Buckwheat

Buckwheat, purchasing it in the store, we do not even think about how it is grown, harvested and what it goes through about how it gets on the shelves.

Buckwheat plant: description

Blooming buckwheat: plant photo

Buckwheat is a herbaceous plant from the buckwheat family. The culture is grain and melliferous. It is very useful to eat it, because it will help: remove radionucleides, increase muscle mass, normalize metabolism, and so on.

How does buckwheat bloom?

Buckwheat: video about planting a plantBuckwheat is an annual sowing plant. The root system is a main shaft with lateral branches. It is rather poorly developed. The functionality of the upper part of the plant is to absorb useful elements from the soil, and the lower one in liquid nutrition. Their development, roots continue the entire period of the life of culture. The trunk of the bush is branched, slightly curved, can reach one hundred centimeters in height and centimeters in thickness, at the same time combines two colors from different sides: bright green and burgundy brown. The inflorescences are collected together, the main color is white, sometimes it can be pale pink, their unusual smell, perfectly attracts pollinators. The foliage is very diverse. Ripe fruit, in the tetrahedron fort. The color of the fruit can be: deep black, brown and gray. The size of the yield depends on the variety and the growing conditions. The seed itself is covered with a strong crust, but it can be easily removed.

Soil preparation for buckwheat

Blooming buckwheat: plant photo

Buckwheat harvest size will depend on weather and soil conditions. Buckwheat can grow anywhere, but it is best suited for well-warmed, rich lands that are saturated with oxygen and not particularly acidic. You can cultivate the land for buckwheat in different ways, this is influenced by the weather and past plantings. Since this crop is sown late, the main purpose of the treatment will be the greatest preservation of moisture, which will provoke the emergence of weeds even before sowing. Fertilizing the soil will be a beneficial factor for the future harvest.

Top dressing should contain: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium elements. During plowing or sowing crops in the fall, you need to apply fertilizers with phosphorus and potassium, and in the spring and during cultivation, fertilizing with nitrogen is suitable. Also, nitrogen fertilizers are best given at a time when buds begin to form, this will help the future harvest:

• Raise the mass;
• Convert the chemical composition.

You can also fertilize buckwheat with organic matter, because it contains: manganese, zinc, copper and boron, which is very important for culture. It is also important to remember that fertilizers that contain chlorine should be used very carefully, only if necessary, because this plant does not react very well to them.

After what crops can and cannot be sown buckwheat

Blooming buckwheat: plant photo

This is a very important part, because buckwheat is sown late. She will feel great in the place where they grew before her: rye, wheat, soybeans, beans, lentils, chickpeas, peas, corn, sunflowers, potatoes, beets. Plant after: barley and oats, because after forage crops, the soil is very heavily contaminated with weeds. So, for example, the yield of buckwheat will increase by so much:

• Followed by clover by forty-one percent;
• Following the peas by twenty ten percent;
• Followed by potatoes by twenty-five percent;
• Followed by rye by fifteen percent.

And after barley it will go down by sixteen percent, and after oats by twenty one percent. Since buckwheat is a phytosanitary crop, it helps to protect the next crops from root rot. This is due to its root system, which lowers the density of the soil.

Buckwheat seeds

Buckwheat seeds: photo

Choosing the right variety and carefully preparing the seeds will greatly affect the future harvest. Preliminary preparation will help prevent diseases and increase germination.

Optimal time for sowing

Sowing is necessary when you are already sure that there will be no more frost, and the soil itself is warmed up by ten to twelve degrees. The sowing depth should be ten centimeters. Sowing this crop is recommended in late spring.

Sowing buckwheat

Sowing buckwheat: training videoSoils for sowing buckwheat must be prepared in advance, namely, plowed and cultivated by rolling a smooth roller. The number of seeds for sowing depends mainly on weather conditions, soil moisture, the nature of the soil and the characteristics of the seed. Planting depth is very important. The sprouts and their root system are rather weak, it is quite difficult for them to crawl out of the layer of dense soil. Based on these data, it is necessary to sow into wet soil at an equal depth. On very dense soil, this should be done in four to five centimeters, on cultivated soil five to six centimeters, on dry eight to ten centimeters.

Buckwheat: care

Blooming buckwheat: plant photo

In this matter, the moisture content of the soil and the rolling capacity of the sowing are very important. Weeds must be destroyed in a timely manner. Even before the sprouts appear, harrowing must be carried out. In order for the culture to grow and develop better, the rows between it need to be loosened. It is also important that pollinating insects have access to the plant, because buckwheat is eighty to ninety five percent pollinated by bees.

How to harvest correctly

Buckwheat is harvested when it is already seventy-five to eighty percent ripe. They collect it in about four to five days. The stems are cut fifteen to twenty centimeters. Then she is given three to five days to dry out.

Buckwheat: storage

Buckwheat seeds: photo

Harvest processing has long been automated, it goes through three stages. In order for the crop to be well stored, it must be dried so that only fifteen percent of the moisture remains in it. Planting material is stored in fabric bags with minimal air humidity. The part that is intended for food is taken to large-scale processing enterprises. There the grain is cleaned, processed, cleaned, washed and separated.