Cover Crops and Green Manures - Cooperative Extension: Garden and Yard - University of Maine Cooperative Extension

NOTE: Cover crops reduce erosion, sequester nutrients and compete against weeds. When worked into the soil, they are called green manures. Seeding Rates and Reasons for Use Crop — Major Reasons for Use Lbs per 1000 sq. ft. Lbs per acre Buckwheat — Good scavenger of soil phosphorus; controls weeds; mow before seeds develop. 1.0