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King City, Mo | C:N
If your rye has excessive N it will decomp faster then if the rye is N deficient when you kill it.
How active is your soil life? Are you using ams and feeding the soil or are you feeding the plant? Are you using fungicides?
All this will factor into how long the rye residue will last plus some other factors that I didn't list.
I started my beans planted into the 4' cereal rye yesterday on a poorer hillside. I saw a black looking thing and figured I lost a belt but everything was working....then it started to move! I sware that black snake was as wide as the bean head and as big of a round As a hedge post. I thought it was gonna get me! I shoulda took a pic but was too scared.
I need to get rye and wheat seeded ASAP after combining as the ground needs to be covered. Need to spread some fertilizer too.
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Rye decomposition question
