Alternatives to chicory in a clover plot

[Stubborn1VT]

My biggest plot (1 acre) is heavy clay and tends to be wet. Anyone have a good alternative to adding chicory to my clover? I'm looking for something to make use of the N the clover produces, but chicory doesn't like the wet.
If all else fails, I'll just rotate my older clover strips into brassicas for a year or two.

 

[bigboreblr]

plantain. My home plot seasonally floods and does just fine n there. Plantain shines in poor soil areas as well as good ones too. Both english (boston) and common plantain survive at camp in zone 3 as well.

It did fine before I put drainage in. Is there a way to dig out a small depression to guide the runoff to the lowest part? Since I cleaned up my backyard channel, I had yet to have flooding exceed 2 days.

Green cover and petcher seeds sell them.

 

[farmlegend]

Yessir, I have clayish soils myself, and many many common food plot and cover crop species aren't worth a damn on my dirt. Among them is chicory. Experimenting with a couple varieties of plantain this year, will report back my results. Planted some in August last year in concert with other seeds but the drought made that planting a bust. Frostseeded some a month ago.

Trying a chicory variety called "Endure" this year, which is purportedly more tolerant of wetter conditions than the others I have tried. Fingers crossed.

 

[Stubborn1VT]

Yessir, I have clayish soils myself, and many many common food plot and cover crop species aren't worth a damn on my dirt. Among them is chicory. Experimenting with a couple varieties of plantain this year, will report back my results. Planted some in August last year in concert with other seeds but the drought made that planting a bust. Frostseeded some a month ago.

Trying a chicory variety called "Endure" this year, which is purportedly more tolerant of wetter conditions than the others I have tried. Fingers crossed.

I looked into plantain, but couldn't find an amount and a price that I was happy with.

I'm also going to try Endure chicory. I frost seeded one area a couple weeks ago, but I'll try it more seriously in an August planting.

I have had the opposite problem two years in a row: too much rain here in Vermont. Plot has been soggy!

 

[farmlegend]

I have had the opposite problem two years in a row: too much rain here in Vermont. Plot has been soggy!

Which was precisely the problem of my spring planting of a cover crop mix. Rain, rain, more rain, I still had some ponded spots into July. Most of my seeds got waterlogged or the plants just died. Never saw sunflower, buckwheat, Sunn Hemp, turnips/brassicas, grazing corn, safflower, radish, flax, and more. The Japanese Millet in the mix saved me.