Soil Booster Gold
Soil Booster Gold is a catch crop mixture offering a wide variety of benefits due to the diverse nature of the species contained within the mixture.
Soil Booster Gold will establish quickly to create a large amount of biomass while fixing nitrogen from the atmosphere due to its high legume content.
It will aid in water infiltration helping drainage along with suppressing weeds due to the potential to produce a large amount of biomass in a short window.
Key Benefits
- Nitrogen fixing
- Organic matter
- Supress weeds
- Reduce nitrogen leaching
- Biomass production
- Soil conditioning
- Improved drainage
Mixture breakdown: Gold
| Catch crops | Weight (kg) |
| Berseem clover | 2 kg |
| Crimson clover | 2 kg |
| Linseed | 2 kg |
| Mustard | 2 kg |
| Tillage radish | 2.5 kg |
| Phacelia | 2.5 kg |
| Sunflower | 3 kg |
| Vetch | 6 kg |
| Total | 22 kg |
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Sowing rate: 2 ha pack – 22 kg
Sowing time: Sow from mid-July up until 15 September if sowing for ACRES
Sowing depth: 10-15 mm
Sowing instructions: Cultivate to achieve a fine, firm seedbed. Ploughing is not permitted if sowing in the ACRES scheme. Sow in good conditions (warm with rain forecast). Roll after sowing to ensure good soil/seed contact.
After sowing: Crop must remain in place until after 1 January if sown within ACRES. Leaving the crop in place over winter will help improve soil structure and reduce soil erosion.