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RE: Green Growing Things: What's In the Outdoor Garden?
all that green and diversity - beautiful! I have a little envy over how much green, luscious food you still have left in the garden. Ours is just about done. We are huge fans of buckwheat as a cover crop. The flowers are so beautiful and the bees just adore it! Sadly it gets too cold so we have to harvest the seed and store it over winter and re-plant in the spring. Some of the seeds that have fallen will re-seed but most end up dying.
The long season is for SURE was/is a big draw for us choosing this place as home, gives us a lot more wiggle room. Where I grew up has had the first snow already.
Glad you love buckwheat. It's just so friendly, soft stalked and deliciously smelly. I've heard it help mobilize Ca in the soil, but I've yet to test that.