On May 23, 12:47Â*am, wrote:
wrote:
On May 22, 6:10�pm, wrote:
What I like to know is how to make the field overcome in clover,
whether letting it
go to seed favors the clover, or am I best to mow it.

There are different types of clover; however generally speaking,
cutting about 6 inches above the ground favors clover at the
detriment of grass. Â*With an annual clover it is best to stop mowing
once the seed pods start to form so your clover will reseed.

Small grains and even some vegetables can be grown in a
field of clover without ploughing. Â*The grains, barley, wheat, etc.
will just grow through the cover of clover.

Dieter

Thanks for the advice. I never realized that a crop can grow right
through
a clover cover. That sounds like the most perfect form of agriculture
where
the clover stops erosion, stops ploughing and adds fertilizer to the
crop.

Yes, I would think that is the maximum agriculture. To gain a field in
clover
and then plant a crop. Never ploughing and never needing to fertilize.

About the only thing to do is to mow between the crop rows.

I hate to mow through my clover which is almost knee deep.

Dieter, a further question. Can you recommend a species of clover
which is
the most tough and long lasting of the clovers? Is it a white clover?
What is
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The last year I experiment with bersem clover in my field and in my
clay land find that if is the first time work best if you plow the
land in such way become aerate and inoculate the seed to get nitrogen
from the air that breath the plant. I expect you not have pressure of
grass of other weed that can compete with this seed and win. And you
must expect one rain period that can maintain wet the superficies of
the land for more of tree days .

(Excuse my English)
Javier H. Davila

G.G. N.L. Mexico