Uses Seed Cover Crops For Sale In Louisiana

Recommended seeding rate: 1-2 pounds per 1000 square feet; 30-40 pounds per acre. More and more organic growers and gardeners are discovering the long list of benefits that growing cover crops such as oilseed radish, mustards, and forage turnips can provide.

These cover crops are nature's great nutrient recyclers. Spring arrival brings re-growth that can be turned under as a green manure. Best stands obtained by planting 3 inches deep, but can also be broadcast at 1/2-3/4 pound per 100 square feet; 5 pounds...

The plant's extensive root system pulls nitrogen and other minerals from deep within the soil, and stores these elements within its roots and leaf structure. A great all purpose crop that works three ways.

In mild climates (zones 6 and above), cover crops can be fall planted and tilled in the following spring just before planting. These cover crops are nature's great nutrient recyclers.

Green manure crops are a superior source of organic matter when they are cut and turned under. 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...

Peas – Grow regular old peas in your deer food plot. Barkant Turnips are ideally suited for wildlife. Oats – Oats will kill off winter weeds and hold soil with a mat of vegetation! A high yielding oat that can produce over 100 bushels per acre.

Seed early in the fall or spring/summer. More and more organic growers and gardeners are discovering the long list of benefits that growing cover crops such as oilseed radish, mustards, and forage turnips can provide.

This organic cover crop will be very successful in warmer climates, containing 70% winter grain rye and 30% field (Austrian) winter pea. The mix is a balance of rapidly growing winter rye for erosion control and weed suppression plus Austrian winter pea...

In harsher climates, cover crops can be grown in rows between the crops or as a component of rotation in your garden. This cold hardy, fall planted variety has a particularly huge and extensive root system, better for mining nutrients during winter, and...

Green manure crops are a superior source of organic matter when they are cut and turned under. We strive to offer varieties that give gardeners flexibility on how to best utilize the crop: for food, forage, or green manure.

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 in early spring to add organic matter.

Green manure crops are a superior source of organic matter when they are cut and turned under. 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...

Vigorous late summer growth provides winter erosion control. Sow at 50 lb./acre or 1 1/2 lb./1,000 sq.ft.http://www.johnnyseeds.com/farm-seed/cover-crop-mixes/fall-green-manure/fall-green-manure-mix-cover-crop-seed-2613.30.htmlThis item's size, weight,...

These cover crops are nature's great nutrient recyclers. Spring arrival brings re-growth that can be turned under as a green manure. Recommended seeding rate: 1 pound per 1000 square feet; 20-30 pounds per acre.

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

The mix contains field peas, oats, and hairy vetch. We use this mix on our farm in Albion. 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...

Austrian winter pea is a low-growing, viny legume which has been shown to fix over 200 pounds of nitrogen per acre per year. Austrian Winter is a great cool season legume for cover crops, wildlife and winter grazing! Sometimes called “black pea” and...

It tends to be short-lived but provides quick stabilization for erosion control seedings, and it makes a good, early successional component of prairie mixtures. This cool-season bunchgrass can be found throughout Canada and the U.S. except in the southeastern...

The plant's extensive root system pulls nitrogen and other minerals from deep within the soil, and stores these elements within its roots and leaf structure. A great all purpose crop that works three ways.

The plant's extensive root system pulls nitrogen and other minerals from deep within the soil, and stores these elements within its roots and leaf structure. A great all purpose crop that works three ways.

Recommended seeding rate: 3-4 pounds per 1000 square feet; 70-150 pounds per acre. They can also be grown as a perennial in orchards and vineyards. For soil improving, it provides nearly 30 wet tons per acre of heavy organic matter for the soil while...

It can reach up to seven feet tall and is a common species of the Tallgrass Prairie. Indiangrass is a warm-season bunchgrass that is native to central and eastern North America. Excellent for prairie and conservation mixtures.

In harsher climates, cover crops can be grown in rows between the crops or as a component of rotation in your garden. Deep roots break up clay and reach farther for water, keeping it green when more shallow-rooted plants suffer.

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.

In more northern climes, an early spring plant will give high dry matter yields of excellent forage. A relatively new forage pea that has a wide range of applications! Secada forage pea is highly palatable, self-climbing, with high dry matter yields.

Typical nitrogen produced is 100 lbs. Sow with or without grain, grass or field peas! When sown late summer, spring regrowth is vigorous and nitrogen-producing, for tilling in before planting the spring garden crops.

Cowpeas are great for drying and canning. One of the most popular varieties preferred by Southerners. Produce pods that are six to seven inches long and purple. Hulls are purple, cowpeas are green with pinkeyes when freshly picked turning cream with dark...