Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover

The plot is a long narrow strip of about an acre. I like long narrow strips, that way I can watch the deer move from strip to strip, and it makes the tractor work easier with less turning around. You have a sharp eye for weeds, you probably looked at “Where’s Waldo” books when you were a youngster, those weeds that you see are at the end of the field where I stood to take the picture, through the middle it's relatively clean. I know I've had a marestail problem in the past by doing too many no-till soybean plantings in a row without addressing them, I discovered that you can't ignore marestail or it will take over your entire property.
Well, to only have one in a picture, I think you've done well getting it back under control.
 
Anyone out there tried planting hubam clover? I got 25lbs this year, to see how it does.
 
Anyone out there tried planting hubam clover? I got 25lbs this year, to see how it does.
That's a planting that's used a lot for a honeybee food source. My dad used to have honeybees, and clovers like this one were a major source of nectar for honey. Show us some pics of how it's doing for you!
 
Anyone out there tried planting hubam clover? I got 25lbs this year, to see how it does.
I've planted hubam quite a bit in Mexico. Its about the only clover that works there. Good reseeder but deer preference is weak. They will eat it if not much is available but I do not find it or yellow clover very attractive though as mentioned bees like it
 
It just went down today. Goal is soil building, insect attraction for turkey and attraction for deer, probably in that order.
 
IMO, the stuff is evil.
On our vacation last summer, we saw literally thousands of square miles of the crap from Iowa to Montana. I had a thread about it somewhere. Mono culture as far as the eye could see.
 
IMO, the stuff is evil.
On our vacation last summer, we saw literally thousands of square miles of the crap from Iowa to Montana. I had a thread about it somewhere. Mono culture as far as the eye could see.
I planted this yellow Blossom sweet clover in a mix with ladino clover as an experiment (is guess I get bored with the mundane) and it was the easiest stuff to get rid of. The sweet clover shot up over the ladino in early summer, I mowed it before it could go into seed, and the ladino choked it out. There was no sweet clover left by the third year. It's a good soil builder and bee food but has limited value for deer food.
 
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