All Game Cover Seed Crops
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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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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
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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.
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
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.
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