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Deer are not touching crimson clover plot. I thought they would love something green now.
 
What are they eating? I have a neighbor with a clover plot and never find any in the deer I kill. Always just full of acorns.
 
I don't see many deer eating our crimson. We typically just plant it to add nitrogen to the soil and help improve the soil overall. It does have some good pollination benefits in the spring with all the bugs and bees. The turkeys will be in there in the spring, as they like it a lot.
 
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They are hitting my crimson clover in my blend of winter wheat and tiller radish. My plot is only about an inch tall now. Hopefully this warm weather will kick the plot back to growing.
 
I planted crimson clover over winter wheat plots during our snow storm. The "Frost" seeding method worked great and my plots are now showing beautiful red flower heads. As mentioned above, the deer aren't eating the crimson clover, but I've seen a bunch of rabbits and turkey in the plots. Adding nitrogen and more organic matter is a huge benefit.
 
You can plant crimson any time. Just realize it will mature, flower and die back at some point during the summer if unmowed. If mowed once a month, it may not flower and can last all summer.
 
TNlandowner said:
I planted crimson clover over winter wheat plots during our snow storm. The "Frost" seeding method worked great and my plots are now showing beautiful red flower heads. As mentioned above, the deer aren't eating the crimson clover, but I've seen a bunch of rabbits and turkey in the plots. Adding nitrogen and more organic matter is a huge benefit.
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Yep - I don't see deer eating much of it. I do see a lot of turkeys and bugs/pollinators in it. Agree 100% on the nitrogen and organic matter as a huge benefit.
 
I hesitate adding nitrogen to nitrogen fixing legumes because that's exactly what invasive grasses need!
 
Once spring green-up starts, deer usage of crimson clover really drops off. But if you plant a second crop for summer, or maintain your clover so it doesn't bloom, deer will be back on it by June.
 
Our plots in south MS are in full bloom with crimson clover (and wheat and oats going to seed). Deer havent touched them in 3 weeks, as our native browse of greenbrier, blackberry, and wild grape are fully leaved out. That's fine, as the plots are a haven for insects and the birds and reptiles attracted to them. I shared a comfortable spot next to a fence lizard at the edge of one of our plots turkey hunting this afternoon, and a bobwhite was sitting on a nest in the plot not 10 yards away.

Crimson clover has SO many benefits to wildlife besides whitetail as well as soil quality, that it's (or another annual clover variant) is always worth planting.
 
megalomaniac said:
Crimson clover has SO many benefits to wildlife besides whitetail as well as soil quality, that it's (or another annual clover variant) is always worth planting.
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If someone has the time, equipment and knowledge to keep perennial clovers going and free of competition, some of those perennials are hard to beat. But for ease of maintenance and quality forage, especially in poorer soils, crimson is tops on my list.
 
Crimson is hard to bet!!!! Deer, turkeys and crows in my area will NOT allow hardly any corn or beans to grow in 1 to 3 acre plots. I usually zero till corn when crimson blooms are just starting to turn brown.
 

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