But she said they were preparing to sow the winter rye.
I did not know whether they had come to sow a crop of winter rye, or some other kind of grain recently introduced from Iceland.
Keep pulling up crops that have gone to seed; plant a cover crop of winter rye to add nutrients and tilth to the soil.
High summer, which begins with the harvest of winter rye, starts between 10 and 16 July.
Sow a crop of winter rye or some other "green manure" in parts of the garden not being used.
It was disorienting to see the panoply of color where before he had seen only brown dirt and green winter rye.
Planting cover crops like winter rye, buckwheat and clover can also slow the release of carbon, by sequestering it in plant roots.
"Did I mention I just planted winter rye last weekend?"
The winter rye is already sprouting green in the undulating fields of the state cooperative farm here.
It's time to plant cover crops of winter rye, to add nitrogen and tilth to the soil.