Dairy farmers mix all kinds of clover seed in with their feed. Then the dairy cows drop plops in the field as they graze, and it gets planted in a fertilizer.
Buying seed in bulk as Danny was talking about (5 lbs for $15) is a great deal for broadcasting around your front and back yards. Bees love it, it looks great, and it spreads really well. I love clover. It's beautiful. There are other seeds sold in bulk like this that are edible, and using the broadcasting method in areas you want them to grow is a cheap way to get a gazillion seeds. Even with poor germination, that many seeds will always produce. I'm doing bulk dandelions again this spring in my yard and behind my fence. Delicious greens and no effort to grow.
I love the cows. Thank you for the smile in such a rough week. One of my cats went missing Tuesday night and I’ve been so upset. Where I work has become miserable due to a coworker that has returned from maternity leave so watching this channel gives me a little joy in my misery. Thank you
Good Morning, Danny & Wanda... I use Red Clover (not Annual Red Crimson Clover), White Clover & a Grass Seed blend when I established my Fruit Orchard on either side of my long driveway. It's an area of non-production that a put into usefulness instead of lawn maintenance. The Red & White Clovers bloom at different times, so they are a draw for pollinators, are nitrogen fixers for the fruit trees & bushes, Teas & Tinctures for human & animals health and as our Homestead expands it will be utilized for Poultry grazing and fruit drop cleanup.
Crimson clover is definitely an annual - but you can get it to reseed itself if you let it go to flower without mowing the area (especially if you plant it in the fall). I use a mix of crimson and white cover along with tall fescue as a cover crop between the rows in my elderberry field. I keep it mowed for the most part until the elderberry plants have sprouted and gotten a little height on them, but I try to let as much of the crimson bloom as possible. The white clover and the fescue are perennial, so no issue there - but not all of my crimson clover manages to re-seed itself. I end up overseeding the area in the spring or fall (usually ends ub being in the spring for some reason) to keep the crimson growing. Take care and God Bless.
Mr Danny,You forgot #4, that the FLOWERS are BEAUTIFUL too! I guess being FEMALE(if I am allowed to even say that on Y tube anymore) I would point that out😃😃😃God Bless ya,and Ms.Wanda and all yur critters! HAPPY NEW YEAR too.🎉🎈🎆
Thank you for sharing this Danny. It was fun to see a video clip of your dexters running over to the newly delivered red clover bale. I love and appreciate this example of what permaculture looks like.
Bought 50 lbs of crimson clover seed for about 26$, including sales tax, at local ag store in north central OK. Am looking forward to planting this autumn of 2023.
Humans can eat crimson clover too! We make delicious jelly and tea from the flowers. The goats, chickens, and ducks love it, it fixes nitrogen, and takes the place of much more difficult weeds in the garden.
I planted Red Crimson Clover last fall in my high rise garden to help with soil compaction. Pill bug infestation ate all the tiny seedlings so lesson learned. I will grow the clover in the spring in implanted areas and save seed.
I've always used round bale feeder's for my cattle until this year and now I unroll my round bale now and it works with spreading the seeds better and also when the cattle eat they are fertilizing the fields instead of it being all around a bale feeder
I reseed every year here on the farm the range area and the trials.. red clover tends to not regrow as mcuh each years as the white clover... deer love it...
You made some a great points. Thanks for the info. I'll start spreading it in my pasture. It's a beautiful plant too. In times like we are living, we need to work smart not hard. Blessings
I plant red clover around all my fruit trees every fall to enrich the soil. Then after it gets hot & the clover start to die back, I add it to the compost pile. Works great!
Win win situation I have red and white clover on my property and I often leave spots and let it go to seed on purpose.......I also have a mower with a bagger......chickens and rabbits love it😊 wish I could find a reel mower with a bagger..... power mower Chops it up to much.
Clover is a great animal feed. And then any time you can get two benefits for one you are way ahead of the game. Don't forget you can also use clover as a cover crop for the garden. I'm testing Dutch White Clover this year as it adds 200lbs nitrogen per acre vs the 50-80lbs from Red Crimson (which is still fantastic). Put some Buckwheat down for pollinator and beneficial insect attraction (my 'insecticide' program) plus the phosphorus and manganese it pulls out for follow up crops.
