Growing Mighty Mustard® Kodiak Cover Crop Garden Seeds

About Mighty Mustard® Kodiak Cover Crop Garden Seeds

Non-GMO Mighty Mustard® Kodiak is a diverse short-season cover crop and can be seeded nearly any time of year for a quick garden mulch and manure. Open-pollinated Kodiak mustard seeds are intended for full-sun outdoor sowing, broadcast, and lightly rake and tamp into nearly any type of garden soil that needs loosening or repair in full sun. Mustard seeds germinate in 5-12 days and mature into a 24-30" tall cover crop with a golden yellow, weedy, wildflower spread. If mulching back into the soil, an annual mustard cover crop is best if mowed down 6-8 weeks before planting the new crop to allow glucosinolates time to fortify the soil. Non-GMO Brassica juncea is a hardy short-season cover crop with no serious pests or diseases, grown for its tolerance to extremes. It is often planted for its glucosinolate content, which serves as an all-natural garden pest and insect repellent.

The mighty mustards are a special group of mustards specifically developed to have higher concentrations of glucosinolates to function as a soil fumigant. That is what gives them the ability to target nematodes and suppress diseases. Regular mustards, like the Farmer’s Favorite Mix, are more traditional mustard strains. They are edible as mustard greens - a Southern favorite. Mighty mustards are not for human consumption. The high concentration of glucosinolate can cause digestive distress in some people.

The Mighty Mustard® line of mustard cover crop seeds was developed by a dedicated plant breeder and University of Idaho professor of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Dr. Jack Brown. Like much of Dr. Brown's research, Mighty Mustard® was specifically cultivated to better support local environments with a more robust, abundant cover crop that noticeably helps prevent broadleaf weeds. Dr. Jack Brown is best known for his work reducing dependence on crude oil, arguing that alternative fuels and biofuels can be produced from oilseed crops such as rapeseed and mustard seed.

Mighty Mustard® Kodiak Benefits

Non-GMO Mighty Mustard® Kodiak was specifically bred and cultivated to increase its ability as a cover crop. Not only can Kodiak mustard seeds be sown in the spring as a beneficial summertime companion plant, but they are most popularly grown only to be mulched back into the soil as a rich source of season-long nitrogen. Kodiak mustard cover crop seeds are a safer, more reliable source of nitrogen than store-bought supplements and additives because they don't risk burning roots with direct nitrogen contact. And like Daikon radish, Mighty Mustard® Kodiak seeds develop a deep taproot to break up hardened soils in overgrown and uncultivated grow spaces.

Wholesale Mighty Mustard® Kodiak Cover Crop Seeds Per Package:

• 4 oz - Wholesale Seeds - Approximately 45,000 Seeds
• 1 lb - Wholesale Seeds - Approximately 180,000 Seeds
• 5 lb - Bulk Seeds - Approximately 900,000 Seeds
• 25 lb - Bulk Seeds - Approximately 4,500,000 Seeds

Non-GMO Mighty Mustard® Kodiak cover crop seeds are available for Fast Free Shipping on qualifying orders.