Cereal Rye or Grass Growing in my Clover?

[Victor Van Meter]

Just checking to see if this is Rye popping up from last year or grass? It is getting pretty thick and definitely outpacing my clover. If it is grass, I will spray when the the weather warms up consistently. Thanks.

 

[jsasker007]

Rye is purple stems when it's small. I can't really tell one way or the other from the pics but rye also grows straight up. If I had to make a call from the pictures I'd say you have grass there but taking a closer look would be better to know for sure.

 

[Bill]

Look like it could be rye. Did you broadcast any in there last fall?

 

[bigboreblr]

Might be the light, but the far right picture has that blue tint of oats.

A light dose of gly coupled with some clethodim should knock out alot of the clover competition.

I spray some years, but I do not fight hard for a clover mono crop. Any recent soil test, nitrogen levels, organic matter levels. Tall bed of grass in the summer helps with both.

 

[somich]

If I have stuff growing with seed heads above our plantings, I mow it off above the crop.

I rather not spray any more than absolutely needed.

 

[Victor Van Meter]

Look like it could be rye. Did you broadcast any in there last fall?

Yeah, I put rye down in the fall.

There doesn't seem to be much of any browsing on it.