Osceola
Active Member
I loosely follow the Paul Knox food plot program planting about half with a grain/clover/radish mix and half with a turnip/radish/rape brassica mix. I understand Paul's practice was to go back and frost seed clover into his brassica areas in late winter/early spring. In reading Ed Spinazzola's book, I see he recommends mixing brassicas and clover together and says the brassicas serve as a nurse crop to help the clover establish so it can come on strong in the spring. My understanding is this is exactly what the grains do in the grain mix, serve as a nurse crop for the clover. So why can't I just mix clover in with the brassicas in the fall like Spinazzola and eliminate the need to frost seed it later like Knox? Does it have to do with just getting more yield from the brassicas by planting it alone without clover?