Grow guide
How to grow Buckwheat (Cover)
Fagopyrum esculentum
- Type
- Buckwheat
- Zones
- USDA zones 3–10
- Sun
- Full
- Time to harvest
- 30–45 days
- Spacing
- 4″ apart
- Density
- 9 per sq ft
- Habit
- Upright
- Frost tolerance
- Tender
- Sowing
- Direct sow
- Start indoors
- 0 weeks before last frost
- Succession
- Every 21 days
Care
- Mow or till Once
- Water Minimal
Notes
Quick summer smother crop. Terminate at bloom before seed set.
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