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View attachment 5602 I planted WR last year and the deer hammered it then and in the spring. I tried frost seeding clover into the plot this spring. I attached pics of what it looks like now. The clover looks alittle sparse in my thinking. There are also some small grass and small weeds in the plot. Not sure if I should weed wack and mow the rye down after it seeds out and then nuke the plot to start over or should I let it go dormant, seed in more rye and clover in August in hopes of the clover taking off.
I would wait until the rye seed is ready to drop on it's own, .
Rye is turning yellow already in central wi. It will stand up a couple months, I don't think your edge idea is horrible batman, but I wouldn't count on the rye being real pretty, but it will give you some edge effect.
If I spread some brassica in mid august and let the rye seed fall will I have rye growing in September?
I think it depends on the situation. Many times you can lose a lot of seed to birds if it is easily accessible and getting it down to thatch level by rolling or mowing will help with that. We had decent regen with it standing, but I'm sure it would have been better with the seed at ground level. We left it stand for cover. I have noticed that the regen takes place over a longer period when standing, as it does not all drop and sprout at the same time, it make take some time before it all reaches the ground and germinates.I've not had much rye re-gen by just letting the old rye stand. If you cultipack, roll, mow, or lightly disk...then you get re-gen
3-4' was about normal for rye on Dad's old place too. I've got it over my head here and most of it is right around 6'. Even on some in-woods plots I've got 5'+ rye
I think if you let the rye go to seed and then weed wack it for free seed and throw in some more clover at that time it should go pretty far with establishing clover and next spring it should take off nicely. I planted this plot August 9th last year with a mix of rye, clovers, and brassica. Rye and brassica took off nicely in the fall and back on June 14th I went to check it out and decided to mow it. There was 6"-18" clover in a lot of the plot, sorry no close ups. Looking forward to see what it looks like around 4th of July.
I hope you have a stand straight ahead int he above picture. I could easily see a buck wandering out of the tamarack swamp in Nov.
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My clover stands came through OK. Not sure why being you have better soil than me.I'm thinking about doing this with a couple rye plots, but instead of mowing them I think I'll cultipack and spray (zero to very little clover made it through last winter)....then hope for some good rains.
I hope you have a stand straight ahead int he above picture. I could easily see a buck wandering out of the tamarack swamp in Nov.
Discing is best, the deeper you get the less rye you will have. Dragging it real good with a good drag is second. With rolling, u need a lot of moisture. Rye will germinate suspended in the air if it gets moisture.If I spread some brassica in mid august and let the rye seed fall will I have rye growing in September?