Thank you farmers for doing the work according to the gifts our creator has bestowed upon life and the land. This is one of the most important ways we can return to true abundance and relationship with each other and all our kin. I’ve just received a pound of red clover seed that I will use in my community garden bed. It’s for nutrition, medicine(great cancer prevention and treatment as well as blood purification) and my soil. Keep at it, I love who you are and what you’re doing
Thanks for reminding me that I have a small bag of those seeds! Oddly - I have been advised that crimson clover MUST be inoculated…… and then there’s Danny! Everything just grows in a well-balanced environment! ❤❤ Thank you. Reminds me of a gardener in my town who complained about some insect infestation. I didn’t have that infestation since nature balances out when humans don’t interfere.
Thank you! We only have an acre here we live on but I finally ordered some crimson clover seed last night after reading up on it. Ive been doing what I can to help make soil here (very sandy) by piling up the live oak leaves. The worms and centipedes are doing a good job but i really want to help pollinators out also. I wish I could find some clover hay, that would be amazing but not sure that's possible, but I'm definitely going to search for it💚🌱 You're cows are beautiful!
It’s a southern crop. If planted in September it will not reliably overwinter anywhere in Zone 4, and maybe not in Zone 5. That said, it’s a fantastic nitrogen fixer and soil builder where it will grow.
Good morning. Great idea. Now I need some cute cows.have a great day!!! We’ve tried a little bit of everything austrian peas , winter rye, and I rotate a field “small’ of cow peas fess for the soil/ deer.This year I’ll try a corn in the cow pea field. Thank you. From NJ❤
Welcome Danny. I have missed you and Wanda for the past couple of days. I tried to go onto ?Freesteading app and could not sign in. Missed hearing from both of you.
Great information Danny. Here’s another idea: feed the hay where you want the clover to grow. Obviously not on the pond banks or other places you don’t want excessive trampling. Don’t bother with the feeder. Maybe even unroll the bales. Let the cows do the work.
Hi Danny. Love your work. Could you please refresh my memory re the name of the herbicide used in hay, that contaminates cow poop (fertilizer)? I recall you talking about how fertikizer made with contaminated cow poop killed crops. Thank you kindly.
Question I planted it in my gardens last fall can I plant corn in it with out killing the clover I just want to give it a little hair cut and keep the clover alive thanks
What is the best way to grow it? When used as a cover crop, what do I do in the spring to keep it from taking over my crops? I’m just confused on how to actually grow it so that it benefits us but doesn’t take over our lawn. My husband would have a cow if it invaded his Zoysia grass! Lol
Hello, have a question about Crimson Clover. I know it does well in cooler temps. In higher temps will it go dormant until soil cools down? I'm in SC, heartiness zone 8 and planted crimson around mid-june. Been very hot, up in 90s. Had decent amount of rain so not necessarily drought, just very hot. Will crimson start to take later in fall when temps cool down? So far doesn't look like ANY has germinated..thank you!!
Good morning. Cheers with my coffee cup. I have to laugh because I just thought I need to get rid of my english Ivy somehow and get clover. I am trying to figure out how to get rid of the english Ivy first. Do you have any idea? I thought Big tarps left for a season? This Ivy has been there for about 20 years so they have storng roots. I was then going to have movable chicken house on top of it.
While I do not have English Ivy, I have another vine that is very tough and invasive, with pretty purple flowers. But it took over the yard, and I have to weed whack in down, or it will climb up everything and kill it. Trying to take it out would be a monstrous job, as the roots are very long too. I have considered getting rolls of weed block and just covering most of my yard with it. I have used it extensively as a green mulch, but my plants don't seem to like it. I think using the weed block would at least knock it down, but with those roots, I'm not sure it would kill it off. There are other methods of killing off stuff like that, but it might make your soil toxic. I've used tons of salt to kill off small trees, but the salt stays in the soil a very long time. You might try small patches to see how straight vinegar works. It works on weeds. Boiling water might also do the trick. One patch at a time.
Now the song crimson and clover is stuck in my head. Always enjoy watching the cows.
