All Cover Crops
Cover crops for game and forage cover. Buy Online or Call 0800 883 0169 for Advice. Boston Seeds are wholesale online seed suppliers for Private Individuals, Businesses and Sports Clubs
- All Season Game Maize Blend
- Ambush Millet Mix
- Artichokes
- Buckwheat
- Chicory (Perennial)
- Decoy Game Mix
- Double Gold Game Cover Maize
- Fodder Radish
- Forage Rape
- Four Ten
- Holdfast Canary Grass
- Jonty (Fungicide Treated)
- Keeper Kale
- Kwik Fix
- Late Cover Mix
- Linseed
- Millgame Millet Mix
- Mustard - White
- Northern Star Game Mix
- Overdrive - Quinoa/Kale Mix
- Quinoa
- Rapid Fire Game Maize
- Reed Canary Grass
- Silver Shot Game Cover Maize
- Sorghum Hybrid Dwarf
- Sorghum Lush Giant
- Sunflower - Dwarf
- Sunflower - Tall
- Sweet Clover - Yellow Blossom
- Thousand Head Kale
- Traditional Game Cover Mix
- Triticale
- White Millet
All Season Game Maize Blend
- A blend of 3 varieties of maize with differing maturity dates and plant types.
- This will produce early maturing cobs and later plant types with increased leaf area providing good cover.
- All varieties have high vigour for good early establishment to ensure sufficient plants for a good winter stand.
- The blend offers security where adverse conditions may affect establishment or growth.
- Treated with thiram (fungicide) and anthraquinone (bird-repellant).
- Packed in 50,000 seed units (1 acre).
Ambush Millet Mix
20% White Millet
80% Japanese Reed Millet
- Strong reed millet provides long season cover for flushing
- White millet will provide the feed to hold the birds in the cover
- Ideally suited for use as a wind proof belt or flushing point around maize
- Exceptionally winter hardy allowing it to be used right through the shooting season
Artichokes
The artichoke is a versatile plant in terms of soil type and geography.
- They can grow up to 6 feet tall
- Remain green until mid Autumn (or until frosted)
- Hold birds throughout the season
- Can be used for permanent cover, in inaccessible locations
- Plant similar to potatoes in ridges
Buckwheat
Chicory (Perennial)
- Creates tall, dense cover, bolting in its second year to create a flowering hedge.
- Good tolerance to drought, acid soils and major pests.
- Has high mineral content including zinc, potassium and copper
- Does not like very wet ground
- Sowing rate: 2kg/acre
- Pack size: 2kg/untreated
Decoy Game Mix
1.5 kg Red Millet
1.5 kg White Millet
2.0 kg Dwarf Sorghum
3.0 kg Intermediate Sorghum
- A combination of two types of Millet and two types of Sorghum.
- Provides an excellent mixture where both cover and feed required.
- It is necessary to broadcast to achieve optimum establishment.
- Ensure treated seed is well covered by harrowing and rolling.
- Sowing rate: 8kg/acre
- Pack size: 8kg/Fungicide treated
Double Gold Game Cover Maize
Fodder Radish
- A fast growing cover crop, ideal for failed crops.
- Speed of establishment aids weed suppression.
- Ideal as a green manure crop.
- If sown July will be ready to provide cover within 6 to 8 weeks
- Sowing rate: 2.5kg/acre
- Pack size: 5kg/untreated
Forage Rape
- Rapid establishment, medium-to-tall, palatable
- Above average dry matter yields.
- Good general disease resistance
- Sowing rate: 4kg (broadcast) / 2.5kg (direct drill) per acre
- Pack size: 5kg & 25kg / untreated
Four Ten
10.00kg Game Maize
4.00kg Dwarf Sorghum
14kg
- Dwarf Sorghum will provide added warmth and cover below maize.
- It will provide cover throughout the season and some feed.
- Both crops have similar husbandry techniques.
Holdfast Canary Grass
(Phalaris Aquatica)
- A valuable perennial nesting cover which will last up to 10 years if thinned out annually
- Will grow on poor, more exposed sites
- When established will provide 3 feet tall thick clumpy plants
- Suitable for holding, driving and a preferred crop for nesting
Jonty (Fungicide Treated)
Keeper Kale
Keeper has a high leaf to stem ratio that stands well with good resistance to lodging and a high dry matter content ideal for autumn or winter utilisation.
- sow at 2 - 3 kilos per acre
- Rovral, Thiram, Seperit treated
Kwik Fix
1.50 kg Mustard
3.50 kg Fodder Radish
5 kg
- The best Kwik Fix crop to replace or patch failed spring game covers
- A unique combination of the fastest growing game cover species
- Fodder radish can provide 2 feet of quality cover in approximately 6 weeks (subject to weather)
- Fodder radish has the main benefit of being immune to Brassica sickness (clubroot)
- Mustard increases the cover element and prolongs the cover period
- Will not provide full season cover
Late Cover Mix
0.35 kg Mustard
3.00 kg Forage Rape
1.65 kg Stubble Turnips
5 kg
- A versatile and easy cover to establish in all areas
- A rapidly establishing and maturing mixture providing winter cover
- The best mixture to broadcast after cereals
- Will grow to a height of between 2-3 feet
- This mixture will tolerate some drought conditions
Linseed
Millgame Millet Mix
50% Red Millet
50% White Millet
- Can be grown straight or is ideal for sowing with game maize or kale
- For best results with maize, drill maize as normal, then broadcast or drill Millgame at right angles to the maize
- Combined together maize and millgame will provide a steady release of birds from a block rather than an explosion
- Millgame can provide approximately 1-2000 Kg of high protein feed per acre
Mustard - White
- Mustard is a relatively inexpensive and highly versatile cover crop.
