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Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum). This deep rooting green manure is great to break up subsoils and has a lot of growth to increase humus content. It also has the benefit of attracting hoverflies which feed on greenfly. For improving the soil, dig or rotavate in before frosts. This is a fast growing green manure so great for weed suppressing. Apr 35 seeds per gram. Use at10 gram per m2.