BYC Café

[Sally PB]

We got a generous inch and a half of rain! We might get more tonight. The big slurping sound I hear is the plants and trees sucking it up. Happy plants.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafè. Coffee is ready.
Today is the last day of the heavy, humid high temps. It will be more tolerable for several days.
Sis and I are going to visit a former patient of hers that has a sizable blueberry patch to pick our fill. I also plan to start working on finishing my screened in room on the deck this weekend.

 

[Sally PB]

We got nearly 2" of rain yesterday. I will be weeding the garlic bed I emptied a couple days ago and planting buckwheat.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Good morning and thanks for the coffee!
Buckwheat for a cover crop or do you actually harvest it?
I am off to babysit the grandkids. Let's hope the coffee and cobbler can keep up!
Enjoy the day, Cafe!

 

[sourland]

Good morning, and thanks for the coffee.

 

[SkyAJK]

Good Morning,

Thank you for the nice hot coffee, first cup at the moment. Today the weather isn't that cold, yesterday during the day it was almost like summer day, except there is no smell of summer.

I love summer, it has this sun sweet smell.

Have a wonderful day.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Cafe been a few weeks since a good rain here.
This is a dryer month for us.
light t shirt and no socks day.
Spend good part of the day caring for Richard.
Better than loosing him, Day starts early get few things done.
Creature of habit on the phone again.

 

[Sally PB]

Buckwheat for a cover crop or do you actually harvest it?

No, it's just for the weed suppression. It sprouts quickly and has decent sized leaves right away, shading out the weeds that sprout underneath it.

I plan to leave it until frost kills it. If it flowers, so much the better! Honey bees like it.

I'm thinking I might do a patch every year, and rotate where that is. One year, I did three courses of buckwheat in one part of my garden. When it flowered, I took it down with a string trimmer and left it sit for a couple weeks. (We didn't have bees back then.) I did two more plantings. There were VERY few weeds in that part of the garden the next spring.

Buckwheat does not fix nitrogen, but it does add plant matter to the soil.

 

[SkyAJK]

No, it's just for the weed suppression. It sprouts quickly and has decent sized leaves right away, shading out the weeds that sprout underneath it.

I plan to leave it until frost kills it. If it flowers, so much the better! Honey bees like it.

I'm thinking I might do a patch every year, and rotate where that is. One year, I did three courses of buckwheat in one part of my garden. When it flowered, I took it down with a string trimmer and left it sit for a couple weeks. (We didn't have bees back then.) I did two more plantings. There were VERY few weeds in that part of the garden the next spring.

Buckwheat does not fix nitrogen, but it does add plant matter to the soil.

Do chickens pick at the seeds on the buckwheat plants?

 

[Sally PB]

Do chickens pick at the seeds on the buckwheat plants?

I have no idea. My chickens don't get to go into my garden.

Their coop/run is several hundred feet away, and I don't free range.