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Message: [QUOTE="Meadowlark, post: 270621, member: 7117"] Several different varieties depending on season and need: 1) [B]Cow peas aka field peas[/B]: spring, summer, fall: . Plant them once, grow shred, and they regrow from seed. I sometimes get 4 generations for the price of a handful of seeds. Excellent weed control, excellent soil builder as long as you do not harvest too much. 2) [B]Sunn Hemp[/B]: Summer: Sunn Hemp. Rapid growing, tremendous nitrogen fixing (arguably the highest), incredible weed control, out of this World generator of organic matter, outstanding soil builder. 3) [B]Alfalfa[/B]: Fall,Winter, early Spring. Thick green manure crop, weed control, mow multiple times, nitrogen fixing, arguably a magic plant for garden soil conditioning. 4) [B]Turnips, Daikon[/B] radish: Fall, winter. Excellent root systems make this a great cover crop to draw nutrients to the surface for garden veggies to use. 5) [B]Elbon Rye[/B]: Fall, winter. The absolute "go to" for root knot nematode control. Also, very effective at weed control and green manure production. 6) [B]Vetch[/B]: Winter, spring. Excellent soil building [B]7) White and Red clovers: [/B]Fall and winter. Excellent source of nitrogen. 8) [B]Austrian peas:[/B] Winter. Very cold hardy legume. 9) [B]Sunflowers: [/B]Summer. Weed control , stink bug trapper extraordinaire. 10) Various other small grains and others used in deer plots. [/QUOTE]