After some much needed rain, the soil isn't as rock hard and it gave the producers a gap to plant the cover crops. In a couple of weeks I'll show you how these grains grow and look, but for now I just want to show you how the seeds look. If you look at the picture, you will see the grain seeds, and the white pellets are a chemical form of nitrogen to assist the cover crop in rapid growth to have as much fiber as possible in the end.
There are several methods to sow the cover crop. You can do it by hand, by means of a planter (like in the pictures below) or by means of a fertilizer spreader. On terrains with a big percentage of larger rocks, it is sometimes impossible to use a planter or spreader and sowing by hand is the only way. Your covering will not be as good as with the other two due to no seedbed preparation, but it is still worth it to get some organic material onto the soil.
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