Rye is a cereal crop, it is often planted on an infield site as an intermediate crop. What is this for? In fact, rye is an excellent prevention of all kinds of diseases and pests of vegetable crops, in addition - it does not allow the weeds to penetrate the site, neither annual nor perennial.
Winter rye, which had risen in early spring and accumulated a good green mass, by May can already be embedded in the soil as a siderata . In such a land potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers , pumpkins and zucchini grow well.
When to sow winter rye in the country?
In inexperienced gardeners, who previously did not do anything like that, the question naturally arises: when is it necessary to sow winter rye? After all, this nurse and green fertilizer is important to properly nurture.
So, the best time for sowing winter rye is the end of August - the beginning of September. Sow it in rows, with a row spacing of 15 cm. Seeds are embedded in the soil to a shallow depth. The seeding rate is 2 kg per hundred square meters.
All work after sowing winter rye is left until next spring. But in the spring time comes "to force" rye to grow actively. To do this, the bed is harrowed with rakes, the row spacing is loosened with a small flat cutter. All this provokes the plant to intensive build-up of green mass.
After that, you need to leave the rye alone, it will grow 3-4 weeks on its own. Then it is cut and embedded in the soil. You can put the tops in a compost pit, just do not need to touch the roots of the plant, otherwise the entire meaning of the siderata will be lost. After 1-2 weeks you can plant the garden with the main vegetable culture.
Is it possible to sow winter rye in October?
It is not by chance that the time when it is possible and necessary to sow winter rye falls at the end of summer - the beginning of autumn. For the period that remained before the onset of frost, rye will have time to proklyutsya,
There is no point in sowing rye later than this time. Even sown at the end of September, it will not be of use, since it will not have time to get drunk and will leave weak in winter. Over the winter, it partially freezes, so you will not get the desired result.
Is it possible to sow winter rye in the spring?
In principle, the unconventional time of sowing rye does not bode ill. It will perfectly grow by the end of summer, give a good green mass, the only thing - will not go to the ear, because for this it needs to winter. But since our goal is not harvesting, this in no way should upset us.
By the end of summer, the rye has to be cut and embedded in the soil, and in the spring to plant vegetables. On an enriched and disinfected land an excellent crop will grow.