Forest Grump
Senior Member
Man those are beautiful!! I think I’m gonna have our limed this spring disced under and come this fall I’m gonna plant ladino and durana clover with oats or wheat. Then the next spring I’m gonna treat it once and hopefully it will turn into a pure stand. From that point I think I’m gonna start discing under 1/3 of the clover each fall and plant a brassica to give them a late winter food source. Each year I will plow under a different 1/3 of the clover And plant brassicas there. I was thinking this way the nitrogen the legume produces would be great for the brassicas. Thoughts?
There's no need to disc the clover; if you want brassicas you can just surface seed radishes or turnips right into the clover. The seeds are very tiny & will come up when it rains without having to be covered. The clover won't release the N as well as if you killed it, so you might need a little fertilizer, & you would do well to kill the brassicas just prior to spring green up so they don't shade out the clover (either 2-4 D-B or Basagran will work without killing the clover), but they actually make good companion plants.