Bio-Fume Brand Oriental Mustard
- Improvements to soil structure, fertility and biodiversity.
- Increased organic matter and adds many extra nutrients.
- Provides a good source of nutrition for future crops since it recycles nutrients like nitrogen.
- Increases water infiltration and holding capacity in your soils.
- Increase soil biodiversity by stimulating the growth of beneficial microbes and other soil organisms.
- Increases potential yields from better root systems, improved plant health, which encourages larger yields of future crops.
- Has shown to help control wireworm populations.
Mustard Used as a Bio Fumigant
- Suppresses a range of different nematodes.
- Suppresses a range of soil born diseases, including Pythium spp., Fusarium spp., Sclerotinia spp., Verticillium wilt, and Rhizoctonia spp.
- May help improve skin finish on potatoes.
- Mustards used as Bio Fumigants contain higher glucosinolate (ITC) levels, which are found in the green matter of brassicas.
- Bio Fumigant gas is produced when plant cells become damaged (by crushing or chopping), and the compounds of glucosinolates (ITC) are mixed with enzymes (myrosinase), which are found in the water of the plant.
- Mustard has been known for reducing weed pressure for the crop planted afterwards.
Benefits of Growing Mustard as a Green Manure
CHARACTERISTICS
Nitrogen Fixing
NONE
Quick Growth
HIGH
Compaction Improvement
MEDIUM
Nutrient Scavenger
HIGH
Suppresses Weeds
HIGH
Erosion Control
HIGH
Winter Survival
NONE
Nematode Control
MEDIUM
Planting Season
Spring/Mid-Summer/Late-Summer/Fall (bar goes fully through Spring and Late-Summer)
Planting Depth
1/4 - 1/2 inch
Seeds Per lb
100000
Forage Possibilities
Pasture | Baleage
POORPOOR