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.
