How to sow clover seeds
- Thread starter Frogpit
- Start date
- Location
- Cornwall.
Sow it whichever way suits you, roll or put sheep in after for a few days to tread it in.
If you normally spread at say, 12m, spread at 6m and cut the seed rate accordingly to get a good coverage with no dropping off at the edges. I would actually say 6m might even be pushing it! Depends on you machine...
Tread in or light harrow or heavy rain soon after... All will work!
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Clover is easy.
Just chuck it in the spreader along with your fert.
Job is done
Just chuck it in the spreader along with your fert.
Job is done
I hope so, I did this yesterday!
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Whats everyone else paying for white clover? I bought some the other day £10/kg.
I'm going to scratch it in with einbock tined seeder, too expensive to chuck out back of fert spreader at 24m.
I'm going to scratch it in with einbock tined seeder, too expensive to chuck out back of fert spreader at 24m.
Paid 9 quid at Wynnstay for a white clover blend this week.
- Location
- Cornwall.
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And to think you could have had for less,
And to think you could have had for less,
I did wonder... but I wanted it on that afternoon and it was only 10kilos...
- Location
- Cornwall.
Ha-ha, I'll let you off then.I did wonder... but I wanted it on that afternoon and it was only 10kilos...
10kg would be slightly better than what you paid, less than 25kg I get charged £10.00 for carriage 
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
We spin a lot of seed (driving fert trucks for a day job) and generally we cover it twice at half the rate. Go once - and then drive in between your marks.If you normally spread at say, 12m, spread at 6m and cut the seed rate accordingly to get a good coverage with no dropping off at the edges. I would actually say 6m might even be pushing it! Depends on you machine...
Tread in or light harrow or heavy rain soon after... All will work!
Helps if you're unsure of calibration/ rate as you can go up or down at the halfway mark, and "make it fit", and you don't get 'thin bits' at corners.
I was told:
Clover, 12 m, go over it twice
Brassicas, same, or 8m (one pass)
Grass, 5 metres
It soon spreads out if well managed.
I am not far off from your guidelines when I apply seeds by the sounds of things...
I remember trying to put stubble turnips on at 12m as I had been told the slug pellet spreader would do it. What a mess...
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Yeah, 8 metres would be enough.I am not far off from your guidelines when I apply seeds by the sounds of things...
I remember trying to put stubble turnips on at 12m as I had been told the slug pellet spreader would do it. What a mess...
Bear in mind we have to mix with fert to carry it, usually we coat the floor with seed, put in a third of the fert at a time and coat the heap with seed, repeat.. mixes very well, and it helps even it out by going over twice.
Often the result are superior to drilling, we would spin cereals at 12 no worries.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Waste of time and expensive seed every time i’ve Tried it, unfortunately. The only place any clover grew was where they’d spilt some round the buckets I fed it in.
Broadcasting ahead of heavy rain works a lot better, especially if you run a lot of sheep over it after.
- Location
- East Sussex
I think clover doesn’t grow very well from sheep ‘packets’ but does do well from cow ‘splats’
davidroberts30
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
im going to try that in a month or so with the umbilical and injector