NOW THAT's FUNNY!🤣🤣🤣
Umm…..you’re nit the only one! 🤣
Me too, but some of those old songs were trying to tell us something...red clover detoxes the body, balances hormones, etc...better than anything else
Red clover 🍀 is a great herb for healing purposes as well
Does it have the same properties as the red clover? I can’t seem to find any info on the crimson clover.
Dairy farmers mix all kinds of clover seed in with their feed. Then the dairy cows drop plops in the field as they graze, and it gets planted in a fertilizer.
We use the red clover as green manure. It improves the nitrogen profile of the soil. Also use the flowers for tea and a healing salve.
Buying seed in bulk as Danny was talking about (5 lbs for $15) is a great deal for broadcasting around your front and back yards. Bees love it, it looks great, and it spreads really well. I love clover. It's beautiful. There are other seeds sold in bulk like this that are edible, and using the broadcasting method in areas you want them to grow is a cheap way to get a gazillion seeds. Even with poor germination, that many seeds will always produce. I'm doing bulk dandelions again this spring in my yard and behind my fence. Delicious greens and no effort to grow.
I see it in median of the interstate in the spring, and it looks like berries or something good to eat.
Thank you for input. Learning more
Good morning brother!
Good morning
I love the cows. Thank you for the smile in such a rough week. One of my cats went missing Tuesday night and I’ve been so upset. Where I work has become miserable due to a coworker that has returned from maternity leave so watching this channel gives me a little joy in my misery. Thank you
Good Morning, Danny & Wanda...
I use Red Clover (not Annual Red Crimson Clover), White Clover & a Grass Seed blend when I established my Fruit Orchard on either side of my long driveway. It's an area of non-production that a put into usefulness instead of lawn maintenance.
The Red & White Clovers bloom at different times, so they are a draw for pollinators, are nitrogen fixers for the fruit trees & bushes, Teas & Tinctures for human & animals health and as our Homestead expands it will be utilized for Poultry grazing and fruit drop cleanup.
Good morning
Crimson clover is definitely an annual - but you can get it to reseed itself if you let it go to flower without mowing the area (especially if you plant it in the fall). I use a mix of crimson and white cover along with tall fescue as a cover crop between the rows in my elderberry field. I keep it mowed for the most part until the elderberry plants have sprouted and gotten a little height on them, but I try to let as much of the crimson bloom as possible.
The white clover and the fescue are perennial, so no issue there - but not all of my crimson clover manages to re-seed itself. I end up overseeding the area in the spring or fall (usually ends ub being in the spring for some reason) to keep the crimson growing.
Take care and God Bless.
Love red clover and have a small patch that grows. Even made clover jelly.
Now that I have never heard of. I will look it up. Thanx for the tip.
Makes great jelly.
Everytime I listen to you guys I see the order in Gods creation! It’s beautiful!!
THANK YOU both beyond words…..
I agree Patty!
Also is a pollinator attractor.
Work smarter, not harder must be your mantra, Danny & Wanda.
Mr Danny,You forgot #4, that the FLOWERS are BEAUTIFUL too! I guess being FEMALE(if I am allowed to even say that on Y tube anymore) I would point that out😃😃😃God Bless ya,and Ms.Wanda and all yur critters! HAPPY NEW YEAR too.🎉🎈🎆
Happy New Year
Oh my, if the red crimson clover must bloom it would be beautiful. Thank you Danny and Wanda. ❤❤
Your cows are absolutely beautiful! My daughter used to take her rabbit for walks and they also love the red clover. Have a wonderful day.
Lol…too cute! My rabbits are confined, but yes, my hens and I do a “chicken stroll” around the front of my ppty each afternoon. 🐇🐇🐓🐓🐓
Good morning DSH. A good little informational video. Keep em coming. Stay safe up there and keep on growing 🤠
Good morning!
Good Morning Danny and Wanda. Have a blessed day.
Good morning!
Beautiful! Win win win
Thank you for sharing this Danny. It was fun to see a video clip of your dexters running over to the newly delivered red clover bale. I love and appreciate this example of what permaculture looks like.
Good morning and thank you. I have seeds but will ask around for anyone who bales it too. Medicinal teas for ppl and good for soil 😁
Good morning!
