Improving Your Soil Biology

The utilisation of cover crops can help make a dramatic improvement to soil conditions, helping to manage soil structure, water and nutrients. Whether you are looking for maximum biomass above ground or deep rooting to improve conditions below ground, we will help advise on the best crop or mixture to suit.

With all options, the earlier the crop is in the ground, the bigger the potential impact of the cover crop will be, therefore we suggest you plan ahead and are ready to sow as soon after harvest as possible.

Cover crops help to: 

• Improve soil structure
• Capture Nutrients 
• Mitigate Soil Erosion
• Reduce Weed Pressure
• Enhance fertility
• Reduce soil bourne pests
• Improve water retention and drainage 

The inclusion of a range of species in our cover crop mixtures ensure an effective combination of benefits are provided to the soil. This is owing to the beneficial soil enhancing properties of each individual species, from legumes that fix nitrogen, to fast growing species that suppress weeds or those that are deep rooting which draw nutrients from deep within the soil profile. 

Requet a copy of our 2024 Autumn Seed brochure to view our recommendations for cover crop mixtures, designed to suit  wide range of desired outcomes. When choosing a mixture you must first consider the aims that you wish to achieve, the crop rotation and the soil type as these factors will determine the species or mixture selected.