Buy Organic Clover
Uses: Hay, chop, cover crop or forage.
Like all our other small grains and seeds in general, we can't gurantee a steady supply of clover all year long this year so, if you're thinking of getting some, do it now. We may not have any left if you come back later.
Seed Type
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Wholesale 802-385-1096
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50lbs. Bag
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Organic Medium Red Clover (Certified Organic OCIA)
An early flowering type which produces two to three hay crops per year, and has biennial or short lived perennial habit.
There are two general types of red clover grown in Ontario: double-cut or "medium" red clover and single-cut or "mammoth" red clover. Double -cut will flower in the seeding year, with vigorous regrowth after cutting. Single-cut is slower growing and matures about 2 weeks later thatn double-cut. Single cut does not flower in the seeding year or after the first cut in succeeding years.
Plant at 6 - 10 lbs./acre
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An improved Medium Red clover whose main advntage is yield. Persists 3-4 years, has very good disease resistance, and flowers a little earlier than Arlington. Yielded 13% more than Marathon and 16% more than Arlington in U of Wis. trials.
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Red Clover can be seeded in pure stands or with timothy for hay or silage. It is more easily established in pasture renovation than either alfalfa or trefoil. red clover cover crop has several benefits, including: contributing up to 120 pounds of soil nitrogen for the following crop rotation, reducing soil erosion and surface water pollution, increasing soil organic matter, improving soil tilth and increasing water holding capacities, reducing grass and broadleaf weed pressure, and serving as a forage and/or pasture species.
Common medium red clover is good for one year of meadow while Arlington and Marathon will persist for up to 3 years with good snow cover.
Clovers are best cut for hay when in full bloom...here and there a head already turned brown. Cut any earlier and it is difficult to cure and loses feed value. Cut any later and it loses it palatability.
Drill or broadcast 1/4" to 1/2" deep 12 to 15 lbs. per acre. In a mixture, seed 2 to 4 lbs. per acre.
Seed late winter to August 10
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Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover
Canadian Certified Organic
Biennial Clover for plowdown. Melilotus officinalis This cool-season biennial is good for mining insoluble minerals like potassium and phosphorus from the lower levels of the soil and bringing them to the surface. Its long tap root also helps loosen hard, packed soils. A vigorous grower, it will fix up to 125 pounds of nitrogen per acre and, *with adequate moisture, will grow to heights of 6 feet, providing tons of organic matter to your soil. Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover has demonstrated good drought tolerance, especially when planted early, just after your last frost. Sow 1 pound per 1000 square feet.
*In poor soils it will stay very short. You find it growing along road sides in the sand and gravel. It's a pioneer and can grow in a wide range of soils and climate conditions.
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White Clovers
White clover can be cut or grazed. It lasts longer than red clover although it is lower yielding. Its lower growth habit makes it suited to grazing and this is its main use The aim is to produce a sward which contains 30-50% white clover and the right balance of clover to grass throughout the year. White clover leys are equally suitable for cows or sheep.
Where possible allow an interval of about 35 days between defoliation. This gap allows this legume to perform. Most of its nitrogen is fixed during the later stages of growth and therefore early defoliation restricts nitrogen fixation. Also we have encountered less bloat on mature swards. Dry matter yields of white clover leys are in the range of 10-13 t/ha. Without using any applied nitrogen, high clover leys can achieve the same production as conventional systems.
Sowing & Establishment
Sow between March and September. White clover seeds are small and will benefit from shallow sowing. A very firm seed bed is required and the clover must be sown on the surface. (You should be able to ride a bicycle across the field before sowing!) Rolling at least once after sowing is strongly recommended. If undersowing do not choose a thick crop. This will result in failure.
A thinly sown spring cereal is ideal. The seeds are best sown by broadcasting using a spinner. If sowing in the autumn, aim to sow by mid September.
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Organic Alsike Clover
Very important crop for honey production.
A perennial clover, tolerant of acid and base-reacting soils. Performs well in wet meadows where other legumes won't. It is finer than medium red, more fragrant, lower yielding with a very fine seed. Plant in early spring or late fall in cooler climates.
*Used primarily in mixtures at 1 - 3 lbs. per acre Use double that or more if planting alone but it does best in mized stands.
Alsike clover tillers profusely from the crown, with stems at least as long or longer than those of red clover but more slender and prostrate. Stems and leaves are smooth, hands are somewhat smaller than red clover and the flowers are pink or white.
Inclusion of timothy with alsike is highly desirable since the clover is likely to lodge badly and make curing difficult. Alsike usually produces only one crop of hay. Establishment is often possible on poorly drained and overflow land.
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All of our Cover Crops and Grains are available by the pallet & tonage when stock is available.
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Call 1.877.213.3828
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Certified seed is seed of a known variety produced under strict seed certification standards to maintain varietal purity. Seed lots must also meet specified standards for other crops, inert matter, weed seeds, and germination. Certified seed is also free of prohibited noxious weed seeds. All certified seed must pass field inspection, be conditioned by an approved seed conditioning plant, and then be sampled and pass laboratory testing before it can be sold as certified seed.
Classes of Certified Seed
There are four classes (generations) of certified seed. In order of genetic purity they are breeder, foundation, registered and certified seed.
Breeder seed is directly controlled by the originating plant breeder, sponsoring institution or firm which supplies the initial source and recurring increases of foundation seed. There are no certification standards for breeder seed.
Foundation seed is produced from breeder's seed or foundation seed produced under the control of the originator or sponsoring institution or licensee. Foundation seed is controlled by the originating plant owner or licensee.
Registered seed is produced from foundation or other approved seed stocks. This class of seed shall be of a quality suitable for the production of certified seed. This seed is usually, but not always, one generation from foundation seed.
Certified seed is produced from foundation, registered, certified, or other approved seed stocks. This seed is two generations from foundation seed. Certified seed can not be used to produce certified seed again without the approval of the state certification agency, which can approve production only under extreme conditions.
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Plan ahead. Buy your vegetable seeds now for growing indoors this winter and stock up for your 2009 garden!
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DIRT WORKS Links for Organic and Non-GMO Seed
Please include complete delivery address and phone number in your e-mail if you're writing for a shipping quote on large orders of forage and grain seed. If you don't see the variety you want, call. We have a long list of organic seed available that is too numerous to list. The varieties shown in the web site are those I believe will fit most any requirement, but, I know there are nitch environments and special needs out there.
When ordering seed, plan as far ahead as possible and know as much about the seed you wish to buy before you order it. Each farm has different soil, climates and equipment constraints, and you know best what you need. If you don't, call us and we'll help you make a selection to to the best of our ability. Thanks, John
- Some organic grains are in short supply now due to a few emerging problems. The biofuels industry is competing with land otherwise used for planting of food crops.
- Emerging markets in Africa and Asia are putting s strain on supply and crop failures of already scarce crops are a problem too.
- GMO crops are contaminating some farmer's lands and the corporations are tying them up in court preventing them from producing new seed. Download By Clicking Here
Whenever possible we are substituting non-GMO, untreated conventional seeds on our pages where you would ordinarily find organic seed.
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