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The backyard garden’s cover crop of winter rye and annual ryegrass is coming up nicely: 

The grass with the thick blades is the Winter Rye and the one with the thin blades in the Annual Ryegrass. Both are good for fixing nitrogen in the soil and adding biomass: 

The real work horse for fixing nitrogen is the hairy vetch. That’s it growing along the fence around our blueberry patch: 

More hairy vetch and blueberry bush: 

A close up of some new growth on a hairy vetch vine: 

I love the color of blueberry bushes in the Fall. We left the tags on the plants so we can compare how the different varieties perform when we start actual fruit production next year. We have seven plants of three different varieties (Two Tifblue, two Climax & three Brightwell) in the patch which allows for good pollination. Those varieties are all rabbiteye blueberry bushes. That is the species of blueberry that does well here in Tennessee: