Couple of perennial clover questions

[duckman88]

This fall we planted one of our shooting lanes with whitetail institute imperial clover. We fertilized according to the specifications prior to planting. Clover has come in quite well but there are a couple of areas that are a little thin. We really want to develop a good stand of clover in this plot and maintain it for as many years as we can. That being said, here are my questions:

1) It currently looks healthy, but, when should we fertilize again? And when we do fertilize should we use granular or a water soluble (such as biologic mean green)?

2) Is it too late to try and just top sow some additional imperial clover in the thin spots?

Thanks!

[TheVisorGuy]

Frost seed it this winter. There are tons of videos on frost seeding clover. This spring when it blooms mow it just low enough to take the blooms off and it should fill in

[Sportin' Woodies]

Good advice. Keep it mowed all summer then disc it heavily and plant turnips and stop fucking with finicky drought intolerant clover.

[Catdaddy]

Generally speaking, white clover doesn't cover well until March after being planting in the fall......the first year.

Also planting the west side of a field or plot will help during the summer. Clover hates afternoon sun in July and August.

[wiz18]

Lime. Pull a soil sample and lime to it. If you have a good stand of clover now mowing the tops will seed for you and thicken the plot filling in the gaps. Use granular 0-25-25 fertilizer, Clover makes its own nitrogen.

[duckman88]

Thanks! Yea it is planted in the most shaded plot that we have and pH is good, can't remember the exact number but it was around 6.5 prior to planting. The main rules with mowing/fertilizer are to not do either when the clover is wet or during a drought period correct?

[nitro5x6's]

Good advice in this thread. ( including the turnip idea) the deer are currently murdering our turnip plots.