All Game Cover Seed Crops
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A fast establishing, maturing mixture ideal for patching failed crops or where a later sown crop is wanted.
- Provides cover and potentially seeds within 16 weeks of sowing
- Rescue mixture for failed crops
- Rapid establishment
- 50% Buckwheat, 15% Fodder Radish, 15% White Mustard, 10% Gold of pleasure, 10% Texsel Greens
- Sowing rate: 5kg per acre. Pack Size: 10kg
Spitfire Hybrid Forage Rape is a rape and kale hybrid, is a good companion to use with other fast establishing brassicas.
- Provide cover for a whole season
- Very vigorous and quick growing, ideal for replacing failed crops or patching
- Good disease and bolting resistance
- Sowing rate: 2.5kg per acre.
Triticale produces long straw with an excellent resistance to lodging. Impressive root development extracts nutrients from deep in the soil profile.
- A wheat/rye hybrid cereal providing good cover and feed in low fertility areas.
- Clean crop with a low susceptibility to fusarium and ergot
- Resistant to attack from rabbits
- Higher grain yield than other leading varieties
- Sowing rate: 100kg / ha
Sunflowers are another great option when it comes to cover crops, whether used straight or in a mixture to produce combined benefits.
- Standard tall variety.
- Excellent nectar rich flowers provide food for pollinators.
- Dead flower heads provide an ideal overwintering habitat for pollinators.
- Frequently sown as part of a game cover mixture or with Kale.
- Sowing rate: 5kg per acre.
Texsel greens are a fast growing, shiny leaved brassica developed from Ethiopian mustard. Very easy to establish and provide frost hardy cover.
- Produces a broken canopy, ideal for flushing birds.
- Texel Greens are fast and easy to establish.
- Frost hardy cover crop.
- Ideal for suppressing weeds.
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre. Pack Size: 2kg. Treated seed.
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Thousand Head Kale is a popular, tried and tested variety with good standing ability and winter hardiness.
- Thousand Head is a slender stemmed variety bearing leafy foliage.
- Excellent winter hardiness providing forage for feeding after Christmas.
- Can supply approximately 90 tonnes/ha of green forage matter.
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre.
The Traditional Game Cover Mixture combines a broad range of species which will give a full season of cover and a supply of food.
- A tried and tested mixture of species that provide feed and cover
- Sunflowers provide an attractive splash of colour
- Differing seed sizes mean it is best to broadcast rather than drilled
- White Millet, Red Millet, Buckwheat, Sorghum, Kale, Sunflower, White Mustard, Forage Rape, Gold of Pleasure, Phacelia, Quinoa
- Sowing Rate: 10kg per acre. Packsize: 25kg
Vittasso Brown Mustard is a highly versatile game cover crop - easy to establish, quick growing and winter hardy.
- Sow from late July onwards to produce a dense, leafy canopy.
- Winter-hardy, easy to establish, cost-effective.
- Can be sown as a rescue crop for failed spring sowings.
- Can grow up to 1.5 metres dependent on sowing period.
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre (5kg per ha).
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Very popular for use in potato rotations to control soil borne pests and can be incorporated into moist soil to maximise biofumigation.
- Green manure crop with biofumigant properties
- Winter-hardy, easy to establish, cost effective
- Reduces wireworm and PCN populations and their effect on potatoes
- Suppresses Verticillium wilt and Sclerotinia in potato production
- Sowing Rate: 5kg / ha
- VITTASSO Brown Mustard Brochure
Boston Seeds are proud to supply the EnviroSeeds range for biodiversity and sustainable farming.
White millet is a popular choice as it provides cover and a source of food. Particularly attractive to English and French partridges.
- Produces a plentiful supply of small seeds for birds
- Often sown in conjunction with maize or kale
- It is vigorous and will grow to a height of up to 90cm
- Thicker leaved and higher seed production than red millet
- Sowing rate: 5kg acre.
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White mustard is an ever popular choice for game cover. Very easy to establish and grows rapidly, providing cover until the first winter frosts.
- Can be sown alone or as a companion to other species
- Ideal for early cover, killed off by frost will create shelter for birds
- Quick growing - ideal for patching failed spring cover crops
- Also opular as a green manure crop
- Suitable for Countryside Stewardship (CSS): AB2
- Sowing rate: 15kg / ha
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