Too late to spray my clover for weeds?

[giannid]

So I've got a relatively new food plot of mixed clovers, mostly Ladino. I'd say last year was it's first good year as it was planted the previous fall. Never sprayed it until early this spring and I hit it with some Imazethapyr 2sl. Did a decent job but I'm starting to see some weeds come through it. Did a real good job on the grasses but still have some broadleaves coming up. Seems like a lot of the weeds are going to seed now. I did cut it one time about a month ago.

For some reason the clover started to flower at a pretty short length this year. Still not real tall and we're going through a little bit of a drought here in Northeast Ohio. Was thinking about hitting it with some Butyrac 200 and Clethodim and then mow it in a month or so. Want to overseed it this fall with some more clover and winter rye doing a throw and mow so I figure I need to spray soon if I'm going to.

Thoughts?

 

[RGrizzzz]

I was going to post a similar question, but with the goal of only targeting nutsedge. Nutsedge seems to germinate when it gets hot and dry. I'd consider a light dose of glyphosate, but with the stress from the heat and dry weather, I'm worried about killing the clover. It did get mowed last week, high/above clover. Has anyone used Sedgehammer in clover for spot treatments?

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Side question: I haven't been able to upload pictures for weeks. Is that a known issue?

 

[BoneCrusher20]

if you can find some weather stretch for week of that lower to mid 70s for high anytime soon i would spray. i'm of the field of thought in late spring after first flush of weeds has started even if its not bad i spray anyway and then i spray once more in early august and then mow 2 weeks after my august spray. i do not mow in spring/summer, my own personal opinion mowing does very little to control weeds and can injure clover especially if going through dry spell/heat of summer. Clover is like your cool season grasses it does not favor the heat of summer so if you have some weeds growing up now i could see mowing very high above the clover line or if can find some temps that are not too overly bearing can try light spraying.

 

[giannid]

Wondering if I should mow first, wait a week, then spray or spray and mow in a few weeks.

 

[Brian]

I was going to post a similar question, but with the goal of only targeting nutsedge. Nutsedge seems to germinate when it gets hot and dry. I'd consider a light dose of glyphosate, but with the stress from the heat and dry weather, I'm worried about killing the clover.

I have a nutsedge problem in one of my plots and learned the hard way that gly just top kills nutsedge. I spot sprayed with a herbicide called SedgeHammer earlier this summer and took it out. SedgeHammer is sort of expensive but worth it - 2 packs in two gallons of water cleaned up a 1/2 acre plot that was badly infested with nutsedge.

 

[RGrizzzz]

I have a nutsedge problem in one of my plots and learned the hard way that gly just top kills nutsedge. I spot sprayed with a herbicide called SedgeHammer earlier this summer and took it out. SedgeHammer is sort of expensive but worth it - 2 packs in two gallons of water cleaned up a 1/2 acre plot that was badly infested with nutsedge.

Did it bother the clover?

 

[Brian]

No, the sedgehammer didn't bother the clover at all. I didn't think it bothered the nutsedge either at first - it works slowly.

 

[RGrizzzz]

No, the sedgehammer didn't bother the clover at all. I didn't think it bothered the nutsedge either at first - it works slowly.

I spray it in my lawn. It does kill slowly!

 

[dogghr]

OP put an exclusion cage on that plot if you don’t have one and I bet that clover is more short from browse than drought.


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