Green manures

Leafy, long lasting leguminous plant with glowing yellow flowers growing up to 20-30 cm tall. Undemanding, deep rooting and suitable for flower mixes on dryer sites. Likes limestone soils. Very good insect pasture specially attractive to butterflies...

Slow growing when young. Grows well in light to medium soil (18-60 ground points). Deep root penetration, good nitrogen fixer, improves soil structure. This variety of blue lupin (Lupinus angustifolius) also produces white flowers. Not recommended fo...

Quick growing, ground covering, bee plant. Rotation neutral and dry conditions. Compact growth and relatively sturdy variety, killed off in the winter. Grows to 80 cm high. Sow till end of August. Sowing depth: 1-2 cm.

Mixture contains 25 % red clover, 40 % perennial rye grass, 35 % Italian rye grass (the mix may vary). Sowing depth: ca. 1 cm.

Very sturdy flax with delicate, sky-blue flowers. Early and long-lasting flowering period. Very healthy plants. High oil content. Heat-loving plant with vigorous taproot, specially interesting for summer mixtures. Sowing depth: 1-2 cm.Flax 'Lirina' is an ancient cultivated plant with delicate, sky-blue flowers and a long flowering period. The drought-tolerant plants develop strong taproots for soil loosening. Blue flax is rotationally neutral and is popular with insects. Sow from ...

A one or two year clover variety with low demands on the soil. Fast growing with a very ramified root complex. Grows up to 50 cm high. Good nectar plant. Excellent winter cover crop when sown in August and September. Only one cut is generally possibl...

Several cuts possible, suitable for one year clover grass ley, quick early development, rapid soil coverage, nitrogen fixer. Sow till end of July. Sowing depth: 1-2 cm.

Healthy, frost hardy large legume with good and fast growth. Because it can be sown early, it is excellent as a preceding crop especially to heavy feeders when sown early - from end of February. If well supplied with calcium (pH should be kept above ...

Green manure plant that cleanses soil of nematodes. Very vigorous, strong roots. Sowing depth: 3-4 cm.

Perrennial mixture. Since lucerne (65 %) is frequently slow to establish, some red clover (15 %) is included. The grasses (perennial ryegrass 15 %, Festuca 5 %) help to repress weeds. From the second year on the deep and powerful lucerne roots will a...

Good ground covering, profusely flowering marigold mixture. Good for field border strips and bare ground. Improves soil structure, dies off in frost. Sowing depth: 1-2 cm.

Perennial, very frost hardy and undemanding green manure plant. Tillers strongly and forms a thick root mass, good as winter catch crop, grows quickly even during drought. Sowing depth: 1-2 cm.

Quick growing summer clover, not winter hardy. With its high protein content and good regenerative power, it can be cut several times well into the autumn. The intense honey scented flowers make excellent bee pasture. Sow mid April to mid August. Thr...

Produces good soil structure and is a first class food plant for honey bees, bumble bees etc. March sowings come into flower by July, later sowings to the beginning of September produce good green manure and are killed off by the frost. October sowin...

A mix of vigorous varieties that germinate quickly and rapidly cover the ground. The "Rapid Ground Cover mix" consists of buckwheat, phacelia, fodd radish and mustard. Suitable for all situations. Sowing depth: 1-2 cm.

Winter hardy green manure/fodder mixture of rye and vetch. Stops winter soil leaching, strongly surpresses weeds. Sowing depth: 2-3 cm.

Specially good on dry, shallow soils not lacking in lime. Perennial, winter hardy legume. Can withstand drought due to deep network of roots. Much cultivated as a protein rich fodder plant and nitrogen fixing soil improver. Rich pink flowers, with a ...

Serradella is a robust, white-pink flowering legume often grown before a heavy feeding crop. It is slow to start growing, sensitive to lime and prefers sour, loamy sandy soils. It is not winter hardy but does grow at low temperatures and can resist u...

Small seeded, rapid growing green manure and protein rich fodder plant. Strong weed suppression with its large amount of green mass, strong root penetration, good soil structure, high level of nitrogen fixing. Not winter hardy. Sow 2-5 cm deep....

Good green manure plant with a large green mass, can also be used as fresh fodder or as silage. Can be left standing over winter as cover for helpful beneficial organism. Can be sown till the end of August. To produce flowers it should be sown by the...

Tagetes patula is a strain specially useful for controlling root nematodes (up to 95 %). Plenty of green matter to repress weeds. Sow end of May to mid July. Sowing depth: 1 cm.

A low growing white clover variety, well suited for undersowing. Bulks up well and has a rapid regrowth. Minimal winter dieback. Up to 15 cm of fine root growth. For grass leys down for more than one year. Sowing depth: 1-2 cm.

An annual, inexpensive mix for flowering strips with plants to attract and specially designed with the market gardener in mind. Contains: Buckwheat, phazelie, sunflower, borage, lupin, Egyptian Clover, Persian clover, summer vetch, serradella, mother...

Winter hardy catch-crop mixture for turning under in spring. Mix consists of winter peas, rye grass and winter vetch. Sowing depth: 4-5 cm.

The winter vetch with its deep rooting habit, counts as one of the best winter catch crops for enriching the soil and imbuing it with readily available organic materials. Excellent as a preceeding crop especially to heavy feeders. Sowing depth: 2-5 c...

Very quick growing, undemanding and leafy catch crop. A late flowering variety that copes fairly well with drought. Rapid ground cover plant that suppresses weeds. Should not be grown before Brassica crops. Sowing depth: 1-3 cm.