Buckwheat · Kirāri Sulemānnagar, Delhi, India
When to plant buckwheat in Kirāri Sulemānnagar
Main outdoor window
14-28 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
7 January
In Kirāri Sulemānnagar, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
25 Mar - 14 Apr
If you plant at the start of the window.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Kirāri Sulemānnagar
Each window is a range, not a single day. Earlier in the range buys you a longer season; later in it buys you a safer one.
Sow direct
14-28 Jan
One week after your last frost.
Harvest
25 Mar - 14 Apr
Buckwheat through the year
Against the frost risk in Kirāri Sulemānnagar
Why these dates
Sow after the last frost, any time up to about eleven weeks before the first. Because it matures so fast it can follow an early crop and still finish, and it smothers weeds while doing so.
Killed outright by the lightest frost, which is exactly why it works as a summer cover crop that clears itself away in autumn.
Seed packets and extension guides express timing as weeks either side of the last spring frost, because that is the only reference point that travels. Buckwheat are timed for direct sowing 1 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Kirāri Sulemānnagar.
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Growing buckwheat in Kirāri Sulemānnagar
When should I plant buckwheat in Kirāri Sulemānnagar?
Aim for 14-28 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 20 Jan - 3 Feb - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will buckwheat be ready to harvest in Kirāri Sulemānnagar?
Expect to start picking around 25 Mar - 14 Apr, based on 70 to 90 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will buckwheat tolerate?
Killed outright by the lightest frost, which is exactly why it works as a summer cover crop that clears itself away in autumn.