Green Cover Seed.. Your own mix?

BoneCrusher20 · Mar 7, 2020

I really like what this company is doing and would love to put their blends into my plot system

However.....$100 shipping on $50 worth of product. Anyone ordering from them? Or have a way to get the seed from there for much more reasonable price?

Or........Let's see those recipes if you have something that we can all buy from local co-ops and mix our own diverse blend to match what they are doing best we can.

catscratch · Mar 7, 2020

I order small amounts of specialty seed from them when I want it mailed. For large quantities I go to the local COOP.

COOP = wheat, rye, Ladino, med red, alfalfa, chicory, Austrian winter peas, beans, etc.

Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

DocHolladay · Mar 7, 2020

Used SmartMix to get ratios and “data” on what it will do for the soil. Buying my seeds locally

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

David · Mar 7, 2020

I'm going all in this summer on their milpa mix.

Laker · Mar 7, 2020

David said:
I'm going all in this summer on their milpa mix.

Please keep us posted on the progress of this as the season progresses. I think it'd be worth a thread of its own.

THE LLC · Mar 7, 2020

Mixing your own is a pain in the ass when you plant as much as I do.

cutman · Mar 7, 2020

THE LLC said:
Mixing your own is a pain in the ass when you plant as much as I do.

How much do you plant? I plant 22 acres twice a year and agree that mixing is a pain in the ass, but I ain’t paying someone to mix it for me.

THE LLC · Mar 7, 2020

13 to 15 acres.

HB_Hunter · Mar 8, 2020

I buy from a local seed store. Great prices and decent selection.

DocHolladay · Mar 8, 2020

HB_Hunter said:
I buy from a local seed store. Great prices and decent selection.

Use greencovercrop.com’s SmartMix to help with mixtures. You choose your next crop, 3 things you want to do with the soil, be sure to turn on Auto Adjust for the SmartMix so it will automatically adjust the correct amount of each seed, print out or screenshot the mix and take it to your dealer.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Mennoniteman · Mar 8, 2020

I'm like cutman, I'll usually mix my own concoctions, but if I want to buy something I've have had great results in the past with "Ray's Crazy Summer Mix" from King's Agriseeds. This is deer food and a soil builder in one, and the word crazy is for how this stuff grows, it takes off with a bang right out of the gate, and by midsummer it's an impenetrable jungle that even the deer think twice about going through. And the pearl millet stays six feet tall through the winter. I had to chop the last 3' down in the spring.

Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk

j-bird · Mar 9, 2020

I buy locally as well....but being in farm country I have lots of resources or they can order something for me and I don't have to pay the shipping as long as I wait for their normal deliveries. As long as you don;t mind planting cow food!

Bowman · Mar 11, 2020

Mennoniteman said:
I'm like cutman, I'll usually mix my own concoctions, but if I want to buy something I've have had great results in the past with "Ray's Crazy Summer Mix" from King's Agriseeds. This is deer food and a soil builder in one, and the word crazy is for how this stuff grows, it takes off with a bang right out of the gate, and by midsummer it's an impenetrable jungle that even the deer think twice about going through. And the pearl millet stays six feet tall through the winter. I had to chop the last 3' down in the spring.

Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk

Did you plant anything for the fall or leave this to over winter? How did you follow up?

Mennoniteman · Mar 11, 2020

Bowman said:
Did you plant anything for the fall or leave this to over winter? How did you follow up?

Ray's Crazy Summer Mix gave my deer summer, fall, and winter food and cover, the rape and radishes staying green partly into the winter. I chopped it with the bush hog in the spring and no tilled spring oats into it, getting the plot ready for fall brassicas. I actually thought that it was a little bit over the top as far as a plot species, it was so tall and thick that I called it the jungle, I really should have mowed paths through it so that the deer could utilize it better. The deer spent a lot of time around the edges and I got the impression that it was almost too thick for them, even though it was full of food, they had too much food at my place that they could obtain with less difficulty. This year I plan to plant one drill width around the perimeter of a field to experiment using it as a field edge buffer.

