Has it ever happened that for absolutely incomprehensible reasons nothing grew on the bed, but if it grew, the harvest turned out to be meager? Most likely, the soil simply asks to feed it or restore it a little. Fertilizers and crop rotation are two effective methods, but there is another much easier. Cultivation of buckwheat as a siderata allows not only to solve the problem with weeds, but also to allow the soil to gain strength.
Growing buckwheat
This culture is absolutely not afraid of even a very severe drought and is worthy of it. But with frosts things are different. The slightest cooling can completely ruin the planting. That is why the recommended dates for buckwheat sowing for each region are slightly different, but fall for a period when frosts are not exactly dangerous. Usually this is the second half of May - the beginning of June.
The unique and at the same time invaluable benefit from cultivation is the possibility of buckwheat without problems to grow even on those plots where it was not possible to grow absolutely nothing. Cultivate this culture is recommended on soils of poor and heavy. If you have a small garden instead of beds, it should be planted between trees. But as soon as the flowering period begins, they all mow down or are buried in the ground.
According to the recommendations, buckwheat grass is used for three purposes:
- When the soil is completely unsuitable for erection, it is enlivened. At the very end of spring, grass is sown, immediately after the beginning of flowering, it is embedded in the soil. Then the procedure is repeated twice in summer and early autumn. The last landing is not touched and just give it a freeze. For the second season the soil is superficially loosened and it is ready for work.
- The method of planting buckwheat grass from the first point is an excellent solution if the task is to get rid of wheat grass. The difference will be only in the norm of seeding: if it is for soil enrichment - 7 g / m², if the sowing of buckwheat for control of weeds - 12 g / m².
- And finally, for beginner beekeepers buckwheat will also be useful, but not as a siderat, but as an excellent honeycomb.