(Quoting myself)
Quote:
Winter Rye flowers when the day length gets to 14 hours,
so you can watch the sunrise-sunset difference in your
weather report to know when to give it the "fatal last mowing".
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I see that the day length never actually gets to 14 hours
in Corpus Christi, according to
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...&afl=-11&day=1
So I guess you would have to cut it off short a couple of weeks
before plant out, and then put a thick mulch on it (like 6
inches, more if you have it) to keep the rye from regrowing.
Splice (organic burn-down herbicide) is an option, but it
costs something, of course. The rye itself should provide
a lot of green material for mulch.
Edit:
That should be Scythe, rather than "Splice". There may be
other products as well whose active ingredient is
pelargonic acid.
Day length does not get to 14 hours in Abilene until May,
and I assume that Creister plants out long before then,
so either cereal/winter/field rye cultivars are available
that flower in spring on shorter days or covering the mowed
rye with a thick mulch is effective even if the rye has not
flowered yet.