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South Central MN | Winter rye (what most call cereal rye anyways) won't produce stems or heads unless it vernalizes first, and that takes freezing temps to some level. I don't know how long or how low but if you can work the dirt to get seeds in doubt it would. All you get is leaf growth so it looks like ordinary grass.
If you frost seed it and it germinates, then gets a good cold snap for a while it *could* vernalize but I wouldn't be relying on it.
A few years ago we spread some in an attempt to interseed into corn in June, the stuff that fell where it wasn't shaded out or just off the edge of the corn grew, but only got 8-12 inches tall at most, looked more like a clump of orchard grass that had been cut. Some of it overwintered, and only then did it grow tall and produce stems. A little patch of it was in a spot where we needed to do some dirt work so wasn't disturbed in the spring, that stuff lived long enough to have a birthday. | |
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Cereal Rye planted in the spring
