I have a small remote plot that I throw and mowed with winter rye last fall. Germination was pretty good, however the area I put it in is a bottomland area that is wet in the spring. The area is usually completely dry in the fall but can have some standing water in the spring after periods of fast snow melt or big rains because it drains slowly. This spring was particularly wet and killed the rye as it was trying to come back in. Without the rye, it was taken over again by the grasses and weeds that were there before. My original plan was to have rye in fall/ spring and buckwheat in the summer, however that doesn’t seem to be the option for this area.
I was wondering if anyone has tried balansa clover in a situation like this? I thought I could seed rye and balansa this fall, then hopefully mow the area in late spring/ early summer to help the clover and clean up weeds/terminate any rye that made it, then mow again in September and overseed with rye and clover (since balansa looks like it’s an annual). Any thoughts?
I was wondering if anyone has tried balansa clover in a situation like this? I thought I could seed rye and balansa this fall, then hopefully mow the area in late spring/ early summer to help the clover and clean up weeds/terminate any rye that made it, then mow again in September and overseed with rye and clover (since balansa looks like it’s an annual). Any thoughts?