Durana Clover

Here’s my brief observation for those considering Durana clover. I planted Durana last fall with an oat nurse crop following a nice buckwheat crop. I broadcasted oats into the standing buckwheat and pulled my harrow behind my 4 wheeler. The buckwheat laid nicely and I then broadcasted the Durana. The oat germination was great but the Durana was less than I expected, or so I thought. I intended on frost seeding red clover in March but foot surgery kept that from happening. It’s now mid April and the Durana has really exploded. I can’t vouch for deer preference for this clover but it looks a great option for ground coverage. Hopefully the deer hammer this stuff

I think that it looks kinda scraggly until about this time of the year. Mine has done the same thing. I have one plot that was planted in 2016. It still looks good. I mix mine with wheat and add a little medium red clover and chicory to the mix. The deer like it all.

Headdigger said:

I think that it looks kinda scraggly until about this time of the year. Mine has done the same thing. I have one plot that was planted in 2016. It still looks good. I mix mine with wheat and add a little medium red clover and chicory to the mix. The deer like it all.

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I have some thin spots that probably will get filled in with grass or weeds. I’ll manage those as they arrive and overseed those spots with red clover, which is my favorite clover. Does the Durana crowd out your other species?

I had the same experience. The first year it looked pathetic. The second and third years it exploded to the best clover plot I have ever had. Last year it vanished. I couldn't find any clover anywhere. This year the plot is booming with clover again and I haven't reseeded anything in it. I don't understand that, but I'm not complaining.

Creek chub said:

I have some thin spots that probably will get filled in with grass or weeds. I’ll manage those as they arrive and overseed those spots with red clover, which is my favorite clover. Does the Durana crowd out your other species?

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Where I am in middle Georgia, it crowds out my chicory in a couple of years. It does a pretty good job of taking over and I now manage it for grasses. It self seeds it's self too, where I kill the grass. This is going into it's 11th year.

Creek chub said:

I have some thin spots that probably will get filled in with grass or weeds. I’ll manage those as they arrive and overseed those spots with red clover, which is my favorite clover. Does the Durana crowd out your other species?

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I think that it does the first year, after that the red clover and chicory hold their own.

FarmerD said:

Where I am in middle Georgia, it crowds out my chicory in a couple of years. It does a pretty good job of taking over and I now manage it for grasses. It self seeds it's self too, where I kill the grass. This is going into it's 11th year.

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Nice clover carpet you got there! That’s my goal

Thanks! I do like Durana, but I have been planting Advantage Ladino clover as well, in the last couple of years. It's a little taller, prefers 6.5 ph, and I will be planting more. It's part of the original 3 clover blend in Imperial Whitetail Institutes clover.

FarmerD said:

Thanks! I do like Durana, but I have been planting Advantage Ladino clover as well, in the last couple of years. It's a little taller, prefers 6.5 ph, and I will be planting more. It's part of the original 3 clover blend in Imperial Whitetail Institutes clover.

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I like imperial whitetail institute clover a lot. I have a half acre plot that the deer hammer. It going on 3 years old. I overseed each fall and it’s doing great