Earlier didn't work for us this year. Actually started plot work in late July in order to be ready whenever conditions were right to plant. Got over 5" of rain in August, but since I've been burned so many times by those type of late summer rains, I held off. Lost a lot of clover last year due to drought & freeze, plus some was at end of life cycle anyway. Wound up with 40 plots to plant & planned to do them in "cycles" of 10-15 each. Definitely didn't work out and now have 27 planted just laying in dirt waiting.
So tired of fooling with it this year that I'm going to go ahead and plant the remaining 13 and be done with it. It'll be whatever it's gonna be.... Did get my pitiful looking 12 remaining clover plots fertilized in front of this last small rain so guess that's a plus. Not even sure I'm going to spend the money to fertilize all this newly planted stuff.... plan was to see what kind of germination & stand I got then fertilize accordingly. Glad we've got acorns for a change.