- Can be sown alone or as a companion to other species.
- Ideal for early cover, killed off by frost will create shelter for birds.
- Popular as a green manure crop - broadcast at 10 kilos per acre.
- Cover crop sowing rate - 5kilos/acre
- Pack size - 5kg and 25kg untreated
Northern Star Game Mix
10.0 kg Triticale
7.0 kg Tic Beans
1.0 kg Kale
0.5 kg Yellow Blossom Clover
1.5 kg Forage Rape
- Ideal for use in colder,more exposed areas.
- Will provide cover & feed as well as being a haven for wildlife throughout season.
- Advisable to sow in wide rows to enable birds to have free access.
- Sowing rate: 20kg/acre
- Pack size: 20kg/untreated
Overdrive - Quinoa/Kale Mix
50% Quinoa
50% Keeper Kale
- Benefits from the excellent cover of kale and feeding potential of the quinoa
- This is the most universal cover and feed mixture
- The quinoa will provide high protein feed with kale keeping the birds dry
- Can be used on set aside ground
Quinoa
- Quinoa is capable of producing a plentiful amount of seed and is a popular choice of crop for holding partridge and pheasant.
- Many species of seed-eating song birds are also attracted to the crop.
- Commonly grown with Kale, the Quinoa provides cover and feed until it begins to collapse in the first frosts with the Kale providing more permanent cover.
- Sowing rate: 2kg/acre
- Pack size: 1 kilo/untreated
Rapid Fire Game Maize
- A good hybrid selection with high germination that will provide feed and cover.
- Treated with thiram fungicide and Anthraquinone (bird repellant)
- Packed in 50,000 seed units (1 acre).
Reed Canary Grass
(Phalaris Arundenacia)
- Suitable for use in exposed northern sites with its very good frost and winter hardiness
- Strong stems and thick leaves provide reliable cover
- Similar characteristics to conventional canary grass with the added benefits
Silver Shot Game Cover Maize
Sorghum Hybrid Dwarf
- A short large leaf variety of sorghum
- Very good standing power
- Ideal cover providing a warm holding area for birds
Pack size: 1 ACRE.
Sorghum Lush Giant
- Sorghum and Sudanese grass hybrid with atrazine tolerance
- Produces a dense cover that can grow 3 metres tall
- Lush is a late flowering variety developed to provide plenty of cover through the key winter months
- Deep roots make Lush drought resistant
- Lush sorghum works well as a shelterbelt for warmth around maize or artichokes
- Sorghum is useful for flushing as it encourages the birds to lift above the cover
Pack size: 1 ACRE.
Sunflower - Dwarf
- A stiff stemmed, shorter hybrid variety
- An effective feed crop for southern shoots
- May be difficult to utilise by game if not swiped down
- Best results when sown as part of a game mix or with a genuine cover crop such as kale
Pack size: 1 ACRE.
Sunflower - Tall
- Variable height, but generally tall, uncertified.
- For best utilisation of this crop it should be "swiped down" to enable game birds to reach the seeds.
- Sowing rate: 5kg/acre
- Pack size: 5kg/untreated
Sweet Clover - Yellow Blossom
- A biennial plant which can persist for several years.
- Its sweet smell and copious production of nectar is highly attractive to insects, which in turn attract game birds and wildilfe.
- Sown with Kale will help provide cover in the first year.
- Being leguminous and deep rooting it is invaluable for improving soil structure and fertility.
- Sowing rate: 2.5 kilos/acre
- Pack size: 1 kilo/untreated
Thousand Head Kale
Thousand Head is a slender stemmed variety bearing leafy foliage with very high D value and dry matter content. It has excellent winter hardiness providing forage for feeding after Christmas. Thousand Head can supply approximately 90 tonnes/ha of green forage matter.
- sow at 2 - 3 kilos per acre
- Rovral, Thiram, Seperit treated
Traditional Game Cover Mix
1.50kg Red Millet
1.75 kg White Millet
0.75 kg Sunflower
3.00 kg Game Maize
1.50 kg Buckwheat
1.00 kg Kale
0.25 kg Mustard
0.25 kg Forage Rape
10 kilos
Triticale
- A wheat/rye hybrid cereal providing good cover and feed in marginal low fertility areas where it will thrive with little input.
- Useful in situations where maize and millet are not options and where Brassica Sickness is a problem.
- Good winter hardiness and disease resistance.
- Sowing rate: 50kgs/acre
- Pack size: 25kg (treatments various)
White Millet
- Will produce a plentiful supply of small seeds for birds if grown on its own
- Often sown in conjunction with maize or kale to provide feed and flushing areas
- It is vigorous and will grow to a height of 90cm
- White millet is thicker leaved and has a higher seed production than red millet
- Ideally suited as a wind break
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