Cover Crop / Cool season
Berseem Clover Cover Crop
Short cool-season cover before summer vegetables.
Grown for cover and biomass, not garden harvest.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 60
- Germination temperature
- 45-75F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 2 inches
- Row spacing
- 6 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 28 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 8 weeks before first frost
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow into the final bed when the soil temperature, seed depth, and moisture are ready.
- How much space?
- 2 inches in-row spacing, 6 inches between rows, and 0.25 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use this as part of a diverse flowering or herb planting, and treat companion claims as site-specific rather than guaranteed pest control.
- Common failure modes?
- Mow or incorporate before heavy bloom if reseeding is unwanted. Moderate moisture during establishment. Well-drained soil with good seed-soil contact.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate moisture during establishment.
- Soil
- Well-drained soil with good seed-soil contact.
- Watch
- Mow or incorporate before heavy bloom if reseeding is unwanted.
- cover-crop
- legume
- cool-season
- green-manure
Browse context
- Cover Crop Catalog Category collection
- Legume Family Rotation and family context
- Cool Season Seeds Season collection
- Direct Sow Seeds Start-method collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- High Pollinator Value Seeds Practical trait collection
- Quick-Maturity Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
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