Dan Bown of RA Bown at Northfield Farm in Worcestershire contacted us over the Easter weekend to let us know about his crop of westerwolds ryegrass. The crop was sown in the 3rd week of October, via min till cultivation, after spring barley. It has had no spring fertiliser and despite less than ...

Sowing and Growing Wildflowers Generally wild flowers are sown from March to May in the spring and late August to October in the autumn.  Sowing rate The sowing rate is 2-2.5 grams per square metre or 8-10 kg per acre depending on the mixture. Putting on more than this will mean the ...

RESEARCH PROJECTS & TRIALS SARIC & NIAB Restoring Soil Quality Through the Reintegration of Leys and Sheep into Arable Rotation Aim: Many farms are reintroducing mixed farming into arable rotations, hoping to improve soil quality and control herbicide resistant weeds like black grass. ...

We're receiving phone calls from customers who are ready to sow their Cotswold Seeds but don't know whether it’s too early. With a late frosts still a possibility, you need to wait to sow diverse mixtures featuring clover & herbs, which are not frost tolerant during establishment. The ...

Pre-season, Sam popped in to see a couple of local farmers... A deer breeder near Aylesbury needed some advice with overseeding to improve productivity and legume content in the sward, so we’ve now created a bespoke mixture of grasses and clovers to be oversown this spring. Sam also visited ...