Ferri in the Rye

We could not ignore it any longer. The rye was getting to the height where it would soon go to seed and you could see how tall it was in the previous blogpost. So, my husband changed the tractor attachment to the Ferri mower and made fast work of cutting down the rye.

The result after mowing the rye looks like this:

This was only the beginning of the next phase of work because the next attachment that my husband put on the tractor was a Rankin three in one cultivator. He used it to clear the not-rye rows, which were planted in the fall with oats, nitro radish and crimson clover. This was in preparation for putting in grass in every other row. We did that on Saturday.

We think that it is slowly beginning to look like a real vineyard!