Buckwheat is an environmentally friendly product. It is very nutritious and he althy. This cereal is ideal for diabetics and lovers of weight loss diets. Buckwheat is considered a national Russian dish. Although it was first cultivated for the first time about forty centuries ago. And not in Russia. Buckwheat was brought to our country much later. Since then, in Russia, this cereal has always been grown as a food product. And in most countries it is considered food for animals (deer, horses, etc.).
How did buckwheat get to Russian fields?
The history of buckwheat begins in India and Nepal. It was there that they began to grow it for the first time. Then the seeds of this culture were brought to China, then to Korea and Japan. And only after these countries, buckwheat came to Russia. First to the Far East. In Russia, the assessment of the usefulness and nutritional value of buckwheat for humans was the highest. As a result, this culture has received the greatest distribution precisely in Russian fields.
Which countries grow buckwheat?
Where does buckwheat grow in the world? As mentioned above, this culture began to grow about four thousand years ago, in India. into Russianfields of buckwheat seeds came much later. They were brought around in the seventh century. Now, almost half of the world's buckwheat harvest comes from Russia. This crop is grown in large quantities in several other countries: Belarus, China and Ukraine.
In small quantities, buckwheat is sown in several other countries. For example, in the USA, Tanzania, Poland, France and some other states. In ancient times, buckwheat was sown in England and Wales, but the attitude towards it has changed a long time ago. It began to be considered a fodder crop. And therefore, buckwheat is no longer grown at all in the UK.
Where is buckwheat grown in Russia?
Where does buckwheat grow in Russia? The main regions that are engaged in the cultivation of this crop are Transbaikalia, Southern Siberia, and the Far East. But this culture grows best in the Volga and Ural regions, in southern Russia.
What does buckwheat look like when growing?
The spectacle of flowering fields sown with buckwheat is impossible to forget. How buckwheat grows, the photo clearly demonstrates. A field with a flowering crop looks like a green juicy mass, the top of which is covered with pink flowers. And in the full range of shades of this color. As the buckwheat matures, its stems and leaves become more and more saturated green, and the inflorescences themselves can reach a bright red hue.
Where can I grow buckwheat?
How does buckwheat grow? It's a somewhat capricious culture. She is afraid of the cold (although there are frost-resistant varieties). With this feature, buckwheat learnedfight for a long time. First, they grow it where the climate is warm. Secondly, this crop is sown later than all the others. When warm weather is guaranteed.
Buckwheat only grows in moist soil. And the fields should be surrounded by woodland. It protects the culture from a sharp cold snap, strong winds and drought. Near the field it is necessary that there is a river or a water stream near which buckwheat grows. In this case, the harvests will always be plentiful.
Buckwheat also does not like very high temperatures (from thirty degrees). The ideal temperature for flowering is from fifteen to seventeen degrees. The ground should be well warmed up, and the fields should receive sufficient lighting.
Honey culture
Buckwheat is a unique honey plant. It is more useful than honey obtained from any other plants. In addition, when flowering in the fields, there are always a lot of bees, which, with the help of pollination, can increase the yield by more than half. Therefore, along the edges of buckwheat fields, apiaries are often arranged and beehives with bees are placed.
Many beekeepers try to grow buckwheat on their plots, knowing that honey is very tasty and has special beneficial qualities - disinfectant and healing. In France, buckwheat is eaten little. But they grow it more for honey, which is very highly valued.
How does buckwheat grow?
If all favorable conditions for the growth of buckwheat are met, then shoots appear at the end of the first week after planting. How does buckwheat grow? At firstsmall green shoots appear. In the second week, the first leaves are formed. Twelve days later - the second.
At the same time, branches with buds are formed. Buckwheat begins to bloom in three weeks. At first, its flowers are pale pink or white. During the ripening period, they gradually acquire more and more saturated colors. Also, the stems and leaves become darker.
Fertilizers
How does buckwheat grow, does it need fertilizer? Buckwheat is unique not only for its usefulness and honey, but also for the fact that this crop does not need fertilizers. They might even ruin it. Buckwheat is especially capricious to chemical fertilizers. Although they are sometimes used for high yields.
Fertilizers are applied under crops during the flowering of the crop. Nitrogen must be accurately calculated and used with great care so as not to lead to a sharp increase in buckwheat. This culture, unlike others, already has a solid vegetative mass.
Buckwheat differs from many plants in its growth - the process occurs constantly, until the grains are fully ripe. This culture has a positive attitude to phosphorus and potash fertilizers. But buckwheat does not recognize pesticides. He also has an unfavorable attitude towards gene experiments.
What does buckwheat look like when growing?
What does buckwheat look like when it grows? Buckwheat has an upright green stem. When the plant matures fully, its flowers turn bright red. In the core, the leaves are hairless, triangular, partially colored green. The upper ones are sessile, and the lower ones arepetiolate.
Shades of inflorescences - from white to pink (any intensity). Flowers have five petals. Inflorescence - in the form of a brush, numbering up to two thousand flowers in one plant. Buckwheat can even produce two crops in a summer.
When is the harvest?
Immature buckwheat kernels are green. They taste like hazelnuts. Brown color (which people are used to seeing buckwheat in stores) is acquired under conditions of intensive industrial processing. Buckwheat is harvested still raw and then carefully dried. This is done to increase the shelf life of buckwheat. Some of the useful properties are, unfortunately, lost.
Interesting facts about Greek
This culture is absolutely not afraid of weeds. And in agriculture, such a plant is the only one. Where buckwheat grows, there are practically no weeds. It suppresses them, displaces them, destroys them already in the first year, as soon as it was sown. And on the second weeds do not grow at all. And the person doesn't even need to weed.
How does buckwheat grow? Despite the fact that it is rather capricious to temperature extremes and cold weather, it is almost not demanding on the soil. The only condition is that the ground be moist.
Buckwheat is not a grain. This plant is from the rhubarb family. In Europe, buckwheat is not known in all countries. For example, in stores in many countries it is sold in small packages of two hundred grams with an annotation about its properties and methods of preparation.
Buckwheat husks are sometimes used as fillerfor orthopedic pillows. They can be found in many stores in the People's Republic of China, South Korea and Japan. Orthopedic pillows can also be made at home on your own.
