- One of the best crops to feed the bees, this variety is the result of cultivating for more stable buckwheat yields, however using the grains whole will require de-hulling.
Fagopyrum esculentum. 49 days to full maturity. Buckwheat is the perfect smother crop, adding valuable green manure to your soil or harvesting for seed. We kind of do both. We thresh the grain for our chickens and add the stalks to the compost pile.
