JERRED GRACEY
5 year old buck +
WE HAVE AN ACRE OF CLOVER, ABOUT 2 YEARS OLD WE HAVE SOME FOX TAIL AND GRASSES COMING IN NOW, THE CLOVER IS GREENING UP QUICK, WHEN IS TO EARKY TO SPRAY? THIS IS IN ILLINOIS
SPRAYING CLOVER
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Spiider
5 year old buck +
Just remember, deer are browsers, they like diversity. I used to make sure my clover plot was weed free and as pretty as it could be. Now I let it go a little bit and still see the deer browsing the clover but on the grasses too. I won't let the clover get overtaken, but I'm ok with some "weeds" now. The deer won't mind. Like many, time seems to be a lot of our biggest enemies. Shave an hour here and there to invest it on more pressing projects/issues. That's me anyway.
Steve Oehlenschlager
5 year old buck +
Personally unless a field is OVERGROWN with grasses.........I wait to spray for grasses about July 4th. Spraying later means the plot will stay clean all fall. Most grasses that we battle are cool season grasses and they thrive growing in the spring. It seems if you spray in the spring....by fall you still have grass again.
Deer sure do like the diversity in browse , Maybe its a here thing but we get a lot of white companion ( White cockle ) it seems to sprout mid summer and is perennial , They browse that as hard as alfalfa or clover in plots , just because theres a few weeds doesn't make it bad we let them grow and see what they use . Of coarse they wont touch the summer annual grasses much .
Steve Oehlenschlager
5 year old buck +
Yes some weeds are a great food source.....but cool season grasses when everything else is going gangbusters is not going to do you any good...it will only set back the beneficial plants.
