Type: Annual summer flower
Height: 90-110cm
Placement: Full sun
Quantity: Min. 50 seeds
Germination rate: 80%
Plant spacing: 20x20cm
Color: White with shades of pink
Sowing: May-August in 1cm depth
Flowering: June-October.
Buckwheat is a subdued but strikingly beautiful flower in the garden, due to its dark red stem and the delicately shaped small white flowers that develop from pink flower buds.
Buckwheat is not very bulky and can therefore be placed in combination with other flowers if you have bare spots in your flowerbed.
Buckwheat is used as a cover crop in the vegetable garden - therefore it can be sown until August, but if you sow it in August it will not flower, but only helps to improve the soil. Buckwheat is also used in cooking, but unfortunately the shells around the buckwheat seed are so hard that you cannot crack them without machinery. The flower, however, is beautiful enough that it should be grown purely for its appearance - plus you can eat both the flowers and the leaves of the plant.
