then have another crop of buckwheat which will outcompete my fall plantings. Is that correct or am I fine letting it go until August, then mowing the buckwheat on top of my broadcasted fall plot seed.
 
Buckwheat is not that competitive, a little bit of reseeding with your fall crop will be great. Reseeding won't outcompete your fall plantings and I would not worry about it I would just let it expire. I wish buckwheat were this competitive, where you could plant a crop and it would just continue on its own.
 
Buckwheat is not that competitive, a little bit of reseeding with your fall crop will be great. Reseeding won't outcompete your fall plantings and I would not worry about it I would just let it expire. I wish buckwheat were this competitive, where you could plant a crop and it would just continue on its own.

I agree with this. I wouldn’t hesitate to even throw and mow a fall planting. If I had some, I’d plant t today and throw and mow red clover/rye oats into it Labor Day weekend.
 
I don’t mean to sound negative but your planting time is pretty early for those varieties. Assuming you would plant In 2-3 wks from now. What I would do is let the buckwheat die on its own and reseed into your plot more buckwheat. Add buckwheat at 40% the normal rate that should get you mid August. Then sow in next crop, then crimp or mow buckwheat assuming you have limited weed competition.


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I don’t mean to sound negative but your planting time is pretty early for those varieties. Assuming you would plant In 2-3 wks from now. What I would do is let the buckwheat die on its own and reseed into your plot more buckwheat. Add buckwheat at 40% the normal rate that should get you mid August. Then sow in next crop, then crimp or mow buckwheat assuming you have limited weed competition.


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I wasn’t planning on planting the fall plots in 2 weeks, I just thought I had 2 weeks to kill the buckwheat before it reseeds itself.

I’ve never planted cover crops before only “kill” plots so I need to work on my timing and process of year round plots.
 
I wasn’t planning on planting the fall plots in 2 weeks, I just thought I had 2 weeks to kill the buckwheat before it reseeds itself.

I’ve never planted cover crops before only “kill” plots so I need to work on my timing and process of year round plots.

Trust me I’m always learning. Consider the living lifecycle of your plants In this sequence. Try what I suggested with the goal of planting your fall plot (that combo you suggested) sometime in August (mid August for areas north of 40 degrees latitude).


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I don’t mean to sound negative but your planting time is pretty early for those varieties. Assuming you would plant In 2-3 wks from now. What I would do is let the buckwheat die on its own and reseed into your plot more buckwheat. Add buckwheat at 40% the normal rate that should get you mid August. Then sow in next crop, then crimp or mow buckwheat assuming you have limited weed competition.


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So should I just broadcast the seed or should I disc then broadcast and cultipack again?
 
I’ve done it a few ways. If it’s super thick I’ve disced, Sowed and cultipacked. I’ve also sowed and crimped. If you can catch the rain right the option of crimp, roll or just broadcast works. The simplest option is just to put seed down just before the rain at the same time the buckwheat has formed seed that is dropping. I’ve never mowed it at that point but if you could get the mower up high enough on a brush cutter I’d consider doing that but probably my last prefer option.

Like to hear others POV.

You may want to add a combination of oats and buckwheat... Add the seed, roll or crimp July 1 that would hit the sweet spot of just before end of august for your next crop.... never touching the soil


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