To get a thread going for November.... I plant on using Winter Rye to enrich my soil for spring. Do any of you apply a green manure in the fall to enhance your soil? What do you use and why. I tilled up my lawn to grow pumpkins and now the winter rye is growing. My wife thinks it is ugly to see a pile of mud in the back yard but we made a deal. I build a play house for my daughter and I get the lawn to grow pumpkins. She still has some of the lawn.....