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Cover Crop Super Mix
  • Cover Crop Super Mix

Cover Crop Super Mix

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A quick-establishing cover crop blend of oats, vetch and phacelia, ideal for fast ground cover, compaction reduction, nitrogen fixation and boosting biodiversity.

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Cover Crop Super Mix

Cover Crop Super Mix brings together 80% Oats, 15% Vetch and 5% Phacelia for a blend that's all about speed and versatility.

The oats germinate quickly and put on vigorous top growth, smothering weeds and protecting bare soil almost as soon as they're up. Vetch threads through the sward fixing nitrogen as it goes, building up a reserve for whatever crop follows, while the phacelia adds a splash of colour and a magnet for bees and hoverflies, giving the mix a biodiversity boost that a straight oats-and-vetch blend wouldn't have.

It's a genuinely all-purpose mix, equally at home filling a gap between vegetable crops or protecting bare allotment ground over the growing season. Best sown in spring or early summer.

Common Questions

Is Cover Crop Super Mix winter hardy? No - the oats and phacelia in this blend are not reliably frost hardy, so it's best treated as a spring/summer cover crop and dug in before the first hard frosts rather than left to overwinter.

Will Cover Crop Super Mix attract pollinators? Yes, the phacelia component is particularly good for this - it produces bright purple-blue flowers that bees and hoverflies are drawn to, so leaving a patch to flower before digging in gives a useful nectar boost.

How much seed do I need to sow Cover Crop Super Mix? Sow at a rate of around 5 grams per square metre (20kg per acre) for good, even coverage.

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