I am going to plant a clover patch in the next few days but I don't want to spray anything to kill the grass that is there currently. I am going to till it and the rake and roll it. Will that be enough to start a good plot for mainly red and a little white clover? All that is growing now is some longer grass. The spot will get good sunlight and is nice and moist. What do you all think? Thanks.
I'm confused, you don't want to use roundup or you don't want to use fertilizer? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I think you will be making a mistake if you really want a clover plot after all your work. Spray the grass now with Round-up, wait a couple weeks and spray it again, wait another week or two and then till it up. The competition will surely be won by the grass. I used to try to half-a$$ it myself and found I just wasted money. Also, make sure you do a soil sample. It will tell you what you need to even get the clover to grow.
Roundup is cheap. Killing grass in a clover plot will be a lot more expensive. I think the chemical is Clethodim and it's pricy. I'd kill the grass first, but you can do it the way you are proposing to, you will just end up with more grass in it. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk
Yea I meant to say no roundup. However I tried to till before killing the grass and that failed so I will spray round up today. The area is only 500yards squared so it's not all that big but it would have been impossible to till without killing the grass. Anyway here is a picture after we mowed the grass.
It's amazing how easy the ground breaks up after two good applications of round-up. The first year I tried doing a plot I had the neighbor come over with his disc to work the ground over. He really only made a bunch of marks here and there after many passes. He told me then he wished he knew I hadn't sprayed it as he would have. The next year it was like cutting butter with a hot knife. Now we have a tiller and it makes work sooo much easier.
Clethodim -arrow-select are grass killers one can buy 1 gallon for $60-$70 a gallon or $15-17.50 / acre
