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De Forest, WI | As long as the beans bounce back I think you are going to have a very nice crop. If it turns to a dry year everyone will be wanting that cover to hold moisture. We do vegetable and take some of the rye off when it heads out, but before viable grain set. Always iffy in the spring. We use it to mulch several acres of peppers and tomatoes. When it is broken or cut below the first leaf after it heads it will die in place. It has shifted from vegetative to reproductive push.
On our cut rye ground we mouldboard plow it and plant winter squash. It works VERY well. The rye hold all the broadleaves back and has the field almost clean when the rye is baled. In the fall after the squash (or pumpkins) come off it goes right back into rye or rye/vetch depending on what is going in that field the next year. If corn, then vetch is added for the N, if beans, no vetch. | |
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Well....that did not work out as planned. Grade my performance. Lots-o-pics
