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Originally Posted by tarheelchick
It was called "Gulf Annual Ryegrass"
pure seed 97.08%
crop seed 2.00%
Inert matter .80%
weed seed .12%
Noxious weeds: none found
can someone explain to me what that means? And was this the correct thing to plant or no?
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You're cover crop of annual ryegrass is fine. Annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) is often recommended as a cover crop. I'm not sure exactly what hardiness zone you are in, but I suspect it is similar to mine because your ryegrass survived the winter. In colder zones, you'll get winter kill. I think you should definitely cut the grass before any seed heads develop. If you use a weedeater / line trimmer, like others have suggested, you can cut it really close to the soil which will help kill it. Then you can smother it with mulch. I agree with others about not tilling; I'm a no-till believer myself. You will want to kill it, though, because annual ryegrass can sometimes be allelopathic.