Derek Reese 29
5 year old buck +
Hello again everyone,
Just trying to get my thoughts together for the spring. Most of our existing plots really only need over/frost seeded and sprayed but we have just gotten permission to plant a nice little 1.5 acre plot. This plot has been brush hogged recently (last fall or the fall before I believe) and has no huge weeds and is actually pretty flat. Most of the weeds I believe are broadleaf. My thought was to just frost seed a variety of red clover, aberlasting, ladino and alsike clover into it, then put some kind of grain (either rye, triticale or oats) a few weeks later to help it along. There are a lot of deer around, plus turkeys that wiped out a rye plot in this area because I didnt get the seed deep enough into the ground. See the table below for amounts, I know the amounts are high, but I will be frost seeding and I want the clover/grains to outcompete the weeds (I can and plan to spray)... what would be your suggestions on amounts/varieties of clover. (I will be getting a soil test once the foot of snow melts and the ground thaws as I know it will need lime, at the very least). I would really like to avoid haring/plowing this field and think the clover seeds would be small enough to work into the soil around the existing thatch.
3 lbs gallant red clover, 3 lbs aberlasting clover, 6lbs jumbo ladino clover, 12 lbs mammoth red clover, 6 lbs alsike clover, 200 lbs spring rye/oats/triticale
Thanks in advance for the help.
Just trying to get my thoughts together for the spring. Most of our existing plots really only need over/frost seeded and sprayed but we have just gotten permission to plant a nice little 1.5 acre plot. This plot has been brush hogged recently (last fall or the fall before I believe) and has no huge weeds and is actually pretty flat. Most of the weeds I believe are broadleaf. My thought was to just frost seed a variety of red clover, aberlasting, ladino and alsike clover into it, then put some kind of grain (either rye, triticale or oats) a few weeks later to help it along. There are a lot of deer around, plus turkeys that wiped out a rye plot in this area because I didnt get the seed deep enough into the ground. See the table below for amounts, I know the amounts are high, but I will be frost seeding and I want the clover/grains to outcompete the weeds (I can and plan to spray)... what would be your suggestions on amounts/varieties of clover. (I will be getting a soil test once the foot of snow melts and the ground thaws as I know it will need lime, at the very least). I would really like to avoid haring/plowing this field and think the clover seeds would be small enough to work into the soil around the existing thatch.
3 lbs gallant red clover, 3 lbs aberlasting clover, 6lbs jumbo ladino clover, 12 lbs mammoth red clover, 6 lbs alsike clover, 200 lbs spring rye/oats/triticale
Thanks in advance for the help.