Organic Red Winter Wheat Cover Crop

Description

Cover cropping is one of the best passive improvements you can make to your gardening practices.  Allowing gardens to sit barren has a series of negative impacts on the soil and environment.Using cover crops can improve soil health, prevent erosion, add organic matter, attract pollinators, promote and feed your soil biology, increase tilth, sequester atmospheric carbon, and suppress weeds! 

All of our cover crops are untreated and non-GMO.

Variety: Organic Limagrain L344 Hard Red Winter Wheat
Benefits: Wheat carries benefits similar to the other cereal grains.  A noted weed suppressor and erosion preventer, winter wheat also scavenges excess nutrients.
Application Rate: 2.5 lbs per 1,000 sq ft
When to plant: Fall/Winter, needs 36˚F+ soil temps for 3 weeks
Hardiness: -15˚F