Mountain View Seed 17635 Horizon Cover Crop Grass Seed Mixture, 3-Pound

Planted on Saturday and had this on Tuesday. Looks great especially with the limited soil prep I did to this bed. I spent a lot of time pulling weeds but little really pulling out rocks, branches,etc. We have been getting a lot of rain which I am sure helped but man am I surprised how well the seeds have done so far. I'll post an update in a week+ to see how well it is doing. Looks great so far. Couldn't be happier.For those who care... The picture shows a lot of sticks, etc in the dirt. I needed to put something down asap to help smother weeds that will likely spout back up in the coming weeks while I work on other things. This will hopefully give me some time before I can get back to this bed and really work on picking the crap out of this soil. This whole bed took a lot of work to just get this far. Previous owner neglected it completely and it had Sumac growing that was already 4+ inches in diameter in 3 different places. The roots even pushed the blocks in the wall out of it.Update: Man has this stuff really grown. I did a bad job spreading it around the edges so I had one shoot of Sumac pop up there but nothing else so far. Everything is growing great where I did get the seed to fall. 100% my fault though because I did a bad job hand spreading and kind of skimped/missed those areas. It looks great though. I need to cut it down a bit at this but I am very happy with how it has turned out. I will try to get updated pictures of the bed.

Popped up great for me! Good product, no issues with getting the seeds started!!

I planted this as a cover crop in my six raised beds in fall 2014. The following spring, I dug what had grown back into the soil 3 weeks before planting.Germination was very poor, and what seeds did germinate came up at different times. The main sticking point was that the crown vetch reseeded itself all over my yard, and has now become a noxious weed that I'm still pulling up a year later.I will go back to seeding with inexpensive winter rye which is cheaper, available locally, and germinates more reliably.

Too soon to write a full review, but first impressions are favorable.Very clean seed. A thoughtful mix of plants to provide a cover crop that will improve the soil and add nitrogen in the spring.After a week or so in the ground could see signs of strong germination following some nice Fall rains. No reason to think that this will be anything less than a home run.

didn't grow

The only germination experienced was of the beans. Amazon should have a 60 day window for processing returns on agri-products. I'm stuck with some expensive beans.

Couldn't be happier and plan to buy more. Grew beautifully near the watered, rich soil of my garden bed and grew well in the dry, rocky soil further out. (Austin, TX: current Nov temps 50°-85°) I kicked the dirt around and stepped the seeds in in the rich soil. But the seedlings seemed to have grown just as well where I tossed them about. It's been less than 2 weeks and the rye and common vetch are about 3 inches tall. The clover looks like it sprouted later. I couldn't tell if the fava beans had started to grow or not. See pics.

The cats love chewing on the rye grass. I don't know yet if the red clover is in delay sprouting but none of that has sprouted yet. But the rye grass is tall, and the fava beans are spreading about. I totally recommend it as a cover crop.