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colorado

I was wondering if you can use Birdseed as a cool season cover crop. Thanks, Steve

8/17/2003 5:43:46 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

birdseed would be a warm weather crop

8/17/2003 5:47:25 PM

Montoursville, PA

I feel that annual rye is one of the best for Northeastern October planting and spring tilling under.

8/17/2003 5:54:15 PM

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Winter Rye.

8/17/2003 6:14:54 PM

New Brunswick

SNOW!!! (That is all that will grow here in the winter! ROTFLMAO

8/17/2003 7:18:14 PM

Montoursville, PA

Winter rye OK but it will grow back from spring tilling sometimes. Annual rye will dye with first frost but the roots will hold space until you till. The leaves will be mostly dead and ready to compost in the tilling time period.

8/17/2003 7:43:40 PM

Western Pa.

Most birdseed that you buy in the store is sterilized, and will not germinate. The reason for this, as I heard it, is because the birdseed can contain marijuana seeds!

8/17/2003 7:50:06 PM

Farmington, Utah

Yea, the bird that flew into my window yesterday had probably been into that marijuana laced bird seed LOL

8/17/2003 8:44:22 PM

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I can't say that the bird seed we get here is sterile. At least some of the seed always manages to make a mess of things here with weeds. Just not that kind of weed. I do believe that the wild hemp seed is sterile though.

8/17/2003 9:45:43 PM

Caceres, mid west of Spain

I use hairy vetch, phaba beans and winter rye.

8/18/2003 2:05:55 AM

Appalachian Mtns.

red clover in this part of the South

8/18/2003 6:19:16 AM