mowing clover...

[growalot]

I took advantage of the rain,cool down and more rain due here soon to mow my clover again...I know they say 1-2 times a year .but this is growing so darn fast and I am still having some weed issues...I waited until the grass seed heads got good and tall and the wild chicory hadn't fully pollinated yet....This will be the last mowing I'll due... I planted this new last year..it was an iffy plot in the fall ,but exploded this spring...deer are loving it.  I'm pretty sure the clover growth will help smoother out  much of whats left...the weed spraying (2% round up) worked really well on the grasses and those areas have filled in with the clover pretty well. I had done a full spraying this spring in the lower food plot to kill so I could replant...time has me in reverse this year,at least it feels that way, and I haven't gotten back to it. Planned a winter turnip plot there...Well yesterday the whole plot was a sea of wht flowers. The clover is short but growing well. I may just hit it with  some fertilizer and let it go until spring.

[landtracdeerhunter]

I like to summer fallow my clover ground, plant it to wheat in the fall, then frost seed in March. Never ever a weed issue in 43 years of doing. No sprays needed, cheaper, and far better for the environment. Of coarse, I take the hay cutting off, so this may not work for everyone.

[growalot]

I like to summer fallow my clover ground, plant it to wheat in the fall, then frost seed in March. Never ever a weed issue in 43 years of doing. No sprays needed, cheaper, and far better for the environment. Of coarse, I take the hay cutting off, so this may not work for everyone.

 

Even in this heat the clover plots seemed to like that last cutting...looking at these you wouldn't think it was so dang dry out there...but the ground is all cracked......This no rain and heat is just killing the new plots...I can hear the $$$ circling the bowl on those. I'm thinking if I can get the dang rocks under control in the lower plots...Alfalfa/ clover will be going in and I'll cut back on the annual plots.....either that or I'll leave the fields bare and plant just fall plots.......They do like the cloves on the finished upper plots...not a single corn seed survived the birds in the swt corn(4" apart,a lot of seed) plot...though the cucurbit are doing well.