Food Plots Throw and mow buckwheat

[Creek bottoms]

Can it be done effectively? Plant date around 5/10.

 

[GUNNERX2]

The only experience I've had with buckwheat is that the rabbits and turkeys wiped me out.

 

[BSK]

Yes, I plant it twice a year, both spring and fall. I mix my spring Buckwheat with Hutchinsen soybeans and cowpeas. I broadcast seed as soon as the winter Crimson Clover and wheat have seeded out and died (which is usually late May), then mow, then spray gly. In fall, IF moisture is adequate in September, I will broadcast buckwheat and Crimson Clover into the standing buckwheat/soybeans/cowpeas, mow, then spray Clethodim to kill the summer grasses, but allow for the buckwheat/soybeans/cowpeas to grow back along with the new Buckwheat and Crimson Clover seed. I then broadcast cereal grains in mid-October.

 

[@fulldraw]

I've thrown buckwheat during the middle of June before a rain and it grew perfectly. Love that stuff!

 

[Bucket]

Can confirm that it will grow just about anywhere when broadcast in May.

 

[DoubleRidge]

Yes....we sprayed vegetation, broadcast buckwheat into standing vegetation, mow or allow it to lay down naturally. We went a little high on rates and they were the cleanest weed free throw and mow plots we've ever done.....great soil builder, deer used it some, turkeys and dove loved it when it went to seed....We like buckwheat.

 

[redrum1187]

Do it all the time.... a small plot will be hit hard with pressure though, better if you have volume etc

 

[BSK]

Yes....we sprayed vegetation, broadcast buckwheat into standing vegetation, mow or allow it to lay down naturally. We went a little high on rates and they were the cleanest weed free throw and mow plots we've ever done.....great soil builder, deer used it some, turkeys and dove loved it when it went to seed....We like buckwheat.

I purposefully overseed when I throw-and-mow plant. Sometimes it ends up being a problem in patches, but I'm usually glad a did overseeded when reviewing entire plots.

Below are two pictures of a section of a plot that was throw-and-mow planted in Buckwheat, Hutchinsen soybeans, and Iron and Clay cowpeas in early June last year. First picture is late June, and second picture is mid-July. Buckwheat is a tad thick! The crazy thing is, by late summer the deer had absolutely stripped that Buckwheat. All the Buckwheat was stripped down to just the main stalk with no leaves by mid-September.