Description
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Green Cover's Warm Season Soil Builder is a highly diverse mix of warm season species, perfect for adding diversity to your garden in the summer. If you're revamping an old bed or letting a bed rest for the year this is a perfect mix for you. Note the mix will get quite tall (6-8 feet). You can mow it if you would prefer the mix to not reach that height, but you will cut off many of the flowering plants
This mix will cold kill when winter temperatures reach 32 °F.
Not sure where to start? Check out our Quick Start Guide on Cover Crops in the Garden.
Ingredients
Cowpeas, Non-GMO Soybeans, Mung Beans, Sunn Hemp, Sorghum Sudan, Millet, African Cabbage, Rapeseed, Brown Mustard, Sunflower, Buckwheat, Okra, Flax, Elevate'd Fungi Inoculant, and RhizoBac X-Tend Inoculant
Although these seeds are not certified organic, our seeds are non-GMO and not treated with pesticides. All inoculants are manufactured to organic standards.
Planting
Broadcast Seeding Rate: 1 lbs/1000 square feet (45 lbs per acre)
Broadcast and lightly incorporate when soil temperatures are 60 degrees Fahrenheit and rising. Planting should be completed by mid-summer.
Termination
When planted and terminated properly, cover crops can act as an excellent mulch, preventing weed seeds from germinating.
In climates that reach 32 °F lows in the winter, Warm Season Soil Builder will winter kill. At this point, you may choose to remove the biomass or crimp the terminated cover crop to act as mulch for your following crop.
For no-till applications, we recommend terminating Warm Season Soil Builder with a flail mower followed by a tarp for 2 weeks before your next planting.
Warm Season Soil Builder can also be terminated by tilling and incorporating as a green manure.
Where the context allows, grazing can be effective at terminating if it is followed by a silage tarp.
On a very small scale, cutting with a hand sickle or turning the soil over with a shovel and following with a tarp can also be effective.
Inoculants
This product is pre-inoculated with Elevate'd Fungi and RhizoBac X-Tend to increase the biological activity in your soil.
- Elevate'd Fungi is a seed applied inoculant derived from natural products designed to stimulate seed germination, increase root and biological biomass in the soil, and improve soil structure. OMRI status has been applied for and is pending.
- Rhizo-Bac X-Tend features high concentrations of multi-species nitrogen fixing rhizobia for peas, vetch, cowpeas, sunn hemp and soybeans, Additionally, free living nitrogen fixing and phosphorus solubilizing bacteria combine for a robust broad spectrum seed treatment for your cover crops. We use Elevate'd Fungi as the liquid carrier for this dry inoculant to ensure proper coating on every seed for every mix. This product is OMRI approved.*
*OMRI Certificates: OMRI Certificate for Elevate'd Fungi; OMRI Certificate for RhizoBac X-Tend
The Six Principles of Soil Health
Cover crops are most effective at building your soil when you follow the principles of soil health:
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Keep the Soil Covered
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Maximize Biodiversity
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Integrate Livestock
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Maintain Living Roots
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Minimize Disturbance
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Know Your Context
About Green Cover
Not all seed is created equal
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Clean seed? Check.
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Excellent germination? Check.
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Evenly mixed ratios? Check.
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Pre-added biology with helpful microbes? Check.
When you’re ready to amp up the diversity in your cover crops look no further than Green Cover.
We believe that the same soil health principles that work in large-scale farming apply to the home garden. Our expertly designed pre-made mixes are some of the most common mixes we create, designed to improve soil health, no matter the size of your field (or garden bed!).
Regenerative Resources
Drawing upon our team’s expertise and experience, we collaborate with farmers, ranchers and soil health researchers to produce a bounty of free, educational resources. Each year, we release the Soil Health Resource Guide, webinar series, conferences, field days and more in order to help you to make informed decisions about your soils.
Faith Based, Farmer Built, Family Owned
Like many farmers, faith and family go hand in hand with the day to day operations. We built our company to help people regenerate God’s creation to be enjoyed for many generations after us. Together with our family and employees, we’ve built this dream, and we’re all here to serve you and watch your soil health dreams become a reality.
Planting Instructions
Timing
Seeding Rate
