Farm Seed Cover Crops For Sale In Connecticut

The mix is a balance of rapidly growing winter rye for erosion control and weed suppression plus Austrian winter pea for nitrogen fixation and aesthetic color during the winter. Packet will cover 300 to 400 square feet.

A great all purpose crop that works three ways. Growing legumes and incorporating them back into the soil increases the organic carbon content, and improves the soil fertility and water holding capacity of the soil.

One of the best nitrogen fixers, making 200-300 pounds per acre available. A great all purpose crop that works three ways. Growing legumes and incorporating them back into the soil increases the organic carbon content, and improves the soil fertility...

Sow 5 lb./1,000 sq.ft. Specific charges will be displayed during checkout.Cut the plants near the base when most of the green color has turned brown and the seeds are hardening (no longer milky).If anything you purchase from us proves unsatisfactory,...

Turnips have a high leaf to stem ratio and and provide very high concentrations of protein, sugar content and leaf yields. Ideally suited for grazing and it is common to obtain 4-6 tons of dry matter per acre of this high-energy feed.

The roots also leave large holes in the ground allowing water infiltration and soil aeration. The rapid growth of brassicas supplies a thick ground cover that protects the soil from erosion and helps suppress weeds with a dense amount of biomass.

Ready to pasture 6-8 weeks after sowing. Canola (Brassica napus): Cool season, broadleaf, upright and spreading growth habit Uses: Chicken Forage, Deer Attractant, Forage A cabbage related plant that is a perfect grazer! Dwarf Essex Rape is a perfect...

Uses: Chicken forage, deer attractant, forage, green manure, nitrogen fixation, no till, organic matter (biomass), weed suppression The foliage is pale green, and the flowers are colored, usually purple, pink or reddish.

Prevents erosion and builds organic matter in the soil! Plant early to late fall; in mild climates fall through early spring. The best choice for fast, cool-season germination. Captures soil nutrients in the fall to release in spring when worked into...

Winter rye is the most popular winter cover crop. It provides rapid growth of green mass that chokes out weeds and provides organic matter content to the soil. Prevents erosion and helps in breaking up subsoil while providing aesthetic value to the empty...

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When turned under, they decompose very quickly. They can provide a tremendous amount of biomass that not only smothers weeds and prevents soil erosion, but also puts huge amounts of green matter, or green manure, back into the soil which improves the...

The seeds are a typical blackeye type of Southern peas with cream-colored seed coats and black pigments around the eyes. California Blackeye #46 plants are more erect than California Blackeye #5.

Timing the harvest to ensure optimal moisture level reduces loss to shatter or grain resprouting—seed heads should be dry and resist denting by fingernail (ideal moisture content is 13% or less).

You can use these as green shell peas or dry like winter beans. Try with for maximum Nitrogen fixation. This pea plant is high yielding, vigorous and easy to grow.

Peas are delicious and easy to shell. If using for Nitrogen fixation we highly recommend using a cowpea inoculant. Elite is a bush type cream southern pea that produces heavy yields of 7″ pods.

Shade tolerant and sod forming. * A herbaceous, perennial grass, very winter hardy, provides wildlife habitat, erosion control and ground cover. It is found worldwide and can tolerate many habitats and climates; it generally needs full sun to thrive.

Jackhammer radish is a fast growing daikon radish that is a great scavenger. Starts germinating immediately and very easy to grow. Winter kills and turns into great biomass. Radish (Brassica): Cool Season, broadleaf, Annual, Upright and spreading habit,...

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The mix contains 60% Flex pea and 40% EverLeaf™ 126 forage oats. Plant late September to early October. Flex is a new highly digestible white flowering pea that has rapid emergence and growth, resulting in extremely heavy plant mass development and is...

One of the easiest and most economical ways to improve your soil is to plant green manures, commonly called cover crops. Plant late September to early October. These cover crops are nature's great nutrient recyclers.

Packer forage pea is a low-growing, viny legume which has been shown to fix over 200 pounds of nitrogen per acre per year. Uses: Chicken Forage, Deer Attractant, Forage, Green Manure, Nitrogen Fixation, No Till, Organic Matter (Biomass), Weed Suppression

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Plants are stoloniferous and can invade flower beds if an edging or barrier is not used. White Tailed Deer, Bison and Prairie Dogs utilize it for forage, and it is a larval host for the Green Skipper.

If left to grow, winter wheat makes good forage for livestock; or if allowed to mature it can be harvested mid-summer. Seeding rate: 1-2 pounds per 1000 square feet or 8-10 pounds per acre.