All Game Cover Seed Crops
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Buckwheat is a fast-growing annual crop, with a dense canopy for excellent weed suppression. Buckwheat scavenges phosphates, helping to reduce leaching.
- Rapid establishment and growth make it an ideal short-season crop
- A dense canopy works efficiently as an excellent weed suppressant
- Nectar-rich, helping boost pollinators and other beneficial insects
- Scavenges phosphates from the soil for future crops
- Sowing rate: 50kg / ha
A new variety with the potential to deliver high dry matter yields making it and ideal choice for dairy, beef or lamb producers.
- A taller stemmed variety with excellent resistance to lodging.
- High leaf to stem ratio.
- Available untreated or treated with Start-uP & Sepiret.
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre.
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).
Boston Seeds are proud to supply the EnviroSeeds range for biodiversity and sustainable farming.
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
Giant Sorghum is a cross between Sorghum and Sudan Grass Hybrid. It can grow over two metres tall providing excellent cover.
- Produces warm and dense cover that can grow 2-3 metres tall.
- Deep roots help it to withstand drought conditions
- Works well as a windbreak protect more vulnerable crops
- Sorghum is useful for flushing as it encourages the birds to lift above the cover
- Sowing rate: 12kg per acre.
Keeper Kale will provide excellent cover and maximum protection for your birds.
- A shorter variety with excellent lodging resistance
- High leaf to stem ratio, providing excellent leaf cover
- Winter hardy and tested for germination and vigour to ensure the maximum establishment
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre.
A combination of four rapidly establishing species to give season-long cover. Will provide cover of 2-3 feet in height.
- A versatile and easy cover to establish in all areas.
- A rapidly establishing and maturing mixture providing winter cover.
- Used as a patching crop when spring crops fail, will tolerate drought conditions.
- 75% Forage rape, 14% White Mustard, 11% Fodder Radish
- Sowing rate: 5 kg per acre. Pack size: 10kg.
Pinfold Kale will provide excellent yields in a short period of time.
- Fast growing and ideal for early sowings
- Flexible utilisation, summer use as well
- Excellent digestibility
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre. Pack size 2kg
Spaniel is a summer sown, drought tolerant game cover mixture which is easy to establish. Combines four different seed species.
- Drought tolerant mixture which can be sown in the summer months.
- Can be used for patching failed spring sown crops.
- Easy to establish, can be broadcast directly into cereal stubble.
- Combines; Mustard, Fodder Radish, Interval Rape/Kale, Carbon.
- Sowing rate: 10kg per hectare. Pack size 5kg.
A blend of Winfred Hybrid Brassica and Forage Rape. A vigourous and quick growing seed mixture making it ideal for failed crops.
- Provide cover for a whole season
- Vigorous and quick growing, ideal for replacing failed crops or patching
- Good disease and bolting resistance
- 50% Winfred Hybrid Brassica and 50% Forage Rape
- Pack size: 5kg untreated
- Sowing rate: 2.5kg per acre.
Japanese Reed Millet is a stronger and hardier member of the millet family when compared to Red and White Millet.
- Stronger plant than others of the millet family
- Improved winter hardiness
- Mix with white millet to provide an excellent cover and feed crop
- Sowing rate: 5kg per acre.
A combination of three excellent game cover kale varieties will provide a tall varied canopy over an extended period of time.
- Provides superb cover.
- Kale provides cover for two shooting seasons.
- The flowering kale will attract insects and songbirds.
- 40% Goldeneye, 30% Gruner Angeliter, 30% Inka
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre. Pack size: 2kg
New and unique game cover crop which combines the excellent cover of kale with the easy and rapid establishment of mustard.
- Produces amazing cover in a short period of time
- Excellent frost tolerant cover by November
- Can be used for new sowing or for patching failed crops
- Best sown in June or July.
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre. Pack size: 2kg
Quinoa will provide cover and a plentiful supply of seed making it a popular crop for holding partridges, pheasants and attracting seed eating song birds.
