Organic Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover
Growing as an annual or biennial and reaching 2-7 feet high when mature, this clover is known to work very well as a fertilizer. With its high biomass and long roots that pull nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus to the surface, you can increase yields in crops like corn compared with other common fertilizers.
This Sweet Clover has higher biomass production in warm weather than any other, including alfalfa. When planted in spring, you can harvest from 3,000 to 3,500 lbs/acre. In its second year, this cultivar reaches its maximum potential, and you can harvest an additional 4,500 to 5,500 lbs/acre. Plants may reach 7 feet, with a taproot penetrating 1 foot, helping aerate your soil and preparing it for vegetable or cereal crops.
As a source of Nitrogen, Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover was a traditional green manure crop in the Midwest before the now-overused nitrogen fertilizers became available. Producing around 100 lbs of Nitrogen per acre in a season, its popularity is easy to understand. With good fertility and rainfall, it has been shown to achieve nitrogen levels as high as 290 lbs per acre.
Self-reseeding, thus useful to be grown on near-barren slopes, mining spoils, soils with low fertility, and along "rights of way". Can survive with as little as 6 inches of rainfall a year and at altitudes ranging from sea level to 4,000 feet.
Also popular with Bees, birds, and many other foragers. Planting this clover supports your local ecosystem by providing your Livestock with grazing or hay, giving bees and pollinators something to eat, and offering seed and stems for birds to feed on and build with. There have been yields of honey as high as 200 lbs per colony, and 2,000 to 6,000 pounds of hay production per acre.
Seed production fields utilizing natural pollinators yield between 50 and 100 pounds of seed per acre, while fields using one to two colonies of honey bees yield up to 700 pounds of seed per acre. Seeds can even be viable for up to 30 years!
Seeding rate: ~1/2 lb per 1,000 square ft. 3-9 lb/acre -drilled. 5-14 lb/acre -broadcast. Very productive, biennial clover for plowdown.
NOTE: Yellow clover self-seeds readily - plant it where spreading is welcome.
- Good scavenger of P, K, and other nutrients
- Grows on clay pan soils or on sand
- Tolerates low fertility and wet conditions
- Biennial and should not bloom during the seedling year, but will flower, set seed, and die the following year
- 1 oz - Approximately 15,625 Seeds
- 1 lb - Approximately 250,000 Seeds
- 5 lb - Approximately 1,250,000 Seeds
- 1 lb - Approximately 6,250,000 Seeds
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