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| Radishes planted after Labor Day in Northern IL are unlikely to get larger than the radish in the pic at the following link: http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/get-attachment.asp?action=view&att...
Probably 5 out of 10 years they won't even get this big... especially if good soil seed contact is not achieved.
Do you have access to a drill? How about a vertical tillage tool?
If you don't already have experience with cover crops, I recommend that you start with a low risk cover cropping strategy such as drilling cereal rye into corn stalks ahead of beans.... or spinning/blowing on rye (perhaps mixed with DAP) and then lightly incorporating with a vertical tillage tool.
If you really want to add a brassica to the rye, start with something cheap and relatively winter hardy like rapeseed.
After you have a few years of success with CC, if you still want to try planting CC while harvesting... go for it!
Joel
WIU Agriculture
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Radish and rye
