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Indiana

looking for a good spring cover crop mix for a patch I am planning on resting this year. Would like to plant one mix early spring and follow with another cover crop mix in late August to finish out the year. Any one out there have any good combination of cover crop mixes that would work in the spring and late summer? Thanks

4/7/2014 8:12:09 PM

Midway, UT

For our area winter rye seems to be a good one for the spring. I've planted sorghum sudan grass in the summer a couple of times and it is great. Lots of biomass and if you cut it the roots will grow real deep into the ground. It kind of grows like corn and myco is supposed to love it. You would need to till it in before it frosts however. It doesn't like the cold.

4/7/2014 9:03:55 PM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

Annual ryegrass mixed with berseem clover in the spring will provide nitrogen and organic matter. Berseem will not come back if you allow it to flower before cutting. Follow it up with winter rye which will come back the following spring and help suppress weeds. All three species are compatible with mycorrhizae.

4/7/2014 10:05:14 PM

The Port

Buck Wheat germs faster

4/8/2014 1:34:27 PM

Alex, IN

I was told to use oats by the cover crop specialist here in southern Illinois.

4/8/2014 9:34:57 PM