Food Plots Arrowleaf Clover

[Coker]

I am looking at broadcasting some arrow leaf clover in my plot this fall along with winter wheat and cereal Rye. Is there any specific brand of arrow leaf clover that is recommended?

 

[tellico4x4]

Yuchi is what I've used in the past & had plots waist high with it. It is a later maturing clover but yields a lot of forage.

 

[BSK]

Yuchi is what I've used in the past & had plots waist high with it. It is a later maturing clover but yields a lot of forage.

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I like Yuchi. It will keep growing until 4th of July before blooming out and dying. Good reseeder as well.

 

[Coker]

Will it negatively affect the Ladino clover and chicory that is already established?

 

[BSK]

Will it negatively affect the Ladino clover and chicory that is already established?

Depends on the planting density. Arrowleaf can grow VERY tall. I've had it growing out the top of a 4' exclusion cage. At a high planting density, that could shade out lower-growing plants.

An old, hard-to-see picture of one of my plots in Arrowleaf. By the time it bloomed and died, most of the plot was as tall as my truck's headlights.

 

[tellico4x4]

Will it negatively affect the Ladino clover and chicory that is already established?

Know nothing about chicory, but have had it mixed with Landino at 5#/acre & it was fine.

 

[Creek bottoms]

Is that better than balansa?

 

[BSK]

Is that better than balansa?

Just remember Arrowleaf is an annual while Balansa is a perrenial.

 

[Creek bottoms]

Just remember Arrowleaf is an annual while Balansa is a perrenial.

I didn't realize Balansa was a perennial. Would it do well with wheat in a September throw and mow?

 

[Coker]

From the looks of Arrowleaf and how much it yields, it would seem to me to be a great adder for a new/existing plot. The food and thatch, after it is mowed and after it dies in late summer, that it would provide is almost a no brainer. I might try a small amount, in the fall, mixed with my winter wheat and cereal rye.

 

[BSK]

From the looks of Arrowleaf and how much it yields, it would seem to me to be a great adder for a new/existing plot. The food and thatch, after it is mowed and after it dies in late summer, that it would provide is almost a no brainer. I might try a small amount, in the fall, mixed with my winter wheat and cereal rye.

I used to use it for that reason. I would mix (into VERY poor-soil plots) Crimson, Arrowleaf, and Wheat. Made for great fall/winter/spring plots, and a lot of biomass to mow down onto the soil. Even tried adding some Alyceclover to fill in summer growth in an attempt to make it a full-year annual plot. Alyceclover grew fine but I saw little indication the deer were eating it.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Yuchi, ladino and crimson seem to be growing quite well together. I spread some last fall with a few wheat and oats in our perennial clover fields. Then frost seeded in February some more.

 

[Popcorn]

I have been a fan of using arrowleaf as a clover blend ingredient, often adding it at 2 lbs / acre into existing ladinos. @BSK the deer populations have never allowed mine to look as beautiful as yours. It does a fairly good job of seeding back even under heavy browse. I also do this with berseem clover. Balansa in my hands is treated as an annual! It's growth rate is explosive and massive it does an awesome job of seeding back, dies and disappears in the July heat then Regeneration comes in September when it develops and spreads low then exists well till spring when it explodes again.
Watching my new plot of Q-red clover develop with promise. I really want to see it perform in the heat. I will mow it for the first time after June 15. I also planted Q-red in a blend with balansa, Crimson in an existing ladino, arrowleaf, berseem blended plot but the browse has been merciless and the existing clovers were older plots that really should be killed and rotated for a couple years so not sure they are fair tests.

 

[megalomaniac]

Just remember Arrowleaf is an annual while Balansa is a perrenial.

Balansa is an annual clover, but volunteer reseeding is heavy after it's established

 

[BSK]

Balansa is an annual clover, but volunteer reseeding is heavy after it's established

Thank you Mega. I did not know that.

 

[Creek bottoms]

Thank you Mega. I did not know that.

I can't believe that whipper snapper got one on you! LOL

 

[BSK]

I can't believe that whipper snapper got one on you! LOL

Mega gets me all the time! And I love it. I always want to present accurate info, even if someone else has to give it to me!