Oh Dave and Trish this is my new most favorite episode if my favorite podcast! I love the fall season, mulching, cover crops, and learning how to overwinter. I am just getting serious about growing garlic. I ordered a large quantity from our very own Dr Dawg, instead of plunking a little toe here and there. It is all so fun. Thank you for the wonderful entertainment, inspiration, motivation, and learning opportunities

Thank you!!!

I think I will try growing garlic! I never knew that it grew through the winter and I love garlic in my dishes

We have a huge oak tree and the leaves fall all over a lot of my flower beds. A wonderful natural mulch for winter and fertilizer too!

I really enjoyed listening to the podcast. I always learn something!

I bought some annual ryegrass and am trying to get it planted on my garden area. I have read that it can be troublesome if not cut down at the right time so I am a little Leary.

Yes, we definitely get it coming up all the time!

I wonder if it can or would choke out that darn wire grass that just consumes ALL SPACES. it sends runners underground and gets into everything. I am trying to get rid of it but haven't found the trick yet

Planting things like this is definitely one strategy for choking out other things. Will it work is a separate question!

Ha ha is that a classic disclaimer
Well, what has your experience been with annual ryegrass in garden areas - not livestock pastures?

The annual ryegrass grows extremely thickly and out competes everything, including the desirables. When it gets into the ornamental gardens it is a weed, but thankfully it's fairly easy to control. The video we posted last summer of a two-person weeding job: most of those weeds were actually annual ryegrass!!!

But we love it in the chicken pens over winter, and of course in the pasture. I have in the past covered entire vegetable gardens with it over winter with great results but I don't grow large traditional vegetable garden plots anymore.

@dave Thank you ~ I did watch the video last summer. It looked a little labor intensive to me. I think I may try it in little patches.... I am thinking it can’t be as hard to control as the wire grass I have trying to take over all of my garden....
I wonder if I can weed eat it down to kill it but leave the roots?

I don't have wiregrass here so I can't make that comparison. But the ryegrass isn't that bad. We can and do mow it and it often does not recover from a simple mowing. In the weeding example, we weeded it out because we wanted it completely gone so we could garden in that spot.