Winter Pollinator Seed Mix
Coverage: 1000m² (1 kg) – Contains a diverse blend of legumes, grains, and deep-rooted perennials for soil health and pollinator support.
Our Winter Pollinator Seed Mix is designed to nourish both your soil and local beneficial insects during the cooler months. This versatile mix adds organic matter, fixes nitrogen, improves soil structure, and supports early-season pollinators when left to flower. Perfect for orchards, vegetable gardens, vineyard cover cropping, or open paddocks in temperate and subtropical zones.
What’s Inside?
A carefully selected combination of cool-season plants with soil-boosting and pollinator-friendly benefits:
- Legumes: Vetch, Field Peas, Crimson Clover, Arrowleaf Clover, White Clover, Lucerne
- Grains: Oats, Ryecorn
- Herbs & Forage: Chicory (deep-rooted, pollinator-attracting)
Key Benefits:
- Fixes nitrogen into the soil with legume species like clover, lucerne, vetch, and field peas
- Breaks up compacted soils and improves drainage through deep taproots like chicory and lucerne
- Protects soil from erosion while adding rich organic matter over winter
- Supports bees and beneficial insects with flowering species such as chicory and clovers
- Suppresses weeds and improves soil microbial life and fertility
Plant Details:
- Plant Type: Annual and short-term perennial winter cover crop and insectary mix
Sowing Information:
- Sow When: Temperate: February – June or August – October; Subtropical: March – June
- Germination: 7–14 days depending on temperature and soil moisture
- Depth: Sow 1–2 cm deep
- Position: Full sun to part shade
- Sow Where: Broadcast into fields, beds, or orchard rows; rake in and water well
- Soil Type: Suits most soils; thrives in well-drained conditions with pH 6.0–7.5
- Spacing: Broadcast evenly or sow in bands 15–30 cm apart
Maintenance:
- Keep moist during establishment, especially in dry periods
- Cut or mow before peak flowering (6–10 weeks after sowing) to maximise biomass and nutrient return
Soil Incorporation:
Turn under or mulch in place 2–3 weeks before spring planting. In no-dig systems, chop and leave on the surface to act as a nutrient-rich mulch layer.
