Cover Crop / Cool season
Yellow Mustard Cover Crop
Fast brassica cover crop for open spring or fall beds.
Grown for soil cover and biomass, not leaf harvest in this context.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 45
- Germination temperature
- 45-85F
- 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
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate moisture helps quick canopy closure.
- Soil
- Average, well-drained garden soil.
- Watch
- Rotate away from brassica vegetables to reduce same-family disease pressure.
- cover-crop
- brassica
- quick-crop
- green-manure
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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