All Game Cover Seed Crops
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Interval is a hybrid variety, produced by crossing rape and kale together. Creates a thick, leafy canopy to utilise in as little as 10-12 weeks.
- 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.
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
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
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
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 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% Hybrid Brassica and 50% Forage Rape
- Pack size: 5kg untreated
- Sowing rate: 2.5kg per acre.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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
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).
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.
Boston Seeds are proud to supply the EnviroSeeds range for biodiversity and sustainable farming.
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
Short stemmed, sturdy, broad-leaved and has a substantial seed head. Its shorter growing habit is ideal for exposed sites.
- Average height 1 - 1.25m.
- Very good standing power due to short growth habit.
- Ideal cover providing a warm holding area for birds.
- Sowing rate 12kg per acre.
A crop well suited to poorer and nutrient deficient soils. Fast maturing, free-branching plant producing seed attractive to birds.
- Useful mixture for exposed areas.
- Sow April/May for use from September onwards.
- Available mixed with Triticale, Barley and Linseed, see Partridge Mix.
- Annual specie providing cover up until Christmas.
- Sowing rate: 5kg per acre. Pack size: 5kg.
The name says it all! Kwik Fix provides rapid cover for late sown or for patching failed spring sown game cover crops.
- Ideal mixture to replace or patch failed spring game cover.
- A unique combination of the fastest growing game cover species.
- Can provide cover up until Christmas.
- 80% Fodder Radish, 20% White Mustard
- Sowing rate: 5 kg per acre. Pack size: 10kg.
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
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
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.
Broadshot is a mixture of selected species that contribute to feed and cover.
- An excellent mixture where both cover and feed are required
- Can be left to regenerate for a second year
- Facilitates economical weed control
- Contains: Buckwheat, Goldeneye Kale, Phacelia, White Millet, Forage Rape, Red Millet, Japanese Reed Millet, Quinoa, Yellow Blossom Clover
- Sowing rate: 6kg per acre. Pack size: 10kg.
Reed Canary Grass (Phalaris arundinacea) is similar to Canary Grass (Aquatica) however it is much hardier.
- A perennial species which can last for 10 years
- Suitable for exposed northern sites - good frost and winter hardiness
- Strong stems and thick leaves provide reliable cover for ground-nesting birds
- Similar to conventional canary grass with improved hardiness
- Inoculated with rhizobia
- Sowing rate: 2.5kg per acre Pack Size: 2.5kg
Canary Grass (Phalaris aquatica) gives excellent long term nesting cover for partridges and pheasants.
- A perennial species which can last for 10 years.
- Perfect for poor quality sites where annual sowing is difficult or impractical.
- Can grow to 60cm in first year and over 150cm in following years.
- Requires sowing in wide rows to prevent it from becoming to thick
- Sowing rate: 2.5 kg/acre Pack Size: 2.5kg.
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