Cover Crop / Warm season
Sorghum-Sudangrass Cover Crop
Warm fallow beds where high biomass can be cut before planting.
Grown for quick summer biomass and soil cover.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 70
- Germination temperature
- 65-90F
- Seed depth
- 0.5 inches
- Spacing
- 2 inches
- Row spacing
- 8 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 14 days after last 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, 8 inches between rows, and 0.5 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use crop-family rotation first, then pair with compatible timing, spacing, and canopy size rather than relying on a simple companion chart.
- Common failure modes?
- Mow before plants become woody or set seed. Moderate water to establish dense summer biomass. Warm, well-drained soil with adequate nitrogen for growth.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate water to establish dense summer biomass.
- Soil
- Warm, well-drained soil with adequate nitrogen for growth.
- Watch
- Mow before plants become woody or set seed.
- cover-crop
- grass
- warm-season
- biomass
Browse context
- Cover Crop Catalog Category collection
- Grass Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Direct Sow Seeds Start-method collection
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