Buckwheat in Bloom
August 31, 2012 § 4 Comments
I am pleased to have you know that I sowed this buckwheat.
Now it is doing its job: keeping the weeds down and providing nectar for the bees. I plan to sow a wildflower/prairie grass mix into this plot in the fall, to germinate the following spring. The buckwheat helps by suppressing the persistent weed species this year, so that the wildflowers will have a better chance when it becomes their turn (learn more about how this works here).
Isn’t that clever? And isn’t it nice that buckwheat, in addition to being useful, is so pretty?
Kinds of Honey 
LOVE the source on this one;) And I’m missing you terribly this week……..maybe its the moon pull..
Aw. I miss you (& co.) too . . . I find I’ve been referring to “the farm where I worked last year” a lot lately. Remembering farmers’ markets with coffee and rain and buckets of sunflowers.
so beautiful! Thanks! Cheers!
You’re welcome!