Red Clover

[landtracdeerhunter]

 Early growth. Almost like it grows under the snow.  Deer and turkey are on it now.  It also will grow in some of my poorer drain soils. Took these pics this morning.

 

Edit, Have some areas greener than these, but not able to download.

Edited March 24, 2013 by landtracdeerhunter

[SplitG2]

Very hard to beat clover as a go to food plot.

[Pav2704]

Is it too early to plant clover during the first or second week of April?

[landtracdeerhunter]

This seeding is just a year old. I frost seeded  40 lb.  of red 2 weeks ago. Just put my grass seed on this morning. Have done this for 40 years.

[landtracdeerhunter]

Is it too early to plant clover during the first or second week of April?

 

Actually, it's a little late in April. I have one field that is creek flats, and I have to make sure the seed is firmly in soil before the floods, or it will float away.  I cyclone seed that in February on bare ground.   I generally  like to get mine on when the Red Wing Black birds arrive on other soils. Just something I do, that has been handed down from each generation. If we get the usual April rains, u can gamble with spreading it, might work out. I really have never tried it, and with clover at $2.80/ lb., I won't, LOL.

 

[phade]

Frost seeded some red clover (and some left over Landino) on a 1/3 acre area...was likley once farmed, but hasn't been in quite a few years. Not a ton of tall grass there, but got it in with a few snow/melt cycles. More or less an experiment as the plot will be prepped for fall planting of brassica/radish...unless this goes ganbuster on the small chance. Obviously it won't be a great stand so new, but any growth would incline me to keep part of it.

 

[Fantail]

And here I was all excited about being down to a foot of snow on my plots 

[landtracdeerhunter]

Frost seeded some red clover (and some left over Landino) on a 1/3 acre area...was likley once farmed, but hasn't been in quite a few years. Not a ton of tall grass there, but got it in with a few snow/melt cycles. More or less an experiment as the plot will be prepped for fall planting of brassica/radish...unless this goes ganbuster on the small chance. Obviously it won't be a great stand so new, but any growth would incline me to keep part of it.

Last March, I  trial frost seeded red clover, timothy, blue grass, and red top what had been into wheat the year before, about 1 acre. The grasses all came along but, with very little clover, so I cut what hay their was off last season and left it till this spring for plow down. Took a walk yesterday, and to my amazement, the piece is green with clover.

 

[growalot]

That's Good...one less thing to do!!

[landtracdeerhunter]

And here I was all excited about being down to a foot of snow on my plots 

Yes but, u will have the added moisture  from melt down, which we aren't receiving. It's already drier than usual here. Water table is down. The ground is still sucking up the water from last years drought.