These diverse mixtures will provide foraging sites for invertebrates such as bumblebees, solitary bees, butterflies and hoverflies throughout the late spring and summer as well as providing valuable habitat for farmland birds
such as Yellowhammers.
Sown into a warm, moist seedbed in late spring or summer the established mixture will produce flowers throughout the late spring and summer months providing a valuable source of pollen and nectar.
The tussocky grasses will also provide a valuable over wintering habitat for invertebrates and small mammals.
SFI/CSS compatibility
| Arable crops |
Temp crops |
Horticultural |
Non horticultural |
Improved |
Low input |
| IPM 2 |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
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| AB8 |
Y |
Y |
Y |
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The seed mixtures have been designed to be compatible with a range of actions within the Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS) and the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI). However, these mixtures are no guarantee of compliance and should therefore be grown and managed in a way that can be reasonably expected to meet the aims of the action.