Clover and a drill

[Nightvision]

For people in the south or for those up north who have a dry year and your Durana doesn’t do so well, you can drill grains into your clover.

This was done with a no till but last year we did it with a John Deere 8300 with single coulters. Worked just as good last year.

 

[jsasker007]

I have only broadcast into clover with great results.

 

[SD51555]

I’m a big fan of throwing every damn thing into the clover just before late summer mowing. It worked spectacular this year due to the drought. The clover didn’t come surging back so hard that it snuffed everything out.


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[jsasker007]

About all I do anymore is broadcast and mow. This is due to extreme laziness and total lack of ambition.

 

[SwampCat]

I have been spreading wheat into standing clover with good success now for ten years. I have one plot that has arrowleaf in it, which is an annual and that clover is just now starting to appear - maybe one or two inches high. On that plot, I do set the disk gang straight on my woods seeder and plant wheat so that I dont destroy the new clover growth. Planted that plot yesterday. Above pic is after going over new clover growth

 

[Derek Reese 29]

This was winter rye that was broadcast into clover that had been stunted (but not knocked totally back) by a 4-6 week drought last fall....it never really came up (to any appreciable degree) in the fall, then we had a good snow pack and it roared to life in the spring...in march it was the only green patch for a square mile and it seemed like every animal in the county was visiting..(at one point there were 25+ turkeys and 20+ deer in the half acre plot at the same time) and it still grew to 5' tall or so before we mowed it in June (in hindsight should have mowed ~mid-May to make it a turkey hotspot, but we still killed 3 gobblers out of the blind on this plot).

A bunch of turkeys on the plot in March

Rye and some weeds that got taken care of by mowing in June and then again in late August.

Same plot after some good rains and the August mowing. I broadcasted some winter wheat into this plot prior to mowing to see what would happen.....hopefully something good!

 

[Bassattackr]

View attachment 37861View attachment 37860I have been spreading wheat into standing clover with good success now for ten years. I have one plot that has arrowleaf in it, which is an annual and that clover is just now starting to appear - maybe one or two inches high. On that plot, I do set the disk gang straight on my woods seeder and plant wheat so that I dont destroy the new clover growth. Planted that plot yesterday. Above pic is after going over new clover growth

I'd love to see your results about a month after doing that!

Btw - When did you mow? Or just flatten with the existing wheat with packer as you planted?

 

[SwampCat]

I'd love to see your results about a month after doing that!

Btw - When did you mow? Or just flatten with the existing wheat with packer as you planted?

I sprayed it early August. The plot still had quite a bit of dead standing vegetation on it yesterday when I started but flattened out when I went over with seeder

 

[SD51555]

About all I do anymore is broadcast and mow. This is due to extreme laziness and total lack of ambition.

It's 2021 man. There are no points for effort and expenditure, only results. I declared war on plot chores years ago. I've started working on my memoirs.

 

[Bassattackr]

This was winter rye that was broadcast into clover that had been stunted (but not knocked totally back) by a 4-6 week drought last fall....it never really came up (to any appreciable degree) in the fall, then we had a good snow pack and it roared to life in the spring...in march it was the only green patch for a square mile and it seemed like every animal in the county was visiting..(at one point there were 25+ turkeys and 20+ deer in the half acre plot at the same time) and it still grew to 5' tall or so before we mowed it in June (in hindsight should have mowed ~mid-May to make it a turkey hotspot, but we still killed 3 gobblers out of the blind on this plot).

A bunch of turkeys on the plot in March

Rye and some weeds that got taken care of by mowing in June and then again in late August.

Same plot after some good rains and the August mowing. I broadcasted some winter wheat into this plot prior to mowing to see what would happen.....hopefully something good!

Always dicey mowing in June... Fawns galore.

 

[Derek Reese 29]

Always dicey mowing in June... Fawns galore.

thats really true...my brother and I walk ahead of the at the side of each tractor tire...havent gotten any that way yet (its only a half acre so its not that many passes)

 

[TreeDaddy]

It's 2021 man. There are no points for effort and expenditure, only results. I declared war on plot chores years ago. I've started working on my memoirs.

Agree

Let me introduce the portaplot....... grows in the back of your pickup.....take it with you anywhere

bill

 

[Nightvision]

Agree

Let me introduce the portaplot....... grows in the back of your pickup.....take it with you anywhere

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Don’t even have to leave the house to hunt over that one. Just move it to the upwind side of whatever window you’re going to be looking out of.

 

[SwampCat]

I'd love to see your results about a month after doing that!

Btw - When did you mow? Or just flatten with the existing wheat with packer as you planted?

It has been a little over a month, with no rain the first ten days after planting a a couple of half inch rains since. Been pretty dry here

 

[Bassattackr]

It has been a little over a month, with no rain the first ten days after planting a a couple of half inch rains since. Been pretty dry here

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Disc gangs straight, seed and pack in one pass correct? No spraying? If so, that's an impressive stand of wheat doing it this way..

 

[SwampCat]

Disc gangs straight, seed and pack in one pass correct? No spraying? If so, that's an impressive stand of wheat doing it this way..

I did spray about two months before seeding. I didnt bush hog. Just rode down the dead vegetation with the seeder. Disk gangs straight. Clover that was already there is also coming in pretty good. That is what I was trying to save, was young clover coming in. Didnt want the disk tearing it up.

 

[chucker66]

I used a modified drill this fall in one small plot with winter rye. My buddy's Dad cut this drill down to 6 feet for use with his horses, but we could pull it with the ATV. Worked great. There is still some Reed Canary Grass in there but the deer have absolutely pounded it and still are in NW Wis. This plot is maybe 100'x30'.

 

[chucker66]

Opening day gun season. Still green even with a little snow !!