From Young Rye to Big Vegetables

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Starting in the Winter of 2024, we have been quite busy. Dave and Brian worked on planting a Rye cover crop. They used a mix of techniques to plant the vegetables from using the tractor to strip till and seeding to using hand tools and hand spreading. In order to use te tractor Dave had to retrofit the tractor with the help of Brian so the tractor was able to pull a tiller that only tilled a small row of rye. After the plants were seeded they stayed dormant until late may when they really started to poke out of the ground. During that time we had some issues with the weather not cooperating and a groundhog eating some of our crops. But Dave and Mike were able to reseed the cantaloups, watermelons, and pumpkins that were struggling. The weather turned in our favor and the seedling exploded out of the ground with the help of rain and hot weather. Looking back we have had very good progess from when Dave was first tilling and planting the Rye cover crop to now with the vegetables and pumpkins fully developing. All of the vegetables are looking great! The pictures below show the progress from Early March to Late June of 2025!














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