Look for lawn rollers. Or lookup homemade cultipackers or homemade lawn rollers.
No till Food plotting.
Has anyone done the buckwheat cover, then killed it off as they plant their winter plots method for no till?
I only have a couple smaller plots on my place, not enough to warrant getting a tractor or even getting all that heavy equipment over to my place really.
Been looking at the Buck Wheat cover no till method for my place. I see a lot of them use a cultipacker to knock down the buckwheat before they spray it, those things are not cheap.... Anyone have a homemade method for doing that, maybe dragging a spool of chainlink across it or something. Don't feel like spending over $1k for one of the atv ones I've seen.
Just thinking it through righ now. I sprayed some places last month, gonna head back up early june, and maybe put out some buckwheat in those places.....
#AmateurFoodPlotter
I only have a couple smaller plots on my place, not enough to warrant getting a tractor or even getting all that heavy equipment over to my place really.
Been looking at the Buck Wheat cover no till method for my place. I see a lot of them use a cultipacker to knock down the buckwheat before they spray it, those things are not cheap.... Anyone have a homemade method for doing that, maybe dragging a spool of chainlink across it or something. Don't feel like spending over $1k for one of the atv ones I've seen.
Just thinking it through righ now. I sprayed some places last month, gonna head back up early june, and maybe put out some buckwheat in those places.....
#AmateurFoodPlotter
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I don't think you need to spray it if you have a crimper instead of a cultipacker
I was thinking about those, the ones you fill with water.... Seems like it'd do a pretty good job of smashing down a small plot.Look for lawn rollers. Or lookup homemade cultipackers or homemade lawn rollers.
I saw one guy who said he sprayed it after running it down with 1-2qt per acre glyphosate....I don't think you need to spray it if you have a crimper instead of a cultipacker
If you are going to spray it do it before rolling it. Gly isn't as effective if the plant is damaged.
I think the buckwheat dies after setting seed so I don't think you will need to spray if you wait long enough.
I think the buckwheat dies after setting seed so I don't think you will need to spray if you wait long enough.
What is in the plot now? Are you planning on tilling it to plant the buckwheat?
Buckwheat seed is fairly large (picture a pyramid shaped BB). In order to get decent seed/soil contact with buckwheat some scarifying/tilling of the soil would probably be necessary to promote adequate germination.
Your first issue may be getting a decent stand of buckwheat in order to use it as a cover crop if no tillage equipment is available.
If you do get a decent stand of buckwheat it is extremely easy to terminate. Unlike grain crops, buckwheat stems are very low in fibrous matter and are very easy to "snap" off to terminate as they are almost gelatinous in consistency if you terminate when still green. Even if you allow it to mature if you simply ran over it with any heavy item the stems tend to get brittle and snap off then as well.
Buckwheat seed is fairly large (picture a pyramid shaped BB). In order to get decent seed/soil contact with buckwheat some scarifying/tilling of the soil would probably be necessary to promote adequate germination.
Your first issue may be getting a decent stand of buckwheat in order to use it as a cover crop if no tillage equipment is available.
If you do get a decent stand of buckwheat it is extremely easy to terminate. Unlike grain crops, buckwheat stems are very low in fibrous matter and are very easy to "snap" off to terminate as they are almost gelatinous in consistency if you terminate when still green. Even if you allow it to mature if you simply ran over it with any heavy item the stems tend to get brittle and snap off then as well.
Buckwheat is part of my summer "blend". I let it mature. Bees and other insects work on the flowers. Deer eat the leaves. Turkeys and other birds eat the seed.
what’s buckwheat going for these days??
Take some pictures and show us the stages and how it works whatever method you use. Good luck
I made my own cultipacker out of culvert filled with concrete and a steel frame, but for knocking down crops, you could probably just get some good chain and go cut the largest cedar log you think your ATV will pull.
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