Buckwheat Pollinator Plot - Planting to Bloom
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Planting buckwheat for pollinators. The key in planting for honeybees or other pollinators is to try and fill in the gaps in major nectar flows...to give them something to eat when nothing else is available.
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This is probably the best videography and editing job I’ve done. Hope you guys enjoy it!
My dentist has a farm somewhere around Santa Fe, TN. She keeps asking me about raising bees. I told her I am still guessing on most bee problems/tasks, but she should learn from you instead, and bragged on the excellent video editing you do. The music is superb in this one BTW!
Thanks!
@@DuckRiverHoney looked amazing mate.
Oh man I want a tractor so bad! Great video!!!
They’re handy at times, thanks Kaye!
Excellent vid! Thumbs up!
I wish you’d tow that tractor over here and do the same thing! (Except smaller😊)
Love buckwheat!
Super neat plant, wish it was grown more.
It has come to the time that we will have to do what you are doing to save our bees gives a great insight Ireland calling thank you
Thanks John, what part of Ireland are you from?
Good photography
Thanks Peter!
Smash that like button. Interested in this video as this grain is worth alot in our market.... i think you have shown a income stream for part timers.
What market are you in? I don’t have equipment to harvest and dry buckwheat, but I have considered small scale collecting it for seed for following years.
Seeing nature’s pollinators benefiting from your hard work must be so gratifying. Thanks for sharing your time and experience with this post as it’s much appreciated.
You are gracious and classy as ever Zelma, thank you!
loving the land
Thanks Mark
In California I only saw the hummingbird moth out at dusk so that was really not very much light to film so that’s amazing you got that footage, Bravo!
Thanks!
Here in MN we see the hawk moth at dusk also. They sure have a long tongue!
Yes they do, I was shocked by the slow motion footage…they move the tongue nearly as fast as their wings!
AWESOME! Great shot of the Hummingbird Moth. really enjoyed this video.
Thanks, those critters move fast! Hard to get good shots of them.
Planting buckwheat in my modest urban garden works as good too!
Did you sow before a rain forecast?
How long do you let the buckwheat stay up before terminating it?
As usual you are informative inspiring and make the family and I very jealous being surrounded by some beautiful landscapes.
Could I make one little observation about your videography. Your filming is great but you need to add a little more diversity in you shots. While the music it fitting, if you are going to use the same soundtrack try mixing up some of your tighter shots with other movements. I love the label overlays you add when identifying species of insects.
If your fast growing knowledge base of beekeeping is anything to go by, I’m so excited to see where your new love of filmmaking will take us.
Once again we’ll done mate.
Thanks Wayne, I’m enjoying learning video and editing, it’s all new to me. I couldn’t have made this video a couple months ago, so hopefully I’ll keep learning. Thanks for the tips. You guys will be coming up on spring before too long right? Hmmmm…do you get spring, or is it more a dry and wet season? Regardless you should be past the solstice with lengthening days so your bees should perk up.
@@DuckRiverHoney evening Nath, yes mate we are coming into spring in a couple of weeks and I’m feeding my hives to promote early growth as it’s 26 degrees in the day or as you say 79deg Fahrenheit tops days and dry. There is not much food around at the moment so this should perk them up coming into spring.
The girls are definitely out of the hive a lot more. The hive relocation went well moving less then a foot a day. They have settled and working on brining pollen in but not much nectar hence the feeding.
I managed to save a Queensland native stingless bee hive in a house post from a house demolition which I have given to my youngest son. He’s loving having a hive of his own he doesn’t need to wear a suit for.
Swarm traps are out and prepped ready so fingers crossed.
I think you have a great eye for landscapes and I am looking forward in seeing many more.
Shout out for your brother in bees in Queensland……Gods country. May your family be safe and well.Wayne.
The only bee meeting I have been able to attend was in October 2019, in Crossville, TN, and Shannon Trimboli was the speaker. She signed her book and it is a good read. Coincidentally she and I exchanged emails today.
People like you and her give me the confidence and motivation needed to get my first honey crop this week. I caught a feral swarm using your techniques and the queen is a super-star! Thanks so much to both of you!
I’ve never met her, but I like her book a lot. Thanks for the encouragement, and congratulations!
I used to have Carolina Jasmine on the back of my house and had hummingbird moths out there. That was quite interesting. I so enjoyed your video. Your aunt is a favorite of mine. I subscribed and am looking forward to your next video. Be safe.
Thanks!
Outstanding
Thanks John!
I totally love your intelligent way of bee keeping, and learning a lot. Thank you.
Thanks Amy, that’s very kind of you.
found your channel via your aunty Kaye
we have bees on my ranch although the hives belong to my Apache wranglers have for a while now keen to have my hives
ok seeya ,,,,, Edwin Az
That's awesome, thanks!
Excellent videography!...Loved the scene changes in synch with the music change. Also I knew you had good taste but seeing your Tilley LTM6 Airflow has confirmed it for sure. I have one just like it and love it!
Thanks, I’m really enjoying the videography and editing. I like learning new things, and this is totally new. Tilley’s are awesome! I’ve got a couple…that one is my summer tractor and kayak fishing hat.
You did good. I am sorry now that I was late in Planting my buckwheat. 1st year bee keeper and I am still learning. Planted crimson clover this spring and the deer went to town on it before the bees had a chance. Will rectify that this fall and winter. Thanks for the video, Craig Fr. VA / SML Bees
Thanks Craig! Good thing about crimson is that it volunteers pretty well. Plant in fall and you should have it for several springs. It competes with the tulip poplar bloom here, so bees don’t use it as much as some other plantings.
Great video, thank you for sharing with us
Thanks David!
