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Clover?

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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For many years, I was given horse poo which I made compost out of and used it in old gravel pit to make flower beds.
Now clover is growing all over in the gravel pit. I love clover over weeds.
I'm thinking the clover may have came from Miss Molly horse poo.
Is that possible?
geo.
 
Yep. If they eat it, it comes out the other end. Oats, barley, corn, clover, wheat. If it's not rolled it will pass through whole and take root.
 
Yep, pretty common. Some cattle owners will mix clover seed in feed or mineral, and let the cattle disperse the seed around the pasture.
 
YES That's possible. Most any farmers, gardeners and many others have been aware of that for years, I sure have.

Take care n be safe

John T
 
In my fields if any organic matter is added to the soil clover will come up,apparently the seed can stay in the ground until the ground is right for it to grow.Also clover seed can be spread by the wind.
 
Don't you wish the seeds you want to grow would have some of the same characteristics as weed seeds have. They would be able to survive in the soil for years, survive drought with at least some crop, survive too cold until it warmed up, survive with only one root hair still in the ground. Weeds are designed for survival.
 
First off I hope you're not calling clover a weed.Really if you look at so called weeds like lambs quarter its right up there with alfalfa in nutritional value and far better than almost any hay grass.I think we'd be way ahead to try to breed up some of the so called weeds to turn them into useful plants instead of spending huge amounts of money trying to kill them in favor of inferior varieties.
 

Just some observations, ramblings:
Most of my weeds are flowers and I leave them in the hay, Buttercups and Dandelions to name a couple.

I am experiencing some solid clover cover in a grassy place near the house that was thin so I thought I'd fertilize it...got more grass and clover to boot.

I put out 2-4D Amine in my hay patches every once in awhile, when the broadleafs get to be a problem. One treatment lasts me for years.

I planted my summer hay crop early this year when good moisture was present, thinking the soil would remain warm enough to germinate the seed. That hasn't happened and it's drying out just when the temps are remaining high enough to germinate. Need a couple of inches of water to get it going.

Any time I roll soil, I get a new growth of something or other that I hadn't seen before and that's having owed this farm for 42 years.
 
When I was a kid I remember my dad and a neighbor talking about a field that had been in pasture for twenty years and when it was finally plowed, weeds sprouted that hadn't been there before.
 
Always heard that you shouldn't put horse manure on gardens. Horses don't develop enough heat in the digestion to kill the weed seeds. Cows do. I do know there is a nice crop of quack grass on the horse manure pile.
 
That is like Morning Glories,in my area I can go out in the middle of a 50 acre pasture field that hasn't had a Morning Glory in it for 30 years,plow it up and Morning Glory will come right up thick as can be.
 
I guess anything can be called a weed if its growing where you don't want it and can't move it. I would call clover in my garden a weed. Clover in my hay field can reseed all it wants to regardless of where the seed comes from.
 
I have a lot of current bushes around here that have been planted by birds. Currents would make excellent jelly if I could keep the deer and the robins from eating all of them. They put out a wonderful perfume when they bloom! The deer may plant them too.
 
We're happy the clover is there.
Our flowers can coexist. Nice filler and it will flower.
 
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