Is it too late to sow clover

[Northeastfarmer]

Well Is it? In the northern hemisphere not you southerners sat on the equator

 

[HarryB97]

Always sow our grass & clover around the end of September and never have an issue. With all the warmth in the soil from the last two years and this rain forecast it'll soon get up and grow!

 

[michael N123]

If you sowed it 2 week ago it would of had plenty heat to get going

It’s going to get colder but I think you should be fine

 

[Northeastfarmer]

If you sowed it 2 week ago it would of had plenty heat to get going

It’s going to get colder but I think you should be fine

I only bought it yesterday, it was 21 degrees yesterday....I didn’t know wether to sow today or in the spring

 

[neilo]

I only bought it yesterday, it was 21 degrees yesterday....I didn’t know wether to sow today or in the spring

One things for sure, it won’t grow in the bag.

Not ideal timing, but better than not sowing it imo.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Get ít in the ground !

 

[Lazy Eric]

Personally I think it’s too late for decent clover establishment,maybe ok for PRG but clover, not so sure.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

The seed I put in midwinter during the frosts is level-pegging with the clover sown in the autumn, both struck pretty well but neither really got much past cotyledon stage until a month ago.
What's your cover like now?
If you have reasonable cover then it should insulate the seedlings, if it's quite low then maybe wait?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

The seed I put in midwinter during the frosts is level-pegging with the clover sown in the autumn, both struck pretty well but neither really got much past cotyledon stage until a month ago.
What's your cover like now?
If you have reasonable cover then it should insulate the seedlings, if it's quite low then maybe wait?

The field I’m wanting to do was a field that was sown with spring barley and undersown with a 3/4 year grass ley with no clover in

It looks like this after it’s been combined...

 

[som farmer]

down south, I reckon the cut off date for sowing grass, 5 oct, not sure how I reached that date, would be to do with how ley has 'taken'. and I don't like sowing until sept, the nights being longer, and the dews heavier, spring sown leys I hate, very few in the last 30 years have matched autumn sown, the 1 exception we put in a drought resistant mix, spr 2018, came on well, bit thin but as we had a drought last year, very well, grazed it x2 this year, got ahead of the cows, took a cut of silage, and nothing, dead, we are reseeding it now, with another drought resistant ley !

 

[Frodo2]

If it's just the clover would you not be better to wait. If you stitch it in now, not only will it have cooler weather, but it is competing with well established grass. You are going to have grass in spring anyway.

That said, did the seed cost a lot? If not what you got to loose?

 

[Tarw Coch]

This was sown about 10th October last year, there should be some grass in there somewhere ?
Photo taken yesterday.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

If it's just the clover would you not be better to wait. If you stitch it in now, not only will it have cooler weather, but it is competing with well established grass. You are going to have grass in spring anyway.

That said, did the seed cost a lot? If not what you got to loose?

I’d lose £320

 

[Northeastfarmer]

This was sown about 10th October last year, there should be some grass in there somewhere ?
Photo taken yesterday.

What rate did you sow that at?!

 

[multi power]

The field I’m wanting to do was a field that was sown with spring barley and undersown with a 3/4 year grass ley with no clover in

It looks like this after it’s been combined...

You should have sowed the clover when you sowed the grass

 

[Northeastfarmer]

You should have sowed the clover when you sowed the grass

Wasn’t sure about it when it was an undersow

 

[Frodo2]

I’d lose £320

Over how many acres and do you have 320 to lose? You only need save 1tonne of nitrogen and jobs a good one.

If you have the seed I would definately do a trial plot. And to be honest probably just keep going.

 

[Tarw Coch]

What rate did you sow that at?!

Don’t know, it was barrenbrug grass seed, meant to go in 12 months previous but it was too wet so sat in the bag in the shed for a year.
IIRC it would have been sown at 14kg(a bag)/acre but not sure how much clover would have been in it, I’m not even convinced that I’d ordered the seed with clover, I didn’t think I had.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Over how many acres and do you have 320 to lose? You only need save 1tonne of nitrogen and jobs a good one.

If you have the seed I would definately do a trial plot. And to be honest probably just keep going.

Over 40

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Don’t know, it was barrenbrug grass seed, meant to go in 12 months previous but it was too wet so sat in the bag in the shed for a year.
IIRC it would have been sown at 14kg(a bag)/acre but not sure how much clover would have been in it, I’m not even convinced that I’d ordered the seed with clover, I didn’t think I had.

I was told to sow clover at 1/kg an acre when sowing separate