Great job showing us all the amount of life flying around! Hope my smaller patches of buckwheat get at least a fraction of that activity! Planted buckwheat to help suppress some weedy areas and was also kind of hoping my bees/beehive would notice as well! Great video and editing + sound track, got my sub!
Awesome, thanks!
Found you through @latebloomer. Great information! We have bees here in PHX az @sweetlifegarden.
Thanks!
Cool idea with the buckwheat. We grow a ton of milkweed for the butterflies here in Davidson NC and try to help nature when we can. We want to do what your doing next spring in Asheville. I want to build up to 500 hives and grow organics and hemp. I'm looking at getting a kubota backhoe on craigs list next March for the farm. Why didn't you turn the soil with a blade? Keep up the good work and it looks like you need help with your website. I can help if your interested. I can set it up so you can make changes.
I try not to use a turning plow unless I need to. The chisel plow would’ve gotten hung in the ground cover, and I figured I could get a good enough seed bed just with the disk. These plots get worked every year…if it was “new ground” I would’ve broken it (best to do in the fall). I built the website with Wordpress using the Divi theme. It’s a work in progress, when I have time.
Cool I use divi as well so you understand how easy it is to change it up. I like the look of your farm and what your doing for nature. We love living in North Carolina and so excited to move to Asheville and start a bee/vegi farm. You will see more of me here on youtube when I move to mile away honey. My gal does function training so I use you tube to promote it. campdavidson.com. Good work out :)
Great job. My favorite is the hummingbird moth.🐝👍❤
Thanks! This was a fun video to make.
@@DuckRiverHoney it looked like it was. Terrible day for me looks like i have several hives that have been poisoned. Hope they pull through it
That’s awful, good luck!
Awesome footage, love this!! Roughly how much does it cost per acre to plant buckwheat?
Seed is usually $50 to $60 per 50 lbs, and planting rate is 50 lbs / acre.
Um no snakes in there...?
Probably are, lots of rat snakes and black racers around.
Did you say how big this plot is?
Two plots, both about an acre.
I wonder how big of an area of buckwheat it would take for the bees to fill supers. I have read where buckwheat honey has some reportedly outstanding health benefits. Kind of strong smell and taste but good for you.
I had some mixed into fall honey last year, it was a strong honey, but delicious. Everyone who tried it preferred it even to clover honey. Not sure on the acreage needed, though I checked today and I have some supers that have been completely drawn out and partially filled on this buckwheat flow.
@@DuckRiverHoney That's great you have capped supers of buckwheat honey. Also fyi I have a couple of food plots with Imperial Whitetail Clover and my bees have never stopped working on it since the start in the spring on the first blooms. I didn't want to but had to mow it to stop weeds and get the fall growth. The bees only missed about a week and now new blooms are popping out already and the bees are hammering them again.
That’s fun stuff, we are too far south for the best white clover flow, it prefers the limestone soils and colder winters of Kentucky north and west to Iowa.
@@DuckRiverHoney Yeah we are about 2 hours east of Iowa in the center of Illinois. That Imperial Whitetail Clover was developed and breed from white clover that grows on south Pacific islands. It will get about knee high and millions of big blooms if it gets enough rain. I lime it too , that don't hurt.
I add some lime every year to mint to try and stay on top of it.
I just had hot tea with buckwheat honey 🍯
I like buckwheat honey. It’s got a lot of flavor.
Enjoy your videos and especially planting for bees. 2nd year Ohio beek here. (18 colony’s looking to expand) What I noticed that my frame building and nectar flow really slowed down mid June. Basically Clover and Sumac after that. I have currently close to 20 acres that my neighbor plants in corn and has for years. (110 acre property mostly wooded) Planning to recall this and planting 10 ac Huban Sweet White Clover plus a bit of Buckwheat. Timing it to produce after June. Will plant some Soybeans and Corn for deer😊 Was thinking of CRP Pollinators Program but felt I might be limited in what I can plant. My question is will this make a big difference in nectar flow from June through August? I did pull off 6 gallons honey from my biggest hive (plus 2 nucs from this hive)and most of that was produced before June 1st. Thinking through my Options! Thank You in advance!! PS Where did you speak in Ohio. My farm is in Coshocton Co.
Hi Tim, the buckwheat I think helps prevent grumpy bees trying to rob each other by giving them something to do. I’m not planting those plots to make honey. I’ve also got some sweet clover planted that should bloom well next summer…may want to look into it. I did a presentation for the Green County Beekeepers Club via Zoom. It was a good opportunity. Thanks!
Great stuff. How do you keep white tail deer from eating the buckwheat before the plants mature?
The deer browse it some, but they have a lot of other food this time of year, and buckwheat grows fast.
Do the deer and ground hogs eat the BW when it is young and tender?… if so how do defend against that?
The hummingbird moths are hard on tomatoes because they start as a tomato cutworms. I still do have a hard time killing the moths, not so much the cutworms.
Lots of tomato gardens around here, maybe that’s why we have so many hummingbird moths?
So I should not throw buckwheat seeds in my neighbors hay field?
Without tilled ground they likely won’t grow. White clover probably would though, and it also helps bees.
Hummingbird moth lays eggs that become the tomato worm.
Yeah, sort of a love / hate thing…but they are super cool.
Would like to have seen the first bloom date and last bloom date
Buckwheat starts to bloom in about 4 or 5 weeks and will bloom well for 2-3 weeks depending on weather.
What is the name of this song?
Do cows eat the buckwheat?
They will. Goats will too, but it takes a lot of them to graze it down.
Does it self seed?
If you let it mature and then disk it down it will resprout. I’ve gotten three blooming crops in a single year a couple times….plant in May, mature and disk it down, grow and mature, disk it down.