Well - 3 weeks ago - we disked the best we could the 2-3 acres that was too wet to plant with corn this spring. It was hard to disk because so many weeds had grown up out of the plowed clover/grass sod - plus it was still very wet.

Last week - I sprayed it with roundup, then Sunday I planted 15 lbs of ladino/alsike clover mixed 50/50 about. I rolled it all flat many times with a cast iron cultipacker - and cast about 20 lbs of soybeans and rolled them in on the far 1/2 acre. Topdressed with 300 lbs of 5-10-5 fertilizer.



In the picture - the field is still pretty green, but was wilting. Its hopefull the spraying and not disking again will help to eliminate weed growth. Not the whole field pictured was planted - in the distance you can see a 1/4 acre section of hay - its too rocky to mow well, much less plant. and on the right you can see a 3/4 acre section of Ladino clover/grass mix thats aging, but I did not plow up.

I' ve never tried Alsike CLover - Have any of you? I hear its between red & White for size - do the deer seem to like it? I' ll update the plot as we go.