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IIRC, the "red" clover means that the blossoms are reddish in color. Call any local seed dealer that sells corn/beans to farmers and I'll bet they can order some for you. I bought a 50# bag of Dutch White Clover, and it was $162.50 but I had to run 60 miles one way to pick it up.
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Red clover is a biannual or shot lived perennial clover and is usually planted in the spring but can be fall planted... Crimson clover is winter annual, planted in the fall and matures by late spring. I would bet, if the forester wants you to make a fall planting for soil building purposes, it is crimson clover you want, not red clover. I buy a lot of my food plot seeds here: crimson cloverCrimson clover tolerates poor soil conditions and is very hardy! Plus it's cheap compared to most other clovers. If the soil is lowland and is usually a bit on the wet side, I'd plant alsike clover.
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When I planted my trees I mowed for a few years until they got a good start. One heck of a job mowing around 5 1/2 acres trees. Then the time finally come when I wanted to quit mowing but keep weeds down. My farmer said to plant alsike clover, I did but that didn't begin to stop the weeds. Then I planted Bison grass and that helped but I ended up spot spraying every year, usually three times a year. I have started spraying already this year. Canadian thistles are a pest but a spraying usually knocks them down for the year but the hard one to control for me is wild carrots. I use Amine 400 2,4-D weed killer that doesn't hurt the grasses. It is cheap at $18 a gal. at the farm stores. I fill a Mott’s applesauce bottle 1/2 full for 15 gallons of water.
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This is what my bison grass looks like this morning. This area hasn't been spot sprayed and so far the weeds are being kept down by the grass, but some will show up later. 15 years ago this was part of a soybean/corn field
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Never heard of bison grass
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Never heard of Bison grass either.
I'll double check with the forester on the red clover. All I remember is him saying to get rid of the fescue and new tree's like a lot of nirogen so plant red clover. Thanks for all the input guys.
"If you aim at nothing you'll hit it every time" Zig Ziglar
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When I bought Bison grass years ago it was a cross between Buffalo grass and something else, I don't remember what now. A few months ago when I mentioned it, I did a search on the web and couldn't find it. It is a clump grass and over time it filled in even where it wasn't planted that well.
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