Autumn sowing

When most crops have been harvested in late summer and the first gaps appear in the beds, it is time for autumn sowing. The aim is to harvest herbs and vegetables throughout the year and to keep the soil covered. Asian salads, lamb’s lettuce, garden cress or spinach can be sown into October and harvested after just a few weeks. Many cabbage varieties are hardy or actually need a good frost to develop their flavor. In addition, winter leek varieties and spring onions are suitable for overwintering. For those in a hurry, we recommend sowing rocket, which is ready to harvest in 3 weeks. Autumn sowing of biennial and perennial herbs and flowers means that they grow and bloom particularly vigorously in spring. Sowing green manure is a good way to revitalize stressed and depleted soils over the fall and winter. After the incorporation of the green manure plants in spring, their nutrients are released and are available for the next crops.

Alfalfa - Green manure

Perennial, valuable green manure and fodder plant. Particularly deep rooting. Fixes nitrogen and opens up soil for following crops. Grows even in dry conditions. Great for insects, too.

€3.05
Apéro for Bees - Green manure

Simple, fast-growing wildflower mix. This mix of wildflowers and herbs from Swiss ecotypes (harvested in the wild or propagated in Switzerland) provides an abundant source of nutrition for pollinators and other beneficial organisms. Partially dies off in winter.

€3.05
Astera - Green manure

Neutral blend useful before spring cultivation. Composed of pulses, clovers and grasses, this mix is highly effective in fixing nitrogen in soil and the formation of humus.

€3.05
Beemeadow 'Mellifera' - Green manure

Mix of annual herbs and flowers, recommended by Mellifera e.V. A rich buffet of nectar and pollen for bumblebees, butterflies, honey bees and solitary bees. Ideal for small open spaces and isolated flowerbeds in gardens, with the added benefit of improving soil fertility.

€2.73
Biodiversity mix - Green manure

Species-rich mixture with a high proportion of legumes to promote microbial diversity in the soil. Attracts beneficial insects. Loosens the soil and suppresses diseases.

€15.25
Birdsfoot Trefoil - Green manure

Deep rooting, perennial green manure plant. Fixes nitrogen. Height 5-30 cm. Particularly suited for chalky ground. Tolerant of cold and drought. Beneficial to a wide variety of insects.

€3.05
Black Medick - Green manure

Annual to perennial, early flowering species, also known as hop clover. For limy soil and warmer, rather dry climate. Good as green manure or as underseed for vegetables or grains. Fast-growing but weak in competition from the second use.

€2.73
Bristle Oats - Green manure

Vigorous plant for intertilling, adapted to most soils and drought tolerant. Early fast growth reduces nematodes. Neutral green manure, good for mixed cropping and crop rotation.

€2.73
Buckwheat - Green manure

Annual green manure. Fast initial growth will cover soil quickly. Of medium vigour and with limited self-supporting capability. Ca. 80 cm high.

€3.05
Camelina - Oilseed

Old and versatile crop plant, grown for its oil-bearing seeds, for intertilling or in mixed cropping. Sow in March/April for seed harvest in July.

€2.73
Common Vetch - Green manure

Annual nitrogen fixing green manure for improving the soil structure. Not frost hardy.

€3.05
Crimson Clover - Green manure

Undemanding clover variety for use as cover crop over winter. Height 20-40 cm. From May onwards beautiful crimson flower. Excellent for bees, great green manure. Single cut only.

€3.05
Dominance Mix - Green manure

Fast-growing and densely covering mixture for sowing early. Short growing season under seven weeks. Also germinates in dry soil.

€16.16
Faba - Green manure

This well-balanced mix of different botanical families is particularly useful before pulse crops and contributes to soil fertility. Sow early in the season for an attractive, diverse range of flowers.

€3.05
Florina - Undersowing mixture

Flower-rich undersow mixture of legumes, grasses and field wildflowers. As a partially overwintering undersow FLORINA contributes to humus formation and suppresses weeds. Spread the seed widely into the standing crop and work it in superficially with the hoe.

€3.05
Fodder Radish (nematode reducing) - Green manure

Oil radish with rapid juvenile development and double nematode resistance. Roots penetrate the subsoil vigorously and is particularly suitable for compacted soils. Sow after mechanical loosening.

€3.05
Fodder Radish - Green manure

Annual green manure, fast growth when young. Roots will quickly and thoroughly penetrate subsoil. Particularly recommended for compacted soil conditions. Mechanically loosen soil prior to sowing.

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Grass-Clover Mixture - Green manure

Versatile mixture with forage grasses, white and red clover. Also grows in dry, nitrogen-poor locations.

€2.73
Hairy Vetch - Green manure

Excellent as green manure and as fodder plant for overwintering. Fixes nitrogen, deep rooting. Provides very good soil structure.

€3.05
Insect Buffet - Green manure

Mixture of flowering plants for boundary strips. Does not contain cruciferous plants, but leguminous ones as well as other insect feeding varieties: Buckwheat, phacelia, sunflowers, borage, narrowleaf lupin, trifolium alexandrinum, persian clover, common vetch, serradella, common motherwort, dill, mallow.

€3.05
Landsberg Mixture - Green manure

Winter cover crop mixture, consists of ryegrass, winter vetch, crimson clover. Extremely good preparatory crop, bright crimson clover flowers in spring.

€3.05
Linseed 'Blaues Wunder' - Green manure

Traditional, undemanding cultivated plant. Wonderful blue flowers in the mornings. For seed production sow in March/April. For green manure until August. Main impact as green manure due to rotation of plant families.

€3.05
Millet - Green manure

Suitable as green manure. Fast growth. Decorative seed heads. Can be blended with other plants.

€3.05
Perennial Rye - Green manure

Old, two-year variety of rye, used from year 1 as green fodder and for bread grain from year 2 at the earliest. Perfect as green manure for vegetable cultivation, soil loosening and seedbed preparation. Extremely hardy.

€3.05

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