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Red Clover O/T

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Ted

06-14-2004 09:14:43




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Last year on a field I had let go for a year, grew Red Clover very thick on its own. I gladly cut it and bailed it and now this year nothing. I understand the seed probably blew there from some where but why did't it come back this year.
I am very curious.
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jim

06-14-2004 15:12:49




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 Re: Red Clover O/T in reply to Ted, 06-14-2004 09:14:43  
Ted - Sounds as if you had a self-catch of what we call Big Red or Mammoth Red. Big Red is usually sown as a plow-down crop in order to enrich the soil and is only viable for one year. It would appear the the original crop went to seed and hence you got a crop of hay that way. Because you harvested the crop as hay, there would be no seed for this year. The other most common red clover is called double cut ,or little red ,with the first crop of the year taken as hay and the second cut that year is harvested as seed, thus the "double cut".

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Ted

06-15-2004 04:47:54




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 Re: Re: Red Clover O/T in reply to jim, 06-14-2004 15:12:49  
Jim, Thank you for the input, I lucked out last year it was a really nice crop and I was looking foward to it this year.



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Brian G. NY

06-15-2004 06:08:31




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 Re: Re: Re: Red Clover O/T in reply to Ted, 06-15-2004 04:47:54  
We had over 8" of rain in May here in upstate NY and I have the most luscious crop of big red clover on the banks of my driveway where the clay is normally so hard you can't get anything to grow. There hasn't been any clover planted anywhere near here in years so I don't know where it all comes from. The second year after clearing the lot for my house, one section came in real heavy with the little white clover which I thought made a real nice lawn; the next year it was all gone.

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