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Old 01-04-2014, 12:20 AM posted to rec.gardens
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tilled mucho horse manure into soil last fall and covered with wheat
straw..........lots of wheat berries in the straw and it grew few inches
before it got real cold......i read that wheat was an annual and that the
wheat would die off by spring........but that did not happen......

yes, wheat is an annual, but it tolerates quite
a bit of cold with a good snow cover and we certainly
had that this year.

winter wheat is a common crop here in michigan,
i'm not sure where you heard that from? i planted
both winter rye and winter wheat last fall as ground
cover crops and green manure for later this spring
(when i can actually do something and turn it under).
both of them have done fine. even some of the last
planted seeds that went in right before the ground
froze seem to have sprouted under the snow and are
now growing when we get some sunshine.

oats won't make it through a winter.

i too went out yesterday and today to check a few
things out. a few flowers are starting to poke up.
at last. been a long cold winter.


soil is still wet, thought not soggy.....is it ok to plant peas and
lettuce? TIA.............

good luck if you do, i'll probably wait a few weeks
yet, the ground is frozen in most places here and the
weather is still looking to be too cold overnight.


songbird
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