Garden Cover Crop Mix,
Garden Cover Crop Mix has various plants to help replenish your garden! Versatile for any garden and attractive to pollinators as well. It has legumes, hearty grains, radishes, and mustards – to help your garden from all the growing you are doing! Non-GMO Garden Cover Crops are found to improve soils in several ways- by protecting living soil, donating Organic material and nutrients, and keeping the soil alive year-round to ensure healthy composition. These elements were considered when assembling this carefully picked seed blend. There are four legumes to fix nitrogen in the soil, three hearty grains for fast cover and bio-mass, a deep-rooted radish to break up and aerate the soil, a mustard with natural insecticidal properties, and a for forage and additional biomass. Garden Cover Crop Mix features a blend of cool-hardy legumes intended to grow in poor, exhausted soils. Our Garden Cover Crop Seed Mix features some of the most popular and best-selling cultivars. Garden Cover Crop seeds are planned to be broadcasted directly at almost any time of year to mulch back into the soil. Garden Cover Crop garden seeds will have variable germination times from 3-21 days, reaching maturity between 30-70 days, depending on the variety. It works for everything from small backyard gardens to large farm applications, and it is an ideal no-till option for container gardening and raised beds.
Garden Cover Crop Mix Contents
Austrian Field Pea 22.95% Pisum sativum
Hard Red Winter Wheat 21.54% Triticum aestivium
Triticale 19.90% Triticosecale
Trophy (Canola) 7.95% Brassica oleracea var. acephala
Collard Greens*
Daikon Radish 7.83% Raphanus sativus
Hairy Vetch 7.92% Vicia villosa
Crimson Clover 3.27% Trifolium incarnatum
Frosty Berseem Clover 2.61% Trifolium alexandrinum
or Medium Red Clover*
Yellow Mustard 2.00% Brassica hirta
Other Crop 0.10%
*These minor substitutions may occur based on seed seasonality and availability. The performance of the mix remains the same
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This cover crop seed blend is excellent for fall or spring, till the plants before they bear seeds. If using a no-till method, cut down (string trimmer or scythe) before the crop goes to seed.
Pkt Size/Approx, Seeds
0.5oz / 500+ Seeds (enough for a 4x4 garden bed or box)
1.0oz / 1000+ Seeds (enough for a 4x8 garden bed or box)