Common Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) organic seeds
- Undemanding pseudocereal and green manure.
- Contents: Approx. 1300 seeds
- Open-pollinated variety, seed tested regularly
€2.39
Description
By the cultivation of potatoes, common buckwheat as a food plant has been upstaged more and more. Only now, it's grown more and more again as increasingly more people devote themselves to a healthy and whole-food diet.
Common buckwheat is no corn and not related to wheat but belongs to the knotweed family.
Common buckwheat is an excellent honey plant and provides very high honey yields.
What many don't know - common buckwheat can also be eaten uncooked but should, for that reason, be germed. Like that, with its high protein content, it's a great addition to cereal.
On top of that, common buckwheat doesn't contain gluten what makes it interesting to people with gluten intolerance.
The content suffices approx. 5-10m².
Plant profile
| Plant type | Summer flower, Wildflower |
|---|---|
| Use | Green manure, Vegetable |
| Lifecycle | Annual |
| Species | Polygonaceae |
| Region of origin | Asia |
| Characteristics | Food for bees |
| Eventual height | 20-60 cm |
| Flower colour | White |
| Flowering months | August, July, October, September |
| Main harvest | August, September |
| Winter hardiness zones | 11 (4 bis 10 °C) |
Growing instructions
| When to sow outdoors | July, June, May |
|---|---|
| Sowing depth | 1-3 cm |
| Germination temperature | 10-18°C |
| Climate | Temperate |
| Soil type | Free-draining, Fresh, Low in chalk, Low nutrient levels |
| Sunlight | Full sun |
| Water requirement | Medium |
| Planting distance | 15 cm |
| Row spacing | 15 cm |
Sowing and care
Other names
Botanical name: Fagopyrum esculentum
German: Echter Buchweizen
English: Common Buckwheat
French: Sarrasin
Spanish: alforfón, trigo sarraceno, trigo árabe, trigo cabruno, trigo-haya, trigo negro, trigo sarracénico, alforjón, fajol, grano turco, sarraceno
Login
lehmiger Boden, Mulch nicht so gut
Der Buchweizen wurde von mir Breitwürfig ausgesät. Der gelockerte Lehm Boden war bedeckt mit einer Mulch Schicht aus Stroh. Ähm ja was soll ich sagen, aus einer Tüte Saatgut.... ein, zwei Pflänzchen sind es geworden aber mehr auch nicht, eventuell lag es auch am zu alten Saatgut das 2021 Saatgut keimt oft nicht mehr so gut, war aber auch 2023 mit anderem Saatgut von 2021 so... liegt vielleicht auch an dem gewonnen Saatgut vom Jahr 2021.
