How to Grow Rye: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

Secale cereale

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Guides

• Sowing Rye: Autumn Timing, Depth and Seeding Rate for Grain or Cover Crop
• How to Care for Rye: Feeding, Lodging and Keeping a Cover Crop in the Useful Window
• Rye Growing Calendar: From Autumn Sowing to Termination or Grain Harvest
• Rye Problems: Ergot, Rusts, Volunteers and the Allelopathy That Stops Your Next Sowing
• Harvesting Rye: Hard Dough, Threshing, and Checking Every Grain for Ergot

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (23)

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.