Central WI sandy soil clover

[WI hunter]

Whats a good clover to use i the sandy soil of central WI?

 

[John-W-WI]

@bueller should be able to help. I don't have sand, but I have lots of rocks!

 

[Tree Spud]

Whats a good clover to use i the sandy soil of central WI?

We have loamy sand soil and I have had good luck with Ladino white clover & medium red clover. A good starting point would be to check with your local Feed Mill. They will have good experience with what does well in your area.

 

[Barndog56]

I have 3 to 4 inches of dirt on top of my sand. Even so it only takes a couple days to dry out again after rain. Ladino does well except it gets crunchy during dry spells, but will come back again. Red clover thrives even during the dry periods, as does my alfalfa.

 

[Nova]

I also have had good luck with ladino on sandy loam soil in MN

 

[Peeps]

I'll also vote for ladino. It's worked well for me.

 

[bueller]

Medium red clover grows great in our sand and gets lots of use by the deer. I'm sure others work well and maybe even better but I haven't experimented much since the medium red has been so successful for me.

 

[Ben Glantz]

I have had pretty good luck with white dutch and ladino, medium red and crimson clovers. Over the white ladino and dutch has done the best in my sand box food plot. I have also frost seeded the 4 wheeler trails the farmer uses to cruise around the farm and the white clovers have made it the longest and seem to be doing ok.

 

[Tree Spud]

Whats a good clover to use i the sandy soil of central WI?

I think clover is one of those resilient plants designed for constant grazing. While it affixes nitrogen, you have to have organic matter (OM) (bio mass) in your soil to hold the nitrogen. If you have sandy soil, you need a long term plan for increasing OM in your soil. Read LC's cereal grain thread for soil building. Will take time, but long term benefits are huge!

http://www.habitat-talk.com/index.php?threads/cereal-grains-for-whitetails.1381/

 

[Big Snow Man]

Red clover and try not using much tillage equipment so you can start building OM.

 

[JFK52]

My land is in the Central Sands area. I have planted ladino clover in the past and it did well. I rent out a 12 acre field to a farmer and he grows alfalfa in it.

 

[WI hunter]

Thanks for the replies guys, I have some ladino so Im happy to read it does good in sandy soil. Plan is to do as little tilling as possible and throw n mow the clover. I figure even if it takes a little extra seed, its worth it not to disrupt the existing root system.