cereal rye for winter cover crop?

 I have poor clay soil and am interested in using cereal rye in my
veggie garden as a  winter cover crop to improve it.

Has anyone tried this and what was your experience?

Also, where would one go to purchase cereal rye seeds for a relatively
small vegetable garden?

I'm in zone 6, by the way.

 

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/catalog/product.aspx?scommand=search&search=rye&item –8G

 

 We used to call it winter Rye and local farm supply had it.  They are
mostly gone now here.  Johnny's is excellent a guy that loves  garden
work.  Hear he either turned the venture over to his employees or is
working on it.
 Wish Walnut Acres was still about!

 Bill

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 On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:08:53 -0400, William Wagner



I am assuming you mean the local farm supply stores are nearly gone.
Same around these parts.  Every small town had one, sometmes two of
them.

Hadn't heard that Rob was turning Johnny's over.  He has been at it a
long time, and yes, he is great, as is his business.

I'm not familiar with Walnut Acres.

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Charlie........ Listening to Country Joe...I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to
Die Rag

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http://www.nofa.org/tnf/2006spring/The%20Walnut%20Acres%20Story.pdf

We used to be able to have food deliveries sent to a local house and
pick it up to save on shipping.  I seem to remember that about 1948 they
asked some guy over in India what they can do to make the world a better
place.  He said good food.  Same guy is credited with getting Britain
out of India.

Sad  and wonderful PDF.


Bill who was born in 1948.

First product was Apple Butter !

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