🌾 Buckwheat Planting Guide

(Fast-growing cover crop + pollinator favorite)

🌱 Planting Time

• Spring through late summer
• Avoid frost (very sensitive)

🌿 Soil Requirements

• pH: 5.5–7.0
• Thrives in poor soils
• Excellent for improving soil health

🌱 Planting Instructions

• Broadcast or plant ½–1 inch deep
• Spacing:
  • Broadcast thickly or
  • 2–3 inches between plants

💧 Watering

• Light watering until established
• Fairly drought-tolerant after

🌾 Fertilizer

• Does NOT need fertilizer
• Too much fertility reduces flowering

⏱️ Harvest / Use

• 30–45 days to flower
• 70–90 days for seed
• Great as:
  • Pollinator plant 🐝
  • Soil builder
  • Weed suppressor