seeding rate help

I need seeding rate help for a small scale garden. The cover crop says 1-3 pounds of seed per 1000 sq ft but I only have two beds ( both 4 ft x 45 ft ) coming to a combined total of 360 sq ft.


I am going to use the rate 3 pounds per 1000 sq ft to figure out how many 1bs of seed I need for 360 sq ft. Any help and or resource tutorials would be seriously appreciated!!

Thank you

If 3 bags per 1k square feet is the max needed.
1,000 divided by 3 =  333square feet per bag.

With the numbers you gave us, one pound of seed will do between 333 to 1k square feet.

So, for a garden your size, one pound would easily cover it.  I would go with that as the birds will try to gobble up the seed anyway, I like to plant on the denser side of things.  

Typically when I plant I like to go on the heavy side. This year I planted my first cover crop and I think that going heavy is going to end up negatively effecting the crop. It seems too thick for everything to perform its best.

What cover crop are you planting?

Mine was a deer mix with 4-5 grains, clovers, turnip, radish etc.

With grass I at least double the recommended but I have hell getting it started so it works out ok although on the expensive side.