So CNC, do you feel your methods helped to lessen the impact of the fall drought on your fields? Can you state you stuck to your Throw N Mow principles or had to significantly modify or abandon them? Please elaborate further than these yes and no questions.
Also, my buddy and I put our some seed and got very mixed results. Some of the clover came up and we cheated in late November and threw out some rye grass to get something green going. We never saw any thing on the field in daylight but it stayed pretty mowed down and there was much poop and tracks.
To get to my question. How do I go about continuing with the clover? Do I let things get about a foot tall and broadcast more clover and add more chicory in hopes it grows this time? Then mow things down over the seed to 3 or 4" ? Don't really want to Gly the existing clover what would be a good weed control to use?
Thanks
Yes and no.
No it didn�t help when we were in the midst of the drought itself because those conditions were just so bad that it didn�t matter what you were doing.
Yes in the fact that when the rains finally did return�..my soil �engine� was tuned up well enough that I could get a stand of cereal rye to jump right up and still put on growth. It�s not about what I did this year�.it�s about what I�ve been doing for the last 3-4 years. It�s about following good soil health principles long term in order to buffer yourself from the extremes�..from drought to erosion.
With establishing more clover, I�d just broadcast more and mow over it. Once your soil surface improves then clover will establish easily just broadcast. Adding lime really makes a difference too. I�m seeing more and more clover come into my field with each passing day and I didn�t plant any this year. I threw out a little durana last year that struggled but is now doing noticeably different as the lime has taken effect. It looks to be thriving much better now.
