Undersowing winter oilseed rape with frost-sensitive legume living mulches to improve weed control

Intercropping lentil with grass pea-fenugreek/lentil with faba bean/common vetch with faba bean and berseem clover

A field trial was carried out over two years, comparing seven legume species—fenugreek, spring faba bean, grass pea, lentil, field pea, berseem clover and spring common vetch—and three legume mixtures, as living mulches, in crops with two levels of soil mineral nitrogen content before sowing.