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🌱 Planting Window

• ☀️ Best: Late Spring to Mid-Summer, once soil is warm and frost danger has passed
• 🍂 Also Good: Late Summer, with enough warm weather remaining to establish before frost
• ❄️ Not Recommended: Cool spring soils or after frost has arrived

Best for

• 🌱 Covering bare soil quickly
• 🌿 Competing with summer weeds
• 🪴 Building fine, fibrous root mass
• 🍂 Adding organic matter
• 💧 Protecting exposed soil
• ❄️ Easy frost-kill termination

Ideal Uses

• Empty raised beds
• Summer fallow gardens
• Between vegetable crops
• New garden areas
• Orchard or garden rows
• Anywhere you need quick summer ground cover

Why gardeners love it

• Establishes quickly in warm weather
• Creates dense, fine roots throughout the topsoil
• Helps crowd out weeds
• Protects soil during hot summer months
• Frost-sensitive, so winter termination is simple
• Leaves behind plant material that feeds the soil as it breaks down

🌱 Farm Wisdom

Bare soil doesn’t stay bare for long. Plant something useful before nature chooses what grows there.