Love buckwheat flour I buy it in locally. I grow lots of it but haven't made flour from it just as a cover crop it has such a pretty flower the bees love it.
Fully endorse first piece, 2024 the exception that proves the rule...slugs yes but also voles/mice who dug up and ate three sowings of broad beans so I got none- 1st time in over thrity years. Also millipedes in new and main crop spuds- tiny entrance hole and the inside bored out into caverns full of them and their many babies, lost about half the crop- who would have thought it? No doubt more waves of unexpected change will keep rolling in. Helps being a taoist gardener- it is what it is. Will try buckwheat next year.
Hi Chris. Thanks for your comment. Sorry to hear about your garden problems, it's a difficult year here too. Too much rain followed by a long dry period followed by heavy storms! Adap and survive as they say!
Indeed. 'cept here we didn't get a dry period...tree and shrub crops plus stuff like Good ol' King Henry thriving though and no worries about fire this year- a relief.
Love buckwheat flour I buy it in locally. I grow lots of it but haven't made flour from it just as a cover crop it has such a pretty flower the bees love it.
Hi Lesley; Not just the bees and it's a good cover crop as you say.
Thanks for your comment :-)
Fully endorse first piece, 2024 the exception that proves the rule...slugs yes but also voles/mice who dug up and ate three sowings of broad beans so I got none- 1st time in over thrity years. Also millipedes in new and main crop spuds- tiny entrance hole and the inside bored out into caverns full of them and their many babies, lost about half the crop- who would have thought it? No doubt more waves of unexpected change will keep rolling in. Helps being a taoist gardener- it is what it is. Will try buckwheat next year.
Hi Chris. Thanks for your comment. Sorry to hear about your garden problems, it's a difficult year here too. Too much rain followed by a long dry period followed by heavy storms! Adap and survive as they say!
Indeed. 'cept here we didn't get a dry period...tree and shrub crops plus stuff like Good ol' King Henry thriving though and no worries about fire this year- a relief.
I heard that in northern Italy they used to use a lot of chestnut flour in cooking.