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bjrogg:
Started digging beets with the sun coming up and the moon going down

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bjrogg:
Really another pretty day

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bjrogg:
Our mixture of rye and radish has really taken off. The radishes are about four feet tall and starting to make seed. I don’t want them to make seed . It would be like weed seeds.

I want to set back the radishes and keep it from making seeds.

I want to keep my rye over winter and plant my sugar beets next spring into the living rye.

I spray the radishes with a product similar to what most people use for their lawns. It will keep the radishes from going to seed but not harm the rye.

Usually I just till the radishes and the rye comes back, but it was very dry and I didn’t want to kill the rye so I decided to try this method.

One thing is for sure . We put tons and tons of organic matter into our soil. The radishes should help with nematode population to.

I have come to enjoy my cover crops as much as my real crops.

My wife said the other day. The time of year all the fields are turning brown.

I said not ours. Ours are all turning green again with cover crops. Boy I really do appreciate that though the winter

Bjrogg

bjrogg:
Radishes up to my chest

Starting to make seed

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bjrogg:
The colors are changing.

But our harvested fields are turning green again.

Here’s rye just coming up and leaves on the trees showing off their colors

Bjrogg

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