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5 year old buck +
Everyone seems to say to frost seed in March (in my part of the country).
Is there any reason why clover seed shouldn't be spread now, or anytime after the fall growth period has ended?
It's just a matter of having the time and conditions to spread it. I always seem to wait until March, but why can't I spread seed now?
It's mainly to thicken up well used food plots that get a lot of deer use throughout the winter. Clover, cereal rye, and high sugar perennial ryegrass is there now and getting heavily used. It's normally all mud by spring and I get the creeps that I'm losing topsoil during early spring rain before new growth starts.
My deer eat anything that's green all winter long. Clover and cereal rye are a 12 month food here.
BTW, I'm starting to think that high sugar perennial ryegrass may be a good forage for areas with high deer numbers. The jury has been out on the stuff for a couple of years but they are using it pretty well now, but I really want to see how the stuff holds up in late winter. The history of my plots is that it's eaten to mud by March and becomes an erosion problem. I'm hoping the HS Ryegrass can be a compromise between providing forage and durability to protect soil. In some areas of high DPSM, those highly desirable forages attract too much traffic and the soil suffers.
Is there any reason why clover seed shouldn't be spread now, or anytime after the fall growth period has ended?
It's just a matter of having the time and conditions to spread it. I always seem to wait until March, but why can't I spread seed now?
It's mainly to thicken up well used food plots that get a lot of deer use throughout the winter. Clover, cereal rye, and high sugar perennial ryegrass is there now and getting heavily used. It's normally all mud by spring and I get the creeps that I'm losing topsoil during early spring rain before new growth starts.
My deer eat anything that's green all winter long. Clover and cereal rye are a 12 month food here.
BTW, I'm starting to think that high sugar perennial ryegrass may be a good forage for areas with high deer numbers. The jury has been out on the stuff for a couple of years but they are using it pretty well now, but I really want to see how the stuff holds up in late winter. The history of my plots is that it's eaten to mud by March and becomes an erosion problem. I'm hoping the HS Ryegrass can be a compromise between providing forage and durability to protect soil. In some areas of high DPSM, those highly desirable forages attract too much traffic and the soil suffers.