Soil Builder Peas and Oats Cover Crop Seeds

I have very sandy soil and wanted to start growing some cover crops to use as mulch and compost to start building up some organic matter. I only used about half the packet, in two separate "test beds" and they've grown well in both. I think this was another case where birds ate some seeds (especially the oats... even though they were covered with a bit of soil). I did one test bed in some soil I had let sit with chop-and-drop compost from tomatoes and peppers and the other test bed was a section I hoed in the lawn/weeds and then just through some seed down and haphazardly covered them. Both have been growing well, I just wish my backyard got more sun so they would be bigger.

We garden a large area and sometimes the beds grow intensive plants that pretty much exhaust the soil. We used this to revive that particular bed and the seeds germinated nicely. The jury is still out on growth next time we plant, but the cover crop is thriving. That’s a good sign.