Uses Seed Cover Crops For Sale In Honolulu

The roots also scavenge nutrients from deep in the soil and bring them back to the surface where they can be utilized by your next food crop plantings. As a fast germinating nurse crop, it will shade and keep the soil cooler for slower germinating legumes.

A great all purpose crop that works three ways. When these soil microorganisms eat organic matter, nutrients are released back into the soil in a form that is usable by plants. (A) Annual (B) Biennial (P) Perennial.

The roots also scavenge nutrients from deep in the soil and bring them back to the surface where they can be utilized by your next food crop plantings. A valuable forage crop, Piper Sudangrass can be grazed, cut for a fine hay or made into silage.

Cereal grains and grasses grow very quickly and provide quick ground cover. Spring arrival brings re-growth that can be turned under as a green manure. In mild climates (zones 6 and above), cover crops can be fall planted and tilled in the following spring...

Peas – Grow regular old peas in your deer food plot. Ready to pasture 6-8 weeks after sowing. Barkant Forage Turnip – Great forage crop that provides high energy feed! Barkant turnips are an improved, early maturing, diploid turnip wtih a large purple...

The roots also scavenge nutrients from deep in the soil and bring them back to the surface where they can be utilized by your next food crop plantings. Slow initial growth, but forms a thick stand in the spring.

Sow in the fall or as soon as possible in the spring. Some brassicas have a large taproot that can break through plow or rototiller pans, thus aerating the soil. Can be worked in late April or early May.

Captures soil nutrients in the fall to release in spring when worked into the soil. Prevents erosion and builds organic matter in the soil! Plant early to late fall; in mild climates fall through early spring.

The roots also scavenge nutrients from deep in the soil and bring them back to the surface where they can be utilized by your next food crop plantings. An annual with ivory blossoms, Berseem will tolerate a wide range of soils, and temperatures down to...

One of the easiest and most economical ways to improve your soil is to plant green manures, commonly called cover crops. For maximum nitrogen yields, legumes should be incorporated into the soil at peak bloom.

Also, it is a nutritious, durable and digestible forage crop that provides high-quality fodder for livestock and a tempting, tasty food source for attracting wildlife. This process is called nutrient cycling.

A great all purpose crop that works three ways. When these soil microorganisms eat organic matter, nutrients are released back into the soil in a form that is usable by plants. (A) Annual (B) Biennial (P) Perennial.

Most garden soils can be maintained at their highest level of productivity by sound soil management practices that involve a combination of soil tillage, crop rotation, and most importantly, the addition of organic matter through green manures.

It is a nutritious and palatable forage grass for domestic and wild animals. * Festuca rubra is a species of grass known by the common name red fescue . It is found worldwide and can tolerate many habitats and climates; it generally needs full sun to...

Winter hardy nearly anywhere, and won't go to seed until its second year of growth. Cool wheat grain is quick to germinate and cold tolerant! Adaptable to a wide range of soils, Winter Wheat is sown in late summer for erosion control and tilled under...

The green pods are easy to shell. Black Crowder cowpea is a high yielding variety of long pods. The peas themselves have a deep purple color when first shelled which then turn black when dried.

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

This light sweet is a great alternative to conventional chocolate candies and makes an eye-catching and delicious favor for weddings, baby showers and other events. Our pastel pink chocolate-covered sunflower seeds are simple yet sensational.

Tolerant of dry conditions. Sunn Hemp is a fast-growing legume that produces significant quantities of biomass and fixes nitrogen into the soil witha short rotation of 60 days under optimum conditions.

Showy crimson blooms in late spring are an excellent source of nectar for bees. Winter annual protects and improves soil! Plant fall or early spring. A good nitrogen fixer (70-150 lbs per acre per year).

From spring until fall it's possible to plant and work in several rotations of Buckwheat. This process is called nutrient cycling. Green manures can be grown in the same year as a vegetable crop, such as a cover crop of white clover planted around a cole...

* Succeeds in any moderately fertile well-drained soil in a sunny position. * It is planted in vineyards and alongside crop fields, where it is valued for its long, coiling inflorescences of nectar-rich flowers which open in sequence, giving a long flowering...

It has hollow, slender and succulent stems, 2 to 4 feet long. Austrian Winter is a great cool season legume for cover crops, wildlife and winter grazing! Sometimes called “black pea” and “field pea” is a cool-season, annual legume with good, nitrogen-fixing...

Pearl Millet is a very tall grass that can reach 15 feet. Well adapted to low soil moisture, low fertility, and high temperatures. High in protein, digestible, and free of prussic acid.

Recommended seeding rate: 3 ounces per 1,000 square feet or 7 pounds per acre. As a cover crop, Lacy Phacelia aggressively out-competes weeds, and will absorb excess nitrates and calcium in the ground.

It grows quickly at heights up to 7 feet. Produces heavy amounts of organic matter and suppresses weeds. Piper Sudan grass is a great catch crop for excess nitrogen. Great for livestock forage, but should be grazed only when mature and never after a frost...

Turnips have a high leaf to stem ratio and and provide very high concentrations of protein, sugar content and leaf yields. Barkant turnips are an improved, early maturing, diploid turnip with a large purple tankard shaped bulb.