QTompkins2005

Is there anything that you can plant after crops are taken out that would live through the winter? I'm looking for something to hunt over in late seasons

psandhu

winter wheat

winter rye.

QTompkins2005

If I plant that will I be able to plant crops over it the following spring?

psandhu

no, you'd have to disk up the wheat or rye first. it will look like 6" high grass.

rye is also allelopathic, even when it's decomposing.

answerguy

I thought I'd share the definition of allelopathic since I didn't know what it meant.

Allelopathic:
The inhibition of growth in one species of plants by chemicals produced by another species.

Or in other words rye will suppress weeds from growing in your food plots as well as suppress
crops that you want to have grow in your plots.

RonM

You sure can plant a crop in the spring after rye, it is often used as a cover crop as opposed to always being a small grain crop. You could either plow it down as a green crop , or kill it with roundup and no-till a crop in.....

StrmChzr

or you can plant a rye/clover mix in the fall and mow the rye the following spring to reduce competition for the clover. i "experimented" w/ this mix last fall (no herbicide treatment) and will manage the plot this spring and summer w/ maintenance mowing and chemical weed control.

here's some pics i took last weekend.

close-up of rye/clover mix


compare to this "pure" ladino clover plot i planted last fall

jtenute

Nice pictures... I am no farmer but i am planning on planting Winter Wheat/Rye in-between the corn rows after they are cut down... My farmer who cash rents the corn on my property said thats not a problem. Then the following year he plows it and does beans.

thats what im doing but I'm no farmer... so yeah.