The best choice for fast, cool-season germination. Captures soil nutrients in the fall to release in spring when worked into the soil. Can reach up to 5 feet! Uses: Erosion Control, Green Manure, Nitrogen Scavenger, No Till, Organic Matter (Biomass),...
The best choice for fast, cool-season germination. Captures soil nutrients in the fall to release in spring when worked into the soil. Can reach up to 5 feet! Cereal Rye (Secale cereale L.): Cool season, grass, Annual or perennial, Upright plant growth,...
A tall growing wheat that is great cover for game birds! Egyptian Wheat is a tall growing wheat that bears loose seed heads containing an abundance of seed. Seed will mature approximately 110 days after emergence.
It grows quickly at heights up to 7 feet. Great for livestock forage, but should be grazed only when mature and never after a frost as it turns toxic. Produces heavy amounts of organic matter and suppresses weeds.
* This species is a rhizomatous perennial grass forming clumps of hairy stems up to 1.4 meters tall. Five to 10 leaves are located along the stem. * Dichanthelium clandestinum is a species of grass known by the common name deertongue.
The best choice for fast, cool-season germination. Captures soil nutrients in the fall to release in spring when worked into the soil. Uses: Erosion Control, Green Manure, Nitrogen Scavenger, No Till, Organic Matter (Biomass), Weed Suppression<
Tends to stay off the ground and cluster making for easy picking. Referred to as a “Knuckle Hull” because of the big, plump peas. Bush type cowpea producing heavy yields of purple pods.
The twigs are grayish-yellow, stout, with large triangular leaf scars. The winter buds are slender, pointed, 1–2 cm long, yellowish brown, and resinous. * It is a large tree growing to 20–40 m tall and with a trunk up to 1.8 m diameter, one of the...
California Blackeye #46 plants are more erect than California Blackeye #5. Try with for maximum Nitrogen fixation. Similar to California Blackeye #5 but with smaller seeds. The seeds are a typical blackeye type of Southern peas with cream-colored seed...
* It bears plentiful clusters of fuzzy white flowers and bluish-white berries. This shrub is most often found near water, usually directly on the bank of a water source. * Cornus glabrata is a species of dogwood native to California and Oregon and known...
Of nitrogen per acre. Can be used as a cover crop between rows of vegetable crops if mowed to maintain manageability. Uses: Bees & Beneficial Insects, Chicken Forage, Compaction Control, Deer Attractant, Erosion Control, Forage, Green Manure, Nitrogen...
A very fast grower that is a great cover crop. Ryegrass (Lolium sp.) Uses: Erosion Control, Green Manure, Nitrogen Scavenger, No Till, Organic Matter (Biomass), Weed Suppression Can scavenge as much as 200 pounds of nitrogen per acre.
A bush southern pea with early maturity and good disease resistance. Named Quickpick because it matures in about 60 days. Try with for maximum Nitrogen fixation. The pods are dark-purple and about seven to eight inches long containing nine to eleven,...
The twigs are grayish-yellow, stout, with large triangular leaf scars. The winter buds are slender, pointed, 1–2 cm long, yellowish brown, and resinous. * It is a large tree growing to 20–40 m tall and with a trunk up to 1.8 m diameter, one of the...
Alamo originates from Live Oak County, Texas. It is late maturing and was developed as a renewable biofuel resource for the southern U.S. Recommended for pasture mixes, erosion control and soil stabilization.
A useful green manure plant, fixing atmospheric nitrogen. Yellow flowers from May to July. Medium fertility, slightly acid, clay like, and loamy soils. * Lotus corniculatus is a common flowering plant native to grassland temperate Eurasia and North Africa...
Collection Locale: China
Common Name: Birdsfoot Trefoil, Bird's-foot Trefoil, Birdfoot Deervetch
* It is a deciduous small shrub that grows to 10–40 cm (rarely to 180 cm) tall, forming dense clonal colonies by sprouts from the root system. The leaves are leathery, 4–7 centimetres (1.6–2.8 in) long, with a serrated margin.
Showy crimson blooms in late spring are an excellent source of nectar for bees. Inter-seeds well with grass. Winter annual protects and improves soil! Plant fall or early spring. A good nitrogen fixer (70-150 lbs per acre per year).
Repeat every seven days for full effect. Can be used in organic gardening. Apply as directed. A broad spectrum bio-fungicide to control plant diseases. May apply up to, and including, day of harvest.
Controls overwintering eggs, larvae, and nymphs of common garden pests (mites, scale, leafhoppers, aphids, psyllids, thrips, etc.) and diseases like black spot, powdery mildew, and rust.
Just sprinkle around the plant or area you want to protect. Effective in all seasons. One application lasts for up to two months. This unique blend of ingredients in these granules will repel nuisance pests.
* Cenchrus ciliaris has become naturalised and often an invasive species in Australia, the southwestern United States, Hawaii, Mexico, Central America, South America, and Macaronesia * In the Sonoran Desert it was introduced for erosion control.
* Symphoricarpos occidentalis is a woody species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family , commonly called Western snowberry or Wolfberry (the latter not to be confused with the Lycium species of the same name).
It is native to Asia and it is widely grown as an ornamental plant. In some regions, such as the southeastern United States, it grows in the wild as an introduced and invasive species.
Botanical Name: Lespedeza bicolor
Common Name: Shrub Lespedeza, Shrubby Bushclover, Bicolor Lespedeza, Bush Clover
* Native to temperate forests, stream-banks, swamps and roadsides in northeastern Asia and Japan. * A decidious Tree growing to 22 m (72ft 2in) at a fast rate.
It is a nutritious and palatable forage grass for domestic and wild animals. * A herbaceous, perennial grass, very winter hardy, provides wildlife habitat, erosion control and ground cover.
The shrub's white flowers are small, clustered, and mildly scented. Betula is the genus for birch, and the species name refers to the birch-like leaves. * Native American Californians used the hard wood for arrows, digging, spearing fish, and digging.
Collection Locale: CA
Seeds Per Pound: 12,030
Species: betuloides
Common Name: Mountain Mahogany, California Mountain Mahogany, Western Mountain Mahogany
