Sheep sowing clover

erada

Pretty random question but an interesting theory. We all know the benefits of clover but imagine it's late summer, if you sprinkled some clover seeds on top of some meal that you were feeding to store lambs / cull ewes, would it germinate?

wrangler

erada wrote: »

Pretty random question but an interesting theory. We all know the benefits of clover but imagine it's late summer, if you sprinkled some clover seeds on top of some meal that you were feeding to store lambs / cull ewes, would it germinate?

It seems to work well with nettles anyway,
Sheep seem to successfully plant nettles out in the fields from the ditches using that method

Buford T. Justice XIX

erada wrote: »

Pretty random question but an interesting theory. We all know the benefits of clover but imagine it's late summer, if you sprinkled some clover seeds on top of some meal that you were feeding to store lambs / cull ewes, would it germinate?

It would probably germinate but I doubt it would last for long with competition from the grass already there and established.

And then temperatures will be dropping before long and the clover will just be surviving while the grass is still growing and maybe overshadowing it.

Maybe earlier in the year and it might have a better chance but you would want to be cutting back on N to the grass to give the clover a chance of growing and grazing every 12 or 14 days to give a chance of light to reach the clover.

Nekarsulm

Be as handy to throw a bag or two into a wag-tail shower and spin around the field any day now.
Site on slurry on top and see how it goes.

Water John

Don't have sheep but it's often mentioned as a way of, increasing white clover in the sward. Maybe a bit later in the year when soil is warm.