Judith Browning

joylynn,

I buy a five pound bag of organic rye berries from azure...same as you would grind for flour for bread.
It has great germination and I try to plant in the early fall.
Scything time is whenever I need the space so not very methodical there.
I do love the kind of blue green color of the rye grain plants and it discourages any other plants while it's growing.
....andmakes the nicest swooshing sound when scythed.

I know that rye grass is a wonderful cover crop but I got annoyed when I cut it at the wrong time and couldn't get it to die back....will try again one day after we learn from your experience🙃

I just scythed my rye grain but yours looks like rye grass?

I've grown rye grass in the past and tried to cut it to make space to plant some things and yes it kept growing and I kept cutting ...nice for some handy mulch.   I pulled it where the tomatoes went in, might have been peppers.

I've walked down some cover crop but don't remember what or even of it worked🤔...maybe winter peas and oats as they got too messy to scythe.

Gratitude places you
in the energy field of plentitude.
Glow with gratitude
and see how awe and joy
will make their home in you.

Michael Bernard Beckwith
(1956 to pres., New Thought minister, author, founder and spiritual director
of the Agape International Spiritual Center)

some helpful advice in this long thread...
https://permies.com/t/17569/perennial-vegetables/sweet-potato-propagation-harvest

I always feel like I'm late starting slips...but, there they are and I'm not quite ready to plant!

Next year, I plan to follow the instructions in the pdf above.
Outside, in a bed of sand.

here's a link to a pdf for growing sweet potatoes in Arkansas....most of the information should apply to other areas also.
https://www.uaex.uada.edu/publications/PDF/FSA-6018.pdf

so exciting!!!
Congratulations on this major step!

That is such a huge space I can't wait to see what you can grow in there😊

Welcome to the forums Vernon and thank you for your input...great and very useful information!

If we take responsibility
for our own little piece,
because of interconnectedness,
you take care of yourself,
you're also taking care of the world.
Each one of us
is the cells of the one body of the planet.
And when it becomes we,
rather than me,
that's a very healing direction to go in.

Jon Kabat-Zinn
(1944 to pres., Medical Doctor and Mindfulness Teacher)

thank you j.
this has been a kind of therapy for me...to try to keep my head in a better space...so glad that other's are enjoying.