Cover Crop - Crimson Clover (Holistic)

Trifolium incarnatum.

Crimson Clover is an ideal annual garden companion and cover crop for plants and soils deficient in nitrogen. The plant produces a clean and tidy, low-growing 6- to 12-inch-tall cover crop, traditionally intercropped through the garden to increase nitrogen in the soil, while also increasing soil tilth and weed suppression. Clover is one of the most effective weed suppressants, able to be tilled back into the soil as a "green manure" or kept for its crimson red allium-like blooms.