Cover Crop / Cool season
Spring Oats Cover Crop
Cool-season soil cover that winter-kills in many cold climates.
Grown for cover and residue, not grain harvest.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 60
- Germination temperature
- 40-75F
- Seed depth
- 1 inches
- Spacing
- 2 inches
- Row spacing
- 6 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 21 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 8 weeks before first frost
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate water while establishing.
- Soil
- Average garden soil.
- Watch
- Do not let a cover crop compete with small vegetable seedlings.
- cover-crop
- grass
- winter-kill
- soil-cover
Browse context
- Cover Crop Catalog Category collection
- Grass Family Rotation and family context
- Cool Season Seeds Season collection
- Direct Sow Seeds Start-method collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Quick-Maturity Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
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