Charlieyca
Active Member
So I have a 1/2 acre kill plot that last year was brassicas with crimson clover and rye mixed in. The front half canopied and smothered out the rye and clover. The back half had plenty of rye and clover left to grow and make a decent spring plot.
I planned to let this plot become a perennial white clover/chicory plot starting this fall after planting with a nurse crop of rye and red clover. I planned to do throw and mow, but there is a lot of weeds and grass going to seed in parts of it.
option 1) spray asap, spread sorghum, buckwheat and ironclay peas, and then mow. Let that crop become my fall mow down thatch.
option 2) mow, wait a week, spray, then let it go until september for fall planting
option 3) do nothing until september, leave it standing and spray, throw, and mow in september.
Goal is long term perennial white clover plot surrounded by fruit trees.
Here is the plot. Notice the front half green with weeds, back half is brown rye and dead crimson clover with very little weeds.
I planned to let this plot become a perennial white clover/chicory plot starting this fall after planting with a nurse crop of rye and red clover. I planned to do throw and mow, but there is a lot of weeds and grass going to seed in parts of it.
option 1) spray asap, spread sorghum, buckwheat and ironclay peas, and then mow. Let that crop become my fall mow down thatch.
option 2) mow, wait a week, spray, then let it go until september for fall planting
option 3) do nothing until september, leave it standing and spray, throw, and mow in september.
Goal is long term perennial white clover plot surrounded by fruit trees.
Here is the plot. Notice the front half green with weeds, back half is brown rye and dead crimson clover with very little weeds.