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