- Produces a number of seeds to provide a valuable source of food
- Also attractive to many species of seed-eating song birds
- Often grown with kale as it begins to collapse with first frosts
- Available ready blended with Kale, see Overdrive Seed Mixture
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre. Pack size: 2 kg
Interval is a hybrid variety, produced by crossing rape and kale together. Creates a thick, leafy canopy only a short period of time.
- Fast growing properties of rape with the greater leaf canopy of kale.
- Winter hardy for a full season of cover.
- Grows to a height of 80-100cm.
- Sowing Rate: 2kg per acre.
Ethiopian mustard is a fast growing frost hardy, brassica which produces a dense leafy canopy and acts as an excellent weed suppressor.
- Produces a dense leafy canopy to supress weeds
- Fast and easy to establish providing rapid ground cover
- Frost hardy cover crop ideal for use in later sowings
- Can tollerate and improve poor soil conditions
- Sowing rate: 5kg / ha
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Late Shot is late maturing and selected for its good standing ability.
- Produces a small immature cob that rarely develops past the 'bright white' stage.
- Very late maturity and of less interest to rats and badgers.
- Will still be looking good at the end of the shooting season.
- Late maturing varieties - cob maturity rate can vary depending on the growing season, time of sowing and husbandry
- Fungicide and bird repellent treated.
- Sowing rate: 50,000 seeds per acre. Packsize: 1 acre (50,000 seeds).
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Goldeneye kale is a giant type bred for the game cover market, selected for the optimum combination of height and leaf production.
- Leafy top, strong stem, good winter hardiness and good tolerance to disease, making it the ideal choice for game cover use
- Goldeneye achieves a higher vigour score than Caledonian kale and better club root tolerance.
- Sowing rate: 3kg per acre.
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Golden Retriever game cover seed mixture will provide a full season of cover as well as steady supply of seeds to hold the birds in the covers.
- Excellent holding potential for pheasants and partridges.
- Tried and tested reliable mixture.
- Stomp Aqua herbicide tolerant.
- Contains; Dwarf Sorghum, Dwarf Sunflowers, Fodder Radish and Millet blend.
- Sowing rate: 24kg per hectare. Pack size: 12.5kg.
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Springer game cover seed mixture is ideal for areas which are difficult to sow on an annual basis. A blend of Perennial Chicory and Triticale.
- Triticale provides feed for the first year, Perennial Chicory gives permanent cover.
- Chicory is drought tolerant and will grow to a height of up to 1.5m.
- Triticale is resistant to damage from rabbits.
- Contains: Perennial Chicory and Triticale.
- Sowing rate: 40kg per hectare. Pack size: 20kg.
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Labrador is designed to be used on cooler or more exposed northern sites. Features Triticale which is resistant to rabbits.
- Ideal for use on cold or exposed northern sites and will tolerate difficult soil types.
- Full season cover for up to two years.
- Creates ideal habitat for brood rearing.
- Contains; Triticale, Mustard, Kale, Linseed and Quinoa.
- Sowing rate: 40kg per hectare. Pack size: 20kg.
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Setter game cover seed mixture is a traditional mixture which combines a broad range of species. Provides two full seasons of cover.
- Full season cover for up to two years.
- Very reliable mixture with excellent holding and feed potential.
- Combines; Phacelia, Sweet Clover, Millet Blend, Maize, Mustard, Kale, Buckwheat and Sunflowers.
- Sowing rate: 25kg per hectare. Pack size: 12.5kg.
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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
- Game Maize (treated), White Millet, Red Millet, Buckwheat, Sorghum, Kale, Sunflower, White Mustard, Forage Rape, Gold of Pleasure, Phacelia
- Sowing Rate: 10kg per acre. Packsize: 10kg
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High protein content and high dry matter yield. Late flowering variety that will perform well whether sown for summer, autumn or winter use.
- Good winter hardiness.
- Clubroot tolerant.
- Sowing rate: 2.5kg per acre.
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