Cover Crop / Cool season
Winter Rye Cover Crop
Late fall cover before summer crops like tomatoes, peppers, and squash.
Grown for overwintering soil cover.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 180
- Germination temperature
- 34-75F
- Seed depth
- 1 inches
- Spacing
- 2 inches
- Row spacing
- 6 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 28 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 6 weeks before first frost
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Usually relies on cool-season moisture after establishment.
- Soil
- Tolerates many garden soils.
- Watch
- Plan termination before planting vegetables; rye resumes growth in spring.
- cover-crop
- overwintering
- erosion-control
- grass
Browse context
- Cover Crop Catalog Category collection
- Grass Family Rotation and family context
- Cool Season Seeds Season collection
- Direct Sow Seeds Start-method collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
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