Feeding grass/clover seed

[HasthorpeGrange]

I heard that on a webinar the other week sow grass April or august

 

[HasthorpeGrange]

Patches of clover popping up all over now

 

[Homesy]

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Did you feed it or spread it ? I have heard of people adding it to fertiliser but never to feed before.

 

[HasthorpeGrange]

Buffer feed with Keenan all summer so just put a 1litre jug of seed in with minerals each day for as long as the bag lasted. Some would have gone in the fields when they grazed and some in the slurry store to be spread on further fields

 

[deere 6600]

Mixed clover seed with lamb creep last couple of years spent same as tonne of fertilizer easy spread def see effects

 

[Blue.]

Was someone years ago who sucked a jug full of seed up while filling the tanker,seemed a good way.

 

[Chae1]

How much are you guys paying per kg for white clover? Seed seems quite expensive for randomly applying it through creep feeder.

 

[Agrispeed]

I spread and grew clover around my dirty water tank. The irrigation pods have a fair crop of clover in them and there are circular patches appearing in the field now.

A sciencey type told me 98% of grassland seeds pass through a ruminant, so definitely worth a try.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

@Just because

 

[Great In Grass]

I spread and grew clover around my dirty water tank. The irrigation pods have a fair crop of clover in them and there are circular patches appearing in the field now.

A sciencey type told me 98% of grassland seeds pass through a ruminant, so definitely worth a try.

Did the sciency person say if the seed was dead or not? Most likely dead.

A ruminants digestive system is very intense there's very little that will go in the front end alive and still be alive when it re-appears out the back end.

 

[davidroberts30]

I tried it by mixing it in with the grub and tipping it in different spots about the field
Got nice circles of clover growing where I tipped it but not much else

 

[In the pit]

Grow clover around your slurry/dirty water lagoons ,the seeds will then fall into them and get pumped everywhere

 

[Agrispeed]

Did the sciency person say if the seed was dead or not? Most likely dead.

A ruminants digestive system is very intense there's very little that will go in the front end alive and still be alive when it re-appears out the back end.

Someone from North Wyke from memory - allegedly 98% survive.

I did try feeding clover but didn't see any results immediately, although there was one field that gained patches of red clover later, but as we spread muck in the interim, I would suspect that was more the case, although I do get good crops of clover growing in my dirty water sprinkler pods, which has to come from somewhere!

I have had good takes of almost all seed types by spinning or even throwing handfuls out in front of the cows when the ground is tacky, and they can trample it in.