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Re: red clover question

[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of Red Clover Control]
Cindy-We have had the same problem, in some areas it was so thick you 
could not see the ground, I have attached the method we have used, and 
believe me it is working well, we still have red clover, but in most 
areas have reduced it by more than 90 percent.

Carl


On Jul 7, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Grantridge@aol.com wrote:

> First, a salute to Wayne Morton.  Twenty-seven acres of thick brush 
> cleared?
> WOW.  I'll remember that as I face brush here in Iowa.
>
> Compared to thick brush, a red clover problem (Trifolium pratense) may 
> be
> minor.  I haven't been able to find control info on the Internet, so 
> maybe
> it's
> not considered a serious invasive.  But red clover is increasing 
> significantly
> on my prairie reconstruction, while other non-native legumes are 
> declining.
>
> The reconstruction is thirteen years old and has fair diversity (about 
> eighty
> species).  The red clover is intermingled with both warm season 
> natives like
> prairie blazingstar and cool season natives like blue-eyed grass.  So 
> I'm
> leery about spraying.  But maybe there's a way to do it without 
> sacrificing a
> lot
> of good plants(?)  Or maybe another strategy would work.  Pulling or 
> digging
> all the plants would take huge amounts of time and energy, but if 
> that's the
> only solution, I want to know.
>
> I'd appreciate info from anyone who has dealt with red clover 
> successfully.
> I'll pass solutions around, because others in my area have the problem 
> too.  I
> have talked with a few people who said that red clover declined when 
> they
> used prescribed fire and added native legume species as competition.  
> But fire
> and native legumes are not helping here, so I need new strategies.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cindy
>
>
> Cindy Hildebrand
> grantridge@aol.com
> Ames, IA  50010
>
> "Observed an Eclips of the Moon. I had no other glass to assist me in 
> this
> observation but a small refracting telescope belonging to my sextant,
> which...enabled me to define the edge of the moon's immage with much 
> more
> precision that
> I could have done with the natural eye."  (Meriwether Lewis)
>
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