RE: rye cover crop like corn?
it is indeed grain rye and they have picked all my plots clean and i continue to kick deer up walking into the plots. i have sat on some of the plots and i have seen no birds or other critters eating it. i keep kicking deer off just the planted areas. its been so dry that none of the seed took at all. in the past the rye would pop in about 5 days so i guess the deer didnt have a chance to eat it as seed. i just thought it was strange because i have never seen it before. the thing im thinking is that it seems to attract them and its way harder for the deer to pick at the seed. if i started just scattering rye seed in the thick brush would it hold deer longer than the 2 or 3 days it takes for them to finish off a 50lb bag of corn?