Plant ID?

• Feb 10, 2018

• #1

deerbuster

Senior Member

Clover or a weed? Planted crimson clover in thisnplot two years ago, didn’t see any growth that year so I decided to harrow and start over. Came back in to plant oats for this fall and saw this start to come up fairly thick. Did my clover germinate and I just didn’t see it or am I being too Hopefully and this is just a weed?

 

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• Feb 10, 2018

• #2

Canuck5

Food Plot advisor extraordinaire !

I'd say you've got clover!!!!!!

 

• Feb 10, 2018

• #3

NCHillbilly

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Looks like white clover, hard to say for sure, though from the pics. It could be crimson. It's definitely some species of clover.

 

• Feb 10, 2018

• #4

blood on the ground

Cross threading is better than two lock washers.

Sure looks like white clover to me.. Keep it!

 

• Feb 10, 2018

• #5

deerbuster

Senior Member

Good deal!! I’m guessing we’d loose it if we turned the dirt for spring plots?

 

• Feb 11, 2018

• #6

NCHillbilly

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White clover is very common weed that invades lawns and fallow land. It's very hard to kill once it's established, but I'd probably leave it alone instead of turning it. I'd rather have the clover than whatever the spring plot will be.

 

• Feb 11, 2018

• #7

Canuck5

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If it is mostly crimson clover, then you will see a flower that looks like this, probably in April, and at that point the deer usage will be going down and it would be ok to till it up and plant a summer plot. If you let it go to seed, you would end up with free seed. Tilling it up and you will get some free nitrogen, at the flowering stage.

 

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• Feb 11, 2018

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Canuck5

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NCHillbilly said:

White clover is very common weed that invades lawns and fallow land. It's very hard to kill once it's established, but I'd probably leave it alone instead of turning it. I'd rather have the clover than whatever the spring plot will be.

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^^^^^^^ If you were to heed NCHillbilly's advice and mix in a variety of white and medium red clovers, in the fall, you'd have close to a year round food plot and not require a summer planting.

 

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• Feb 11, 2018

• #9

Canuck5

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After I do nothing, but some weed wiping in the summer, this is what my medium red clover looked like in September of the following year. Deer were still using it daily.

 

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• Feb 11, 2018

• #10

Canuck5

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Your planting technique might be the only thing that needs to get tweaked.

 

• Feb 11, 2018

• #11

deerbuster

Senior Member

We’ve got plans of planting ICP which should be around April. Would I benefit from broadcasting clover seed before or after planting ICPs?

 

• Feb 11, 2018

• #12

Canuck5

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Nope, plant your I&C cowpeas and then formulate a fall plan. Save your money on clover, till then.