Summer Sown Game Cover
A range of items and mixtures that can be sown during the summer months - ideal for areas that may have failed due to establishment problems or poor spring weather.
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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.
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.
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).
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.
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Fodder Radish is a quick growing cover crop which scavenges nitrogen, produces large amount of organic matter and improves soil structure.
- Quick growing, produces high organic matter in short periods
- Suppresses weeds and deep roots benefit soil structure
- Ideal as a green manure crop sown in early autumn
- Effective as a standalone green cover or in mixtures
- Sowing rate: 15-25kg / ha
Fast-growing, quick to establish, and frost hardy. Ideal to sow in late summer or early autumn to provide cover that will last all winter.
- Rapid growing catch crop
- Excellent as a "rescue" mixture for patching failed crops
- Ideal for when a late sown cover crop is required
- Includes: Texsel Greens, Hybrid Brassica, Fodder Radish, Brown Mustard
- Sowing rate: 2.5 -4 kg per acre. Pack size: 10kg
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.
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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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