Overwintering Mix for Fall Planting: Cover Crop Tour
Walk through a fall-planted Overwintering Mix and see how it protects soil through winter while building nitrogen and breaking compaction. Learn which species work best, why planting date matters, and how this diverse mix suppresses weeds and sets you up for spring.
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0:00 Okay, so we are standing in an October 10th planted strip of our overwintering mix. So this has been a pre-made mix Green Green Cover has had on our website.
0:14 For many years now. It's a really diverse offering. So we've got Balanca clover, Harry Vet, winter peas, those are the legumes in here. We have cereal rye, there's some rape seed.
0:26 There's winter barley and black oats. So a lot of diversity. This is a really popular mix that we sell. You know, guys use it on broad acres across, you know, pivots or larger scale.
0:39 Agriculture, but also our smaller customers, you know, in the backyard, in the garden, you know, homestead and garden type customers use this mix too. So the goals of this mix would
0:49 Simply be general soil building, diversity, weed suppression, nitrogen fixing with the legumes, compaction breaking, all of the just kind of general goals. This is a great option.
0:59 For many of our customers.
1:01 Yeah, it's really good at weed suppression. I mean, there's I've looked through here quite a bit. There's no weeds growing out here for sure. So, if
1:08 You just want to put your gardens to bed, put your fields to bed, this is going to be a really good option. Now, some of the species aren't showing up as well here as they might if
1:29 Nebraska in the middle of October, there's probably a few of these things that I wouldn't necessarily put in here. But if I got this in say mid-September, it would be a lot better for that.
1:41 Particularly like the balanca clover needs to establish in order to over winter well. So we don't see a lot of that out here right now, but I think that's a lot because of planting date.
1:50 And where we're at further north. So again, this is a multi-purpose, general purpose type mix. It's going to work across a wide range of dates and geography. And so if you think this
2:02 Is going to work for you, it's a great option. It's going to be cheaper than building a custom mix for small acreages. But again, if you're in a situation where this may not be quite the fit for you and you've got larger fields, we're happy to put together custom mixes for you.