Blend #2 

Grasses:  sorghum sudan, pearl millet, German millet   Legumes:    lentils, common vetch      Brassicas:  Ethiopian cabbage, oil seed radish,  dwarf essex rape, graza fodder radish,  T-Raptor (rape x turnip),  hunter (rape x turnip),  barkant turnip, barabas turnip, rival turnip,  rangiora forage rape, winfred forage (rape x kale)

Grower notes:  We really like the way the blends responded and looked.  The diversity above and below ground is really impressive and important.   Where there was good nitrogen available, the brassicas did very well and choked out the lentils and vetch, but where nitrogen was short, the lentils and vetch thrived as the brassicas did not do as well.

 

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Week 12 - notice that grasses have died after frost (24 degrees) but the lentils and brassicas still look good.