Daikon

That's up to you.

How about this one? This one is one that people skip over all the time and don't realize its value, daikon radish.

Daikon radish is a multi-use crop.

It has so much going for it.

I don't like radishes.

I'm still not putting them in here.

But a daikon radish is much milder.

Daikon has a ton of use making like a slaw to go on like a taco or something like that or Asian cuisine traditionally used.

I want to emphasize, though, that throwing some daikon seeds on some dense clay soil is not going to do a whole lot for you, at least not in year one.

If the daikon radish crop is not mildly happy, it's not going to be able to thrive or maybe even survive, let alone decompact.

Daikon, like most crops, still loves well-draining soil and still needs good soil preparation to do its thing.

So soil preparation is key, but the fine root hairs on the daikon can be exceedingly effective at decompacting soils in the right conditions, of course.

mixes are going to almost always produce more biomass than not and should generally include a grain a legume or two a brassica or two and if you can something in the beet slash spinach family if you don't plan to grow those in that space next year obviously those can assist with decompaction as well and are cold tolerant to some extent and provide some nice biomass definitely pair those with dicons where possible of course Please watch and or listen to everything we've ever done on cover crops first, because not all cover crops make sense for all situations.