Laker · Mar 11, 2020

Thank you. This is informative and useful.

dogghr · Mar 12, 2020

Get their catalog. A good read in itself of seed choices and mixes. Lots of good ideas for rotational and limited tillage plantings. Shipping rates are ridiculous.
Personally I buy local feed store. They are helpful and know their chit. Support the local guys. They can and do go out of business. I lost one of my 2 favorites this past yr. They’d been n business nearly 100 yrs.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

TX-Aggie · Mar 12, 2020

I have purchased the Upland Bird Mix and Warm Season Soil Builder Mix this year. I have a new plot area I am planting, and thought I'd give them a try. I can't decide if I want to mix them in a smorgasbord super mix, or plant each on half of the plot independently. Will probably decide the day of, but thinking currently on spreading each on 2/3rds of the plot, with overlap on the middle 3rd for the smorgasbord.

Yes, the shipping was not ideal, but currently trying to make various options work. I live in Houston, and my property is in southern Missouri. I have looked around Houston and most of my interstate paths between my home and property to look for seed co-ops. Most of the route is in Pine Plantation country or cattle pasture country. I have found 2 - one is pretty good, but does have some limitations on warm season options; the other is a hour past the property with even more limitations on options for all seasons. There was a 3rd but they sell Sericea Lespedeza as wildlife food plot seed...yeah, fighting that already on the property; not going to do business with someone who advertises that *expletive deleted* weed as food plot seed.

It has been a while since I've dug through the forum, but are there threads for seed suppliers by state/region, and then online options?

Also, I'll post some pictures once I get the seed planted, and gets going.

TreeDaddy · Mar 12, 2020

TX-Aggie said:
I have purchased the Upland Bird Mix and Warm Season Soil Builder Mix this year. I have a new plot area I am planting, and thought I'd give them a try. I can't decide if I want to mix them in a smorgasbord super mix, or plant each on half of the plot independently. Will probably decide the day of, but thinking currently on spreading each on 2/3rds of the plot, with overlap on the middle 3rd for the smorgasbord.

Yes, the shipping was not ideal, but currently trying to make various options work. I live in Houston, and my property is in southern Missouri. I have looked around Houston and most of my interstate paths between my home and property to look for seed co-ops. Most of the route is in Pine Plantation country or cattle pasture country. I have found 2 - one is pretty good, but does have some limitations on warm season options; the other is a hour past the property with even more limitations on options for all seasons. There was a 3rd but they sell Sericea Lespedeza as wildlife food plot seed...yeah, fighting that already on the property; not going to do business with someone who advertises that *expletive deleted* weed as food plot seed.

It has been a while since I've dug through the forum, but are there threads for seed suppliers by state/region, and then online options?

Also, I'll post some pictures once I get the seed planted, and gets going.

Did you look at east texas seed in tyler,texas?

bill

TX-Aggie · Mar 12, 2020

TreeDaddy said:
Did you look at east texas seed in tyler,texas?

bill

Thanks for suggestion - I'll check them out. I've checked a few in Longview, and up US-59/I-30, and never really found a good place. My father lives in Longview and will be retired soon, so he'll be needing something to do.

Creek chub · Mar 12, 2020

Mennoniteman said:
View attachment 18385
Ray's Crazy Summer Mix gave my deer summer, fall, and winter food and cover, the rape and radishes staying green partly into the winter. I chopped it with the bush hog in the spring and no tilled spring oats into it, getting the plot ready for fall brassicas. I actually thought that it was a little bit over the top as far as a plot species, it was so tall and thick that I called it the jungle, I really should have mowed paths through it so that the deer could utilize it better. The deer spent a lot of time around the edges and I got the impression that it was almost too thick for them, even though it was full of food, they had too much food at my place that they could obtain with less difficulty. This year I plan to plant one drill width around the perimeter of a field to experiment using it as a field edge buffer.

I see millet in your pic. I planted a 1/3 acre plot of virgin ground that was previously timber land with pearl millet. Bad soil conditions but that stuff came up and very thick. It’s thickness and drought conditions led to an unsuccessful throw and mow in the fall. I don’t think it was a total failure though because I suspect the millet helped the soil conditions and hopefully my frost seeded red clover takes off soon

Green Cover Seed.. Your own mix?

Active Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Active Member

Active Member

Well-Known Member

Administrator

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Active Member

Well-Known Member

Active Member

Well-Known Member

Active Member

Well-Known Member

Active Member

Active Member

Similar threads