Sowing Rate: 10- 25 grams per square metre
Sow: March- May & September- early November
Hardiness: Prevent pigeon damage. Winter Hardy

Mixture:
  50% certified Hungarian Grazing Rye secale cereale
  50% certified Common Vetch vicia sat

Additional Information:
Vetch (or Tares) and Grazing (or Winter) Rye. This mixture produces the most biomass of any Green Manure crop. Vetch is a nitrogen producing legume and helps build soil fertility. Rye plants quickly develop a large fibrous root system which can draw up to 90% of excess soil nitrogen during establishment preventing the leaching of valuable nutrients from otherwise bare ground during heavy rainfall. Evenly sow the seeds before raking them down to a depth of approx 1 inch. Firm the ground afterwards to insure good seed to soil contact. Protect the seedbed and emerging seedlings from pigeon damage. Chop up or strim the crop before or just as the vetch plants begin to flower and immediately cultivate into the soil surface. Spring sowings mature in late summer and autumn sowings in the following spring.
For further information on Vetch & Rye see our Grass Matters forum