GA: Sowed buckwheat in a couple of spots

Sowed buckwheat at (a) the NW former potato bed (which was emptied out a week or so ago), and (b) the SW onion bed (which was also emptied out recently).

We'll see how much it grows before frost comes.

GA: Final (likely) seeds sowed: A few pre-sprouted watermelon, butternut, and watermelon; and buckwheat throughout the squash patch

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GA: Buckwheat coming up; sowed more buckwheat to fill in gaps

The buckwheat is coming up nicely, but quite a few large gaps.  So, to fill them in, I just used the little hand-"rake" to scratch up the soil, scattered seeds, hand-raked over to mix them in, and watered.

GA: Buckwheat south bed sowed

 Sowed buckwheat all along the south end of the plot -- so that's 3 feet by roughly 21 feet.

Didn't add any amendments at all.  Just loosed the soil, raked it smoothish, scattered the seeds, raked it again, and watered it.

Buckwheat sowed

Sowed buckwheat in the east half of the central bed.  All I did was rake up the top layer of soil (didn't do any digging), then scatter the seed, then rake around a bit, then water it.  Didn't protect it with anything to keep it safe from critters -- so we'll see how it does.

Buckwheat sowed in front of fence (removed bleeding heart)

Just scattered the seed on top, gently "raked" it a bit with my fingers and that's it.  Didn't water it, will let that happen when it happens.

Bush beans and buckwheat sowed where broccoli used to be

The bush beans:  The SW corner is mostly the white bush beans; east of those are the brown-speckled bush beans.  And the top-most line along the section is all the brown-speckled beans.

Buckwheat is just scattered on the top of the soil along the north part of this patch.

Volunteer buckwheat started flowering a few days ago

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Buckwheat self-sprouting up all over -- yay!

From last year's plantings!  Neat.

All fall broccoli a flop; pulled the one remaining flop of a plant and sowed buckwheat

Yeah, that one last plant was definitely getting nibbled at by something and was totally failing to thrive.  So, pulled it and instead sowed a bunch of buckwheat, straight from the jar, then covered lightly in soil and then with a plastic sheet.

Next year for a fall broccoli, start then in containers (with a way to also cover with floating row cover, or tulle since at that point would be small / not touching the tulle), then transplant to ground once nice and sturdy.

Another round of buckwheat sown

In the NE part where the store-bought basil and part of the carrots were.  (Amended this part of the bed today with alfalfa pellets (pre-soaked), pulled basil, and pulled carrot tops.)

The buckwheat was sown straight from the storage jar (not pre-soaked or anything).  Coveredish lightly with soil, then with clear plastic.

Sowed buckwheat in north bed, imm south of vertical structure

Pre-soaked in water for ~24 hours, then thickly sowed (1/2 cup of seeds!!).  Covered with soil, then watered, then covered with clear plastic.

This is the first time I didn't do any pre-sprouting in PT -- figured it's worth a try.

Buckwheat: Another round started in PT

Will go in the bare part of the potato patch and maybe a few here and there to fill in gaps.

Harvested rest of round 1 buckwheat

About a week ago I had harvested 1/3rd of the round 1 buckwheat; today I harvested the rest.  I did it by cutting near the base of the stem, and left the roots and a bit of stem in the ground, because I read somewhere that you can get a second crop if you leave them in (??).  All of the round 1 buckwheat harvest went to the two northmost zukes in the west bed, by placing on top of the soil.

Transplanted more PT buckwheat -- this time into NE corner of central bed, by pulling kale but leaving roots

Cleared out most of the NE central bed's kale, and some of the chards, mostly by chopping them down to just the stem poking out (to let the roots decompose in place, and also to see if they re-grow).  Then transplanted the PT-sprouted buckwheat in amongst the kale stems.

Buckwheat round 1 started flowering a few days ago

I'll keep the plants up for a while, let the flowers hopefully attract more insects.

Buckwheat round 3 (?) started in PT

The round 2 in the hydro bed I think got dried out and may have died before they emerged after transplanting from the PT.

So, started round 3 today in PT.

Buckwheat from R's had low germination rate

Hmmm, the "round 2" buckwheat which was the first time using the seed from R's had a low germination rate in paper towel, maybe roughly ballpark approximately 50-60%?  Hopefully it was a problem on my end.

Buckwheat round #2 , part 1 sowed in wild hydro bed (no-dig); other seeds (part 2) haven't germinated yet

Buckwheat round 2 started in PT

~3/4 Tbsp of seed from R's.