Question about Red Clover

[randallk]

Red Clover is said to last two years. Is the seedling year counted as year one?

 

[old]

I can not say if the seeding year counts for sure or not but I would think it would. That said I have red clover and it has been there for a decade or more. But I also try to do my hay just as the red clover is flowering so as to reseed its self

 

[flying belgian]

How do you get red clover to dry before it molds? Or is it just because I am to far north? I'm in so. Mn.

 

[old]

I have never had any trouble getting it to dry here in Missouri but we do have some hot dry summers. Years ago I used a sickle mower and it took 2 or 3 days to dry but now I use a NH460 moco and that has help speed things up a good bit.

 

[Eric in IL]

Surprised the seed is mature enough to germinate if you cut it when flowering. You are lucky OLD, in Illinois we are fortunate to get more than two seasons from clover. Just last year my neighbor had a beautiful first cutting and virtually none of the clover regrew. Seems the weather is a BIG player in the duration of a decent stand here. Ten years here is not even worth dreaming about.

 

[old]

Well here when it is flowering or should I say when I see it flowering I watch it and hope the weather holds up and if things go right I cut it when I see some of the flowers turning brown so that some get planted so then more clover

 

[Sid]

Time starts from when it come up until it is gone. Red clover seed can lay around a long time before it comes up. I scattered some seed one year and got a good stand in one feild and nothing in the other. Three years later the second feild had a good stand come up in the grass. By scattering seed every year I can keep a descent to good stand every year.

 

[stan jefferies]

must be a northern thing, It dries fine in Ohio. Put it in a swath give it 3 days (include cut date) rake it 10am 4th day (of baling) and by mid afternoon its a nice blue green bale of hay you cant sell for a profit anymore.