Brassicas & Cover Crop Seed

KSC Brassicas and Cover Crop Seed

Kitchen Seed Company offers a wide array of small seeds sure to fit into any blueprint. Our products can help reduce compaction, reduce erosion from surface runoff, help suppress weeds, and possibly offer some grazing benefits. These different varieties are sold by the pound making it simple to narrow down seeding rates. For the customers benefit, we offer a few pre-mixed blends that may simplify the process. But, we also offer our products as stand-alone products or we have the ability to mix any specific blend the customer may want.

Purple Top Turnips

Produces a 4 to 6 inch globe turnip with a bright purple crown and white base. Turnip has a sweet flavor. Semi-erect prolific greens provide good forage. 50 day maturity. Sow 3 lbs per acre, April to October.

Austrian Winter Peas

Good nitrogen-fixing capabilities
Can fix over 200 pounds of nitrogen per acre per year under good conditions
Cool-season legume
Hollow, slender and succulent stems
Low-growing, viney plant

Impact Forage Collards

Excellent for early summer through winter grazing
High forage/biomass production
Drought tolerant
Reduces soil erosion
Breaks up soil compaction
Builds organic matter
Nutrient recycling
Biofumigant
Weed suppression

Eco-Till Radish

Superior, deep penetrating taproot
Reduces soil compaction
Builds organic matter
Improves nutrient recycling
Excellent weed suppression
Enhances soil tilth

DH-3 ANNUAL RYEGRASS

Quick establishment
High forage yield
Excellent palatability
Great disease resistance
Good transition back to warm-season grasses

Dixie Crimson Clover

Adapted to low fertility soils with adequate drainage
Excellent for reduced-tillage farming systems
Great winter cover crop in annual rotations

Hairy Vetch

Ability to fix large quantities of nitrogen
Excellent cover crop that produces high biomass
Winterhardy
Provides a weed suppressing mulch for no-till corn and other crops

Triticale

Easy to grow and control
Excellent for grazing
High silage value
Excellent weed suppression
Quickly established cover crop
Outstanding erosion control
Excellent winter survival

Winter Rye Grain (Cereal Rye)

Fall planted, winterhardy species
Deep root penetration
Captures high levels of nitrogen and other nutrients
Reduces soil compaction
Late fall and early spring grazing as well as spring silage or hay

Winter Barley

Fall planted, winter hardy
Violetta and Calypso varieties
Friendly relationship with future crops
Sod based type root structure to slow soil erosion
Early spring green up
Excellent as a companion crop or alone
Grain harvest mid-June
Above average feed quality if grazed or post harvest feeding

KITCHEN SEED COMPANY, INC.

Brassicas & Cover Crop Seed

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