[etowns54]

Has anyone dealt with a good plot mix that the rye grass shoots off overpowering the rest of the mix? We had our plot in great looking shape and then the last 2 weeks the rye grass took off to 2 feet high drowning out the rest of the mix. We took the weed whacked to the rye grass. Any chance the rest of the mix which has clover, rape, turnips etcs in it takes back off?

 

[Swamped]

Just got done weedwacking a plot myself...but diferent situation making post soon here.
Any pics?

 

[TBrom]

My experience when planting a rye mix is to plant the last week of August first week of September for this very reason. It will grow in temperatures down to about 36 degrees. It's a great screening crop to protect your clover and other mixes. Plus the deer will hammer it in the late fall when it's only 4 to 6 inches and growing.

Since it's already planted by all means go ahead and weed whack it, but that's a heck of an undertaking if your plots of any size. Just be careful that the chaff doesn't lay too thick and kill off your other seeds. You're probably going to be battling it all fall. Eventually if you keep it cut down the clover will overtake it.

 

[OAWC]

Cereal rye or rye grass in the mix?

A lot of "throw and grow" mixes have lots of rye grass so the plot manager has some pretty green growth....

I don't think the tall rye grass will choke out the other stuff, but keeping it trimmed will keep will help keep it more tender for the deer to forage on. We have never had any luck with deer utilizing rye grass, but they love the cereal rye through the winter and early spring.

 

[ng270]

You could spray with Clethodim to kill only the 'grass' (whether it is rye grass, rye grain, wheat, ...).

Are you certain that the grass you are seeing is something that was in the mix, or could it be something like Johnson grass?

 

[HomeintheWoods]

I had a rye grass problem last year.
Brush hogged it in May before it went to seed. Tilled. Planted buckwheat. Brush hogged it early August. Tilled. Planted brassicas a week ago. Now I have a plot of 1 inch volunteer buckwheat and just emerging brassica mix.
What I didn't see during the summer, and hope I don't see this fall, is a re-emergence of the rye grass.