Plots often build a heavy weed burden over time and getting a crop established can be challenging if you haveno spray options. Bright Seeds has developed a compressive range of herbicide friendly mixtures to help you get the best from your wild bird seed and/or game cover crops.
Broad Buster
An annual mixture designed primarily to enable the grower to use post-emergent herbicides to control broad-leaf weeds. The herbicides used can also be used on maize so this mix is often used alongside a crop of game cover maize. The grain sorghum stands well into the winter, and the other components produce a huge quantity of seed for farmland birds.
Early Bird Mix
A feed mixture designed to be drilled early in the spring. Provides good early cover for pheasant poults and partridges. Produces a reliable source of grain throughout the autumn and winter.
Easy Grow
A colourful and impressive looking mixture. This mix can be sprayed with a pre-emergent herbicide to offer broad-spectrum weed control. Sunflowers and millet in particular produce a huge quantity of high-protein seed for game and farmland birds. The inclusion of grain sorghum ensures the mix stands up will into the winter.
Grass Buster
A winter-hardy brassica mix, so it is ideal for flushing points and wind-breaks. In areas where grass weeds are an issue this is a solid choice. Selective herbicides can be used to kill grass weeds. The crop itself offers excellent cover, feed and nectar. The second-year crop can be just as impressive as the first. This mix has a wide planting window which adds to its appeal. it can be planted from May right through until late July.
Grass Buster & Chicory
Chicory is a great addition to the Grass Buster mix. Chicory is a perennial so it greatly improves the second-year cover and grass weeds can be still controlled in the newly established crop.