Hi everyone ! I have four Ladino clover plots located in Northeastern PA at an elevation of around 2000 feet (mountainous). One is well established in its second year (September 2001) and the three others were planted last September (2002). All four of my plots were planted with rye as a cover crop to help nurse the clover. Well now I am having some trouble getting rid of the rye in my two year old plot and have just mowed the other three where the rye was chest high. I am assuming that the rye will come back in these plots also (thought rye was an annual?).

I am also having some fairly heavy weed infestation [:' (] in all four plots maybe due to the excessive amount of rain we have had this year? In all of these plots I followed the same protocol where I killed everything with Ag roundup in August, waited a month, plowed and planted. I am having a great deal of activity in all plots as are filmed by my deer cams. Should I be controlling these weeds and the rye now? Or should I just let them go? My feeling is that I should rid these weeds now so that my clover can flourish.

Does anyone have any help for me. Should I be using a POST product to do this or does anyone have a better recommendation. Also when should this process of weed killing be done. I have a sprayer with booms for the back of my 4-wheeler, I just need to know what and when to use with it. HELP