Millets & Canary Grasses 17

AMBUSH MILLET MIX WHITE MILLET RED MILLET JAPANESE Ambush Millet Mix is a combination of White Millet and White Millet is best suited to more southerly regions of Red Millet is earlier maturing than white and does not REED MILLET Japanese Reed Millet. The Reed Millet being a stronger the UK as it is a sunshine loving plant and is not frost stand well when sown alone. However it is a good partner Japanese Reed Millet is a stronger plant than other plant and more winter hardy provides cover while the hardy. It provides warmth, shelter and feed to game birds to use with White Millet as it extends the feeding period members of the millet family and is more winter hardy. White Millet produces plentiful seed to hold the birds in and will attract wild seed-eating birds such as finches. (see Millgame Millet Mix). As with other millets, it is When mixed with White Millet it provides an excellent the cover. It is an ideal mixture for use as a wind-proof Millet is particularly attractive to grey and red-legged susceptible to frost. cover and feed crop (see Ambush Millet Mix) belt on the outside of a block of maize or as a flushing partridges and if sown alone can be used for early holding point at the end of maize. cover. When required to last longer into the season it Pack size 1acre (5kg) untreated Pack size 1acre (5kg) untreated performs well if sown with Maize but will combine well 3.00 kg White Millet with a variety of other game cover crops. 2.00 kg Japanese Reed Millet 5.00 kg/acre Pack size 1 acre (5kg) untreated

Pack size 1 acre (5kg) untreated CANARY GRASS REED CANARY GRASS (Phalaris aquatica) (Phalaris arundinacea) Canary Grass provides excellent medium to long term Reed Canary Grass is similar to Phalaris aquatica but is MILLGAME nesting cover for pheasant and partridge and can be used more suitable for use in exposed northern regions as it MILLET MIX to both hold and drive birds. It is useful in areas where is a much hardier plant and will tolerate a wide range of Millgame Millet Mix uses both Red and White Millet and is annual planting is not an option, either because it is soil types. It not only offers nesting and cover to pheasants useful as the Red matures earlier than the White, therefore uneconomic or too difficult and is a good choice to use but also provides wild birds with nesting sites. The crop is extending the feeding period. This mixture can produce huge between tree rows in newly established woods. Care must purely for cover and does not provide feed so bare patches amounts of high protein feed per acre and when combined be taken to drill in wide enough rows to prevent the Canary may be left unplanted or later cut out to provide areas with maize creates an excellent cover and feed crop. Grass becoming too dense and therefore impassable to for artificial feeding. As with Phalaris aquatica drilling the birds. Annual management should be undertaken to in wide rows is necessary rather than broadcasting or 2.50 kg Red Millet keep the rows clear and topping is beneficial if the grass the crop will become too dense and annual management 2.50 kg White Millet becomes too tall, with the debris being removed. should be undertaken to keep the rows clear. Topping is 5.00 kg/acre beneficial if it becomes too tall, with the debris removed. White Millet Pack size 1 acre (2.5kg) untreated Pack size 1 acre (5kg) untreated Pack size 1 acre (2.5kg) untreated (limited availability)