Hey there, so happy to have you today. On today's episode, I'm going to be discussing a subject

that I've had a lot of people ask me about, especially over the summer last year, and that is

growing buckwheat as a cover crop. Now, we haven't really explored cover crops all that much

on the podcast yet. It was really something that I haven't done a whole lot of

and something that I'm trying to get better at. But I will tell you that toward the late summer,

we'll talk more about cover crops in general. But one you might want to know more about now

is buckwheat because it's one of the few cover crops that you're able to plant

during the summer. Now you may be wondering why would I want to use my garden space for a cover

crop in the summer? Well consider this. If you're a first time gardener, this has never happened to you,

but if you've been gardening for any length of time, and this

depends on where you're located in your climate, but I know that this has happened for me many

times. It's usually about this time of year two, usually the middle to end of June, maybe even

sooner. A lot of my spring crops come out of my garden, like peas and lettuce and potatoes and onions

and garlic.

And like I said, a lot of this depends on where you're located.

But they'll come out of my garden because they're ready to harvest or they've bolted or

something like that.

And I've already got my summer crops in other parts of the garden.

And it's definitely not time to plant

fall crops yet, and so I have this open space with nothing growing. Well, part of me feels like,

well, that's a waste. I should be planting something, but like I said, I already have most of my

summer crops or all of them already in place. Well, I'll tell you what's going to grow if you do

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