Red clover question

[SRShunter]

Is the red clover slow to establish like the white for a fall planting? Will it be more noticeable this fall during hunting season or will it really just stand out this coming spring? I planted medium red and yuchi arrowleaf

 

[Canuck5]

It'll be next spring when both of them will shine.

 

[sghoghunter]

I was wondering the same thing. I have an old pasture/pecan orchard that I’m thinking about making maybe an acre into a clover plot in the back next to the woods.

 

[Ihunt]

Red clover isn’t a perennial. Just pointing that out in case y’all didn’t know

 

[SRShunter]

I'm a annual type man for now. White clovers don't do well for me. Red clover lives matter too

 

[Marsupial]

Think it’s considered a Bi-annual. But I planted some three years ago that’s still doing well. it does good in poor soils and lasts all summer.

 

[Howard Roark]

I was under the impression that it reseeded itself.

 

[SRShunter]

I was under the impression that it reseeded itself.

It does

 

[Canuck5]

If I am raising red clover, to cut, bale and feed cattle with, which gets cut at the flowering stage, it may only last a couple years, before it thins out enough that you have to replant.

If you plant it, let it flower and go to seed ..... it will reseed.

 

[Howard Roark]

Is crimson clover a better choice? I understand it is different from red clover.

 

[Canuck5]

Yes, it is different. Based on my (limited) experience, crimson will show up earlier than red clover, but die out and reseed in mid spring. Red clover has a deeper root system and "can" tolerate a lot more heat and drought than crimson and white clover.

I plant a mix of a lot of things, because, from a nutrition standpoint, I want the protein from clover to feed the deer as close to year round as I can.



This was my medium red clover, which lasted thru the heat and drought (a 3 clover blend) ...... but I foolishly worked it up and replanted in September and was sorry because I did. We didn't get rain again till November.

This was oats, crimson, arrowleaf and medium red clover and the red clover was all it was left in September, 2016.

 

[Canuck5]

If I had left this medium red clover alone and just overseeded more clover and maybe wheat, I'd have been much better off, that year.

 

[Canuck5]

 

[Canuck5]

I still prefer a perennial white clover where it "makes sense", because I can get it to last a good long time, but I always hedge my bets, being in middle Georgia.

 

[Canuck5]

Suitability of red Clover, for Climate and unimproved soil ph.

The one "negative" to some red clovers is they typically have a "hairy" stem, which the deer/cattle may not prefer .... but if that is all they have to eat .....

One variety of medium red clover I am trying this year is Freedom! medium red clover. Just experimenting.

https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=anr_reports