Cover Crop / Cool season
Oilseed Radish Cover Crop
Short-window cover crop for soil loosening and fall bed cover.
Grown for root biomass, not table radishes.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 60
- Germination temperature
- 45-85F
- Seed depth
- 0.5 inches
- Spacing
- 3 inches
- Row spacing
- 8 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 21 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 7 weeks before first frost
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate water while establishing.
- Soil
- Loose to average soil; taproots help open compacted beds.
- Watch
- Because it is a mustard-family crop, account for it in brassica rotations.
- cover-crop
- brassica
- bio-drill
- cool-season
Browse context
- Cover Crop Catalog Category collection
- Mustard 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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