It’s at that stage when the stand of rye will be mowed down and tilled into the soil. Make a note in your garden journal to plant a rye cover crop next fall.

Planting edible beans into winter rye has environmental and potential yield benefits, a North Dakota State University Extension study said. The rye reduces soil erosion, suppresses weeds and soaks ...

As the cool weather of autumn approaches, now is the time to start planning for cover crops in the garden. Depending on what’s growing in your garden, you may have ...

Examples of cover crops include winter rye, buckwheat, legumes, clover, as well as pea and oat mixes. However, plant cover crops well before autumn.

Next, prepare or protect the soil. One option to condition and enrich the soil for next year is to plant a cover crop. Cover, winter wheat, or winter rye grow quickly and add nutrients to the soil.

You have to choose a winter cereal.” In some of his charts, he showed how farmers in some part of the country plant rye because it competes with difficult weeds — even the dreaded Palmer amaranth.

Winter sowing lets you extend your growing season and helps some types of seeds sprout better.

Winter Cover Crops: Timing Cover Crop Planting in Corn-Soybean Short-Season Rotations Learn what factors determine if, when and which cover crops are beneficial in your short-season climate.

The deep roots of winter rye break up hard soil and the winter rye itself – growing to a height of five feet – adds considerable organic matter to the soil when cut down and dug into the earth.

Two farmers who have already started getting winter ready are Mark Button and son-in-law Sam Trudgian of CP Button Ltd at Polshea Farm in Bodmin, Cornwall, where maize has been grown for 40 years.