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Tartary Buckwheat
Fagopyrum tataricum
Tartary buckwheat is a fast-growing annual grain crop that doubles as a green manure, covering bare ground within weeks and pulling phosphorus up from deep in the soil for whatever follows it. The seed is cooked whole as a cereal, sprouted, or milled into flour, and its shallow, long-blooming flowers draw heavy visits from bees and other pollinating insects. The surprise is how narrow its heat window is: nights above about 26 C during flowering can make it abort nearly all its seed, so it performs best sown as a quick crop between the last frost and the start of summer heat rather than through the hottest months.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun
- USDA zone
- Not yet recorded
- Soil
- Sand · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Dry · Moist
Vertical layer
Herbaceous- Soil pH
- 4.5–7.8
- Plant type
- Annual
- Mature height
- 31 in
- Mature spread
- Not yet recorded
- Plant spacing
- 10–16 in
- Root type
- Tap
- Spread pattern
- Seed
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