GWCT Advanced Partridge Mix
This advanced partridge / winter bird food seed mix is compliant with both AB9 / CAHL2 and AB16 / AHW1 stewardship sheme options.
Perennial species, such as teasel and chicory, ensure the mix can last for many years.
Plants that offer vertical structure and a safe canopy throughout the whole year, create an ideal habitat for nesting and winter cover for grey partridge and several other red-listed farmland birds. Millet and sunflowers offer suitable winter cover for the first winter, while chicory, teasel and sweet fennel guarantee plenty of cover from the second year onwards.
Mixture specification
Sowing and establishment
- Contains seed bearing species such as teasel, stubble turnips, triticale, kale, millet, sunflower and perennial rye; structural plants such as chicory and sweet fennel; and a host of flowering species, both annual (cornflower, corn marigold, corn poppy) and perennial (sainfoin, red campion, yarrow, oxeye daisy, wild carrot, black knapweed, selfheal, lucerne, musk mallow, birdsfoot trefoil, st. john's wort, kidney vetch, vipers bugloss and greater mullein)
- Seed treatment - Nitragrain Gold inoculant [lucerne]
