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| If soil conditions are fit for you to plant soon, your best option is probably a mix dominated by warm season species such as cowpea, sunn hemp, soybean, millets or sorghums, sunflower...
Radishes or other brassicas may not be the best fit planted this early (most brassicas will bolt and produce seed if planted now) and do not perform well in wet or low fertility environments.
Other key considerations are whether you want all the species to winterkill and equipment available for planting.
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here is a link to a recent thread about a diverse CC mix that I planted a little over a week ago in preparation for corn in 2023.
https://newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=1065036
This mix is the whole kitchen sink (i.e., more complicated and expensive than necessary for most situations) but may give you some food for thought in terms of species, rates, ratios...etc...
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There are some good OHIO publications on CCs at the following link:
https://mccc.msu.edu/statesprovince/ohio/
CC seed vendors in OH (or adjacent states) will be most familiar with your context:
https://mccc.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/MI_OH_IN_2011_seed_d...
Joel
WIU Agriculture
Edited by jbgruver 6/28/2022 19:17
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