SFS Wildlife Cover Crop Mix
Ref: MIXSFS4
This multi-species mix will provide a vital food source and cover over the autumn and winter months for birds and small mammals. The flowering species will also help to provide a source of pollen and nectar over the summer and autumn months.
Species breakdown in this mix
Sunflower
Sunflowers have been cultivated for their seeds for many centuries. In the UK we utilise them to provide food for farmland birds.
Linseed
For many years linseed, as known as flax was an important component of fabric and linen yarn, it is also important because of its seeds, from which linseed oil is obtained. In the Uk linseed can be a component of game cover mixtures and over-winter wild bird seed mixtures.
Red Millet
Red millet is a warm season, cultivated grass species. It has been grown for centuries for it seed, as a forage and human consumption. In the UK it is generally used as a game cover component, or in a winter bird food mixture to provide food during the hungry gap, when natural resources are exhausted.
White Millet
White millet is a warm season, cultivated grass species. It has been grown for centuries for it seed, as a forage and human consumption. In the UK it is generally used as a game cover component, or in a winter bird food mixture to provide food during the hungry gap, when natural resources are exhausted.
Phacelia
Phacelia is a rapidly growing, high biomass plant. It is a nitrogen holder and weed suppressor. Its eye catching purple flowers are particularly good at attracting bees and other beneficial insects.
Fodder Radish
Also commonly known as oil radish, fodder radish is a brassica, it is not a legume but it will hold any residual nitrogen in the soil, which it will then release as it breaks down over time. This species is slower to flower and go to seed than mustard and produces a deeper root system.
Mustard
Mustard is a rapidly growing, high biomass, nitrogen lifter for growing over the summer. It is one of the quickest growing, green manuring species and is very good at suppressing weeds.
Gold of Pleasure
Gold of Pleasure may also be known as camelina or false flax. It is a multi branched, seed bearing, member of the mustard family. Historically it has been cultivated as an agricultural crop. In the Uk it is generally used as a component of sown over-winter wild bird seed mixtures and game cover, due to its ability to produce lots of small seed bearing pods.
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Forage Rape
A quick growing, leafy brassica plant, this species provides a very palatable, high yielding, protein rich crop for livestock.
Brown Mustard
This is a quick growing winter hardy brassica, sometimes known as Indian mustard. It has had more interest recently due to its ability to supress certain soil borne nematodes in high value cash crops like potatoes and sugar beet, it could potentially be an alternative way of dealing with pest without using artificial nematicides, using a technique called bio-fumigation.
Crimson Clover
An annual legume and true clover, traditionally sown in the south east of England for over-winter sheep keep.
Berseem Clover
This is a short term legume also known as Egyptian clover. It provides fast growing biomass and nitrogen fixation when sown in warm soils.
Persian Clover
A legume species which is widely used across Europe. It is less common in the UK but can be a useful forage plant. This short term annual fixes nitrogen and is capable of rapid growth making it ideal for providing a quick boost to soil fertility where there is a window of 5-9 months. When in flower Persian clover has a particularly pleasing smell.
| Contents per Kg | % | kg | |
 | commercial Pioneer sunflower | 16.0 | 0.160 |
| certified linseed | 14.0 | 0.140 |
| red millet | 13.0 | 0.130 |
| white millet | 13.0 | 0.130 |
| certified phacelia | 2.0 | 0.020 |
| certified fodder radish | 12.0 | 0.120 |
| certified mustard | 10.0 | 0.100 |
| gold of Pleasure | 6.0 | 0.060 |
| certified forage rape | 4.0 | 0.040 |
| certified brown mustard | 2.0 | 0.020 |
| certified crimson clover | 4.0 | 0.040 |
| certified berseem clover | 3.0 | 0.030 |
| certified persian clover | 1.0 | 0.010 |
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