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Eunice Wonnacott <[log in to unmask]> wrote
 
 
A year or more ago, I saw a report (not on line, as I remember) which
was an English translation of a Russian study   on nectar producing
plants.  They referred to several varieties of buckwheat by name, and
reported on their study as to nectar and pollen supplies.  There was a
vast difference in them.  I wonder if there is any way of accessing this
Russian study?  As I remember, there were several European countries
also included in the study.>>>>
 
Nectar production of Buckwheat (B.) are known here (Russia and post-Soviet
countryes) from ancient times as Buckwheat and B-honey are (and were) very
respectable here.
 
Figures of different B. sorts' nectar prodactivity present in all bee-textbooks.
I remember that the prodactivity can vary from 50 to 190 kilo of honey from
hectar depending of sort.
 
Both mentined textbooks and old beekeepers say that to get B.honey often is
a lack. Becous B. gives nectar in warm (not hot!), wet (not rainly!)
weather. B. NEVER give (they say) nectar crop on freshly manured grounds.
 
Yours
Vladimir O. from Belarus
 
-5 at night, +5-7 at day. Where is the spring going to come?!