Food Plots Crimson clover

[BSK]

Personally, I've never seen Crimson Clover grow this tall. It is mixed with wheat.

 

[BSK]

And you can certainly see how Crimson Clover got its name!

I'm hoping I will be able to mow this down for natural reseeding in about a month.

 

[CATCHDAWG]

Man that looks great!

 

[DoubleRidge]

Nice! Great looking plots!

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Looks great! Ours are looking the same. The bees were swarming. You should have just as good reseeding as we saw last year

 

[@fulldraw]

Yep. Mine grew too tall. The turkeys don't like this height apparently. They quit coming to it.

This is my second plot (posted thread on first plot). It was cleared in August and planted in September. Very happy with the results.

 

[Popcorn]

Personally, I've never seen Crimson Clover grow this tall. It is mixed with wheat.

Congratulations!
That looks great

 

[Popcorn]

I had to go mow some of my balansa due to it being so deep and thick the turkeys were going around it.

 

[@fulldraw]

I had to go mow some of my balansa due to it being so deep and thick the turkeys were going around it.

Since I'm going to put a summer plot in mine I'm seriously thinking about mowing it this week to entice turkeys to come back.

 

[BSK]

I had to go mow some of my balansa due to it being so deep and thick the turkeys were going around it.

Yup, too tall for the turkey. Unfortunately, I've got to let mine go now that it has bloomed. Need that free seed!

 

[TNTreeman]

That's beautiful.

 

[Hillbilly Hunter]

Impressive!

 

[megalomaniac]

Looks great guys! Mine has done really well this spring as well. Mostly Balansa, with a little crimson mixed in. Wheat was spotty due to drought last fall, clover stunted as well, but enough established to fill in a lot or bare spots. Not a drop of fertilizer at time of fall planting.

 

[BSK]

Looks great guys! Mine has done really well this spring as well. Mostly Balansa, with a little crimson mixed in. Wheat was spotty due to drought last fall, clover stunted as well, but enough established to fill in a lot or bare spots. Not a drop of fertilizer at time of fall planting.

Is that one of the plots you will drill in summer crops, or do you leave that plot in clover all year?

 

[megalomaniac]

It will get bushhoged in 3w, spray a week later, then drill for summer.

I'm experimenting this year... planting the whole 8 ac in beans, millet, sorgham as usual, but this fall I'm going to plant lanes and microplots and leave the rest standing in the tall sorgham so deer HAVE to wander throughout it to check for does. Maybe a failure, but I'm always experimenting!

 

[BSK]

It will get bushhoged in 3w, spray a week later, then drill for summer.

I'm experimenting this year... planting the whole 8 ac in beans, millet, sorgham as usual, but this fall I'm going to plant lanes and microplots and leave the rest standing in the tall sorgham so deer HAVE to wander throughout it to check for does. Maybe a failure, but I'm always experimenting!

Experimentation is the only way to learn.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Just one spot of many. It's well above my knees

 

[rem270]

I mowed mine down around end of March so it wouldn't be too tall for the turkeys. It's already thickened up pretty good and probably too tall for the turkeys liking but I don't want to mow it again. That being said, what can I spray on it to kill the grass out of it but not hurt the clover? I know I've seen it somewhere before but didn't go to digging for it.

 

[JAD]

I mowed mine down around end of March so it wouldn't be too tall for the turkeys. It's already thickened up pretty good and probably too tall for the turkeys liking but I don't want to mow it again. That being said, what can I spray on it to kill the grass out of it but not hurt the clover? I know I've seen it somewhere before but didn't go to digging for it.

Clethodim for the grass. Won't hurt the clover.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Clethodim for the grass. Won't hurt the clover.

Yep - @rem270 clethodim for grass, butyrac for broadleaf weeds.