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> Bill,
>
> Did the bees work your buckwheat well?  I bought a pound of buckwheat
> seed (black although not a particular variety) this spring from a
> nursury in Maine and planted a patch in my garden.  It grew and
> bloomed nicely all through the summer (it reseeds readily if not
> gathered promptly) but I only saw one or two honeybees on it
> throughout the whole season.

I did not plant it for bees but for ground cover and to recover a field,
so never noticed. But got lots of seeds and AFAIK it is not self
pollinating. So those seeds came from something pollinating it.

I planted about 3,000 sq feet.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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