Napa Valley Wildflower Co Crimson Clover Cover Crop Seed – 1 oz

Build Healthier Soil Naturally with Crimson Clover

Improve your garden soil between growing seasons with Napa Valley Wildflower Co Premium Crimson Clover Cover Crop Seed (Trifolium incarnatum). This fast-growing, cool-season annual legume is an excellent choice for gardeners and growers looking to add organic matter, protect exposed soil, suppress weeds, and naturally contribute nitrogen to the soil.

Crimson Clover establishes attractive green ground cover during the cool season and produces distinctive crimson-red flowers in spring, providing a valuable food source for bees and other pollinators.

Use it as a winter cover crop, green manure, pollinator planting, or soil-building crop before vegetables, flowers, and other garden plantings.

Each 1 oz package covers approximately 150 sq. ft.

Nitrogen-Fixing Legume Cover Crop

As a legume, Crimson Clover can form a symbiotic relationship with appropriate Rhizobium bacteria that allows atmospheric nitrogen to be fixed into plant-available forms within the plant-soil system.

When properly established and managed, Crimson Clover can contribute significant nitrogen to the following crop after the cover crop is terminated and decomposes.

This makes it a popular cover crop before nitrogen-demanding garden plants and field crops.

Build & Protect Your Soil

Crimson Clover does much more than provide seasonal ground cover. Its vigorous root growth and plant biomass can help improve soil over time.

Benefits include:

• Adds organic matter when incorporated or allowed to decompose
• Helps protect exposed topsoil
• Reduces erosion from rain and runoff
• Captures nutrients that might otherwise be lost
• Supports improved soil structure
• Helps maintain soil coverage between crops
• Contributes nitrogen as a legume cover crop
• Provides biomass for green manure

Natural Weed Suppression

Fast establishment and dense growth help Crimson Clover compete with unwanted vegetation during the cool season.

By covering otherwise bare garden soil, it can help reduce opportunities for winter weeds and unwanted grasses to become established.

For best weed suppression, establish a healthy, dense stand before significant weed competition develops.

Beautiful Crimson Flowers for Pollinators

Allow Crimson Clover to flower and your cover crop transforms into an attractive spring pollinator planting.

Its distinctive elongated crimson-red flower heads attract:

• Honey bees
• Native bees
• Other pollinating insects
• Beneficial insects

This makes Crimson Clover an excellent option for gardeners who want both soil-building benefits and seasonal pollinator habitat.

Excellent Winter Cover Crop & Green Manure

Crimson Clover is well suited for use as a cool-season annual cover crop and can be incorporated into a variety of garden and growing systems.

Use it for:

• Vegetable gardens
• Raised-bed rotations
• Fields
• Orchards
• Garden pathways and unused growing areas
• Winter soil protection
• Green manure
• Pollinator plantings
• Cover crop mixtures

It can also be combined with compatible small grains and other cover crop species for a more diverse planting.

Vermiculite Included

This product includes vermiculite, which helps create a convenient planting mixture while offering useful growing-media properties.

Vermiculite is valued for its ability to:

• Hold moisture
• Improve moisture availability around seeds
• Provide aeration within growing media
• Hold and exchange certain plant nutrients

Product Details

• Brand: Napa Valley Wildflower Co
• Common Name: Crimson Clover
• Botanical Name: Trifolium incarnatum
• Plant Type: Cool-season annual legume
• Primary Uses: Cover crop, green manure, soil building, erosion control & pollinator habitat
• Flower Color: Crimson red
• Net Weight: 1 oz
• Coverage: Approximately 150 sq. ft.
• Vermiculite: Included

Why Grow Crimson Clover?

• Popular nitrogen-fixing legume cover crop
• Adds organic matter to garden soil
• Helps protect against soil erosion
• Dense growth can help suppress weeds
• Helps capture nutrients between growing seasons
• Provides green manure biomass
• Attractive crimson-red spring flowers
• Supports bees and other pollinators
• Excellent cool-season ground cover
• Works well in cover crop mixtures
• Suitable for gardens and larger growing areas
• 1 oz covers approximately 150 sq. ft.

Grow Better Soil Between Crops

Instead of leaving garden soil bare during the off-season, put it to work with Napa Valley Wildflower Co Premium Crimson Clover Cover Crop Seed. Its combination of vigorous cool-season growth, nitrogen fixation, erosion protection, organic matter production, and pollinator-friendly spring flowers makes Crimson Clover a versatile addition to sustainable garden and soil-management programs.

Plant it as a winter cover crop or green manure, then terminate it at the appropriate stage before planting your next crop.