Why I’ve never had clover last till the next hunting season
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jsasker007
5 year old buck +
OUCH!
Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
Obviously y’all aren’t doing your part for the climate 
I intentionally let the weeds go - up to a point in my summer clover. I dont like johnson grass in my plots - but weeds provide shade and preserve the length of clover viability. A lot of times when I am seeding wheat into my plots in Oct, there will be no visible clover. Whenever I plant my wheat in the fall, I always add a couple lbs per acre clover.
omicron1792
5 year old buck +
That’s same for me Swamp. Exactly how I do it. I really never know how much clover comes back because I always plant some each fall again.
Last few years we have been in such a cycle of dry and hot in August and September. It wouldn’t surprise me if I don’t get any more rain till October
Bill
Administrator
say it ain't so again this year....
omicron1792
5 year old buck +
It’s been rainy all summer. I think my luck is up.
That said, the farmers almanac said it would be a rainy mild summer. So who knows.
Wind Gypsy
5 year old buck +
The faucet has been steady since spring for me, which means it’s about to turn off because plots are getting planted this weekend.
Omicron-Pardon my ignorance as I am in Michigan and once I get a white clover plot established it lasts a few years and pretty much all summer. So I take it that you start a perennial clover plot in the fall and it lasts through the following spring and then once it goes dormant in the heat and drought of summer it never comes back in the fall? Did this also occur with Aberlasting? Almost sounds like if I were you I would stick to annual clovers. We get some periods of heat and drought up here but even though the clover goes somewhat dormant it always bounces back once we get some rain. So what do you do just replant every late summer/fall?
My clover usually lasts into August and then starts drying up with 100 degree temp and no rain for a month or two. I do have clover that has come back for 14 or 15 years with me doing nothing to it. Imperial Whitetail. I dont think the current seed makeup is the same as it was 15 yrs ago.
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Getting dry here, haven’t had a good rain in a month. Couple tenths here and there is it, north and west of us have gotten some really nice 2”-3” rains.
We are going through a nice cooling front just now, makes it a joy to work outside.
My clover patches are lush right now, Durana and Ladino mix.
We are going through a nice cooling front just now, makes it a joy to work outside.
My clover patches are lush right now, Durana and Ladino mix.
omicron1792
5 year old buck +
So
Most of my fields I double crop. Those I use grains and annual clovers and I drill right into the standing summer crop in mid October. That’s what works best here in Alabama.
For my two perennial clover fields, which don’t do great here in the heat, I use a Firminator in late September to light disc the clover and seeds from previous season, and I plant another round of perennial clovers and chicory. Then later I add a grain over the top.
There are legends of people in my area, keeping a perennial, clover crop, and I do feel like I am getting closer. The Aberlasting has done pretty well, but I mixed it with lots of other white clovers, renovation white, some Persian clover, some medium, red, clover, yellow, and white, sweet clover, bird foot tree foil, chicory.
omicron1792
5 year old buck +
T-Max
5 year old buck +
If that were around here, my money would be on goldenrod.
