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A cover crop is a crop planted primarily to manage soil erosion, soil fertility, soil quality, water, weeds, pests, diseases, biodiversity and wildlife in an agroecosystem. Cover crops are of interest in sustainable agriculture as many of them improve the sustainability of agroecosystem attributes and may also indirectly improve qualities of neighboring natural ecosystems. One of the primary uses of cover crops is to increase soil fertility. source/wikipedia Learn more ... What Are Cover Crops and How To Use Them in Your Garden >
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Cover Crop - Clover (Crimson) 
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Cover Crop - Clover (Crimson)
More Product Details »Quick Overview • Biennial• Bees love clover! Details Planted spring, summer or fall, this quick growing clover is the most versatile variety for a green manure to enrich soil. Needs good moisture. Flowers are used for tea. Excellent forage and cover crop. Planting rate: ½ lb. per 1,000 sq. ft.
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Cover Crop - Buckwheat
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Cover Crop - Buckwheat
More Product Details »Quick Overview • Annual• Good for breaking up soil! • Planting rate: 1 lb. per 1,000 sq. ft. Details Especially valuable for its release of phosphorus, buckwheat also contributes a significant amount of organic matter. Very competitive with weeds, good for breaking up the soil. Can grow two crops in the north. Bees love Buckwheat! Good bugs love buckwheat! Seed when ground is well warmed and after last spring frost; it has no frost tolerance. When June planted, in 35 days it is waist high, in bloom and ready to plow under. Good to follow with a fall crops of rye and Austrian winter pea. Just rake in some seed after harvesting an annual crop and buckwheat will keep out the weeds and look great doing it. Green Lacewing adults will feast on the nectar then deposit their "aphid lion" eggs on nearby garden crops.
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Cover Crop - Clover (White Dutch)
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Cover Crop - Clover (White Dutch)
More Product Details »Quick Overview • Perennial• Chokes out weeds Details Perennial. A low-growing perennial clover that forms a nice mat perfect for pathways between beds. It competes well against quckgrass and, although the plants grow over into the beds, they can easily be pulled back with a rake before mowing. As a green manure/cover crop, it fixes nitrogen and since it's perennial, can be plowed in at any time. Pre-inoculated seed. Plant in early spring: April-May. Planting rate: ½ lb per 1,000 sq. ft.; 8-10 lbs per acre for dry land, 10-12 lbs per acre for irrigated land.
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Cover Crop - Hairy Vetch
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Cover Crop - Hairy Vetch
More Product Details »Quick Overview • Annual• Nitrogen-rich• Hardy • Vicia villosa Cool season legume cover crop Details Valuable soil-improvement crop. Vigorous legume produces huge amounts of nitrogen-rich biomass for turning under. Can be planted in the spring through late summer. Late summer (late August early September) planted vetch will winter over, growing vigorously the following spring. Can be mixed with oats or rye for maximum weed competition. Hardy; will also sprout in the spring if planted before the ground freezes in November (like winter rye). Demands fairly fertile soil and adequate rainfall as is shallow-rooted. Livestock caution: Seeds are poisonous. Planting rate: 1 lb per 1,000 sq ft
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Cover Crop - Clover (Yellow Sweet Blossom)
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Cover Crop - Clover (Yellow Sweet Blossom)
More Product Details »Quick Overview • Biennial• Vigorous • Sow Spring & Summer Details Tremendous green manure and bee pasture. Vigorous grower with long tap roots to help break up compact soil. Can produce up to 125 lb. of nitrogen per acre. Sow in the spring or summer. Planting rate: 1/2 lb per 1,000 sq ft
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Cover Crop - Fall & Winter Rye
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More Product Details »Quick Overview • Perennial• Suppress weeds Details Very hardy, valued for its ability to break up hard pan soils with a profusion of roots and root hairs. Suppresses weeds, adaptable to a wide range of soil and climate conditions. Can plant from early spring until the ground freezes as a winter cover crop. Plant in fall with winter peas for nitrogen, organic matter and weed suppression. Planting rate: 3lbs per 1,000 sq ft;
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Cover Crop - Rapeseed
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Cover Crop - Rapeseed
More Product Details »Rapeseed is also used as a cover crop in the US during the winter as it prevents soil erosion, produces large amounts of biomass, suppresses weeds and can improve soil tilth with its root system.Rapeseed is the third-largest source of vegetable oil. Rapeseed is the second-largest source of protein meal in the world. Rapeseed oil is used as diesel fuel, either as biodiesel, straight in heated fuel systems, or blended with petroleum distillates for powering motor vehicles.Rapeseed (Brassica napus subsp. napus), is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed, which naturally contains appreciable amounts of toxic erucic acid. Rapeseed is the third-largest source of vegetable oil and second-largest source of protein meal in the world. Source and Photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed
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