Still waiting for that second window...

That first haying window in early June has also been the only one.   Some of the hay we cut got rained on a bit.   I think we'll feed it to own animals this winter, because anything we cut now will have less nutritional value.  I tried some of it on the sheep and they gave it a thumbs up.   Sheep are pretty discriminating about hay.  I now have more confidence in it.

We know one buyer who may still want some late-cut hay, and we still plan to cut more.

My husband bush hogged the remaining buckwheat, which is a green manure, in the garden beds this afternoon, then took the cultivator around and turned the beds under.  We'll turn them under once more this evening, and if things look ok, plant winter rye.   It is supposed to rain off and on the next few days, so that should give the rye a good start.  Ordinarily we'd wait a couple of days and let the green stuff break down a bit before planting, but with all the rain in the forecast, we're afraid we'll just grow weeds and undue the good work of the buckwheat, which smothered a lot of the weeds for us.