These type videos are some of the most important ones you do. Knowledge..love it!
Bought 50 lbs of crimson clover seed for about 26$, including sales tax, at local ag store in north central OK. Am looking forward to planting this autumn of 2023.
I planted this as a cover crop for the garden last fall for the first time. I plan on using it as a green manure. Thanks Danny.
I did. It was a good soil lightner.
Good morning 😊
I love all the info you 2 give us thank you
Good morning!
Humans can eat crimson clover too!
We make delicious jelly and tea from the flowers.
The goats, chickens, and ducks love it, it fixes nitrogen, and takes the place of much more difficult weeds in the garden.
I planted Red Crimson Clover last fall in my high rise garden to help with soil compaction. Pill bug infestation ate all the tiny seedlings so lesson learned. I will grow the clover in the spring in implanted areas and save seed.
I've always used round bale feeder's for my cattle until this year and now I unroll my round bale now and it works with spreading the seeds better and also when the cattle eat they are fertilizing the fields instead of it being all around a bale feeder
I have red and white clover growing wild all over my property and it’s amazing. Great advice Danny
I've learned so much from you guys. Thank you both. Have a great day, God bless
I reseed every year here on the farm the range area and the trials.. red clover tends to not regrow as mcuh each years as the white clover... deer love it...
Good morning Danny, that is so great. Working things like they are supposed to work 👍 Have a great day with Wanda ❤️
Good morning!
Good morning Danny & Miss Wanda! Thank you for sharing this great info! Have a wonderful day you two! ❤️ God bless
Good morning!
You made some a great points. Thanks for the info. I'll start spreading it in my pasture. It's a beautiful plant too. In times like we are living, we need to work smart not hard. Blessings
It's great for bees as well!
Yes indeed!
Morning y’all.
Morning
Thank you for what you do D & W.👍
The song comes to mind "Crimson and Clover" . . . .blessins
Brother Danny you are a very Wise Man and I just love your cows!❤🤗
I plant red clover around all my fruit trees every fall to enrich the soil. Then after it gets hot & the clover start to die back, I add it to the compost pile. Works great!
Thank you and God bless you and your family ✝️💖
I harvested a whole bunch of those seeds this last year. Adding it to my medicinal garden plan.
Good morning! Good information my friend 👍
Good morning
Thank you Danny for another informative video.
👍😜Always something new that resonates as something that will work for me😁Thanks Brother,& God Bless us All🇺🇸🙏🎚
Win win situation I have red and white clover on my property and I often leave spots and let it go to seed on purpose.......I also have a mower with a bagger......chickens and rabbits love it😊 wish I could find a reel mower with a bagger..... power mower Chops it up to much.
Also honey bees and most pollinators love it and deer too so it leaves your crops alone
Great video.. love the info on the red clover..!!!
Always as God intended! Thank you Danny
Thanks Danny for telling us about everything 70 and learn new all time
Clover is a great animal feed. And then any time you can get two benefits for one you are way ahead of the game. Don't forget you can also use clover as a cover crop for the garden. I'm testing Dutch White Clover this year as it adds 200lbs nitrogen per acre vs the 50-80lbs from Red Crimson (which is still fantastic). Put some Buckwheat down for pollinator and beneficial insect attraction (my 'insecticide' program) plus the phosphorus and manganese it pulls out for follow up crops.
Thank you farmers for doing the work according to the gifts our creator has bestowed upon life and the land. This is one of the most important ways we can return to true abundance and relationship with each other and all our kin. I’ve just received a pound of red clover seed that I will use in my community garden bed. It’s for nutrition, medicine(great cancer prevention and treatment as well as blood purification) and my soil. Keep at it, I love who you are and what you’re doing
Our cows and pigs love clover hay
Wonderful! And it's all by DESIGN! 🌻
Farmers up here prefer the clover hay. 2nd cutting is allowed to set seed before cutting too.
Thanks for reminding me that I have a small bag of those seeds! Oddly - I have been advised that crimson clover MUST be inoculated…… and then there’s Danny! Everything just grows in a well-balanced environment! ❤❤ Thank you. Reminds me of a gardener in my town who complained about some insect infestation. I didn’t have that infestation since nature balances out when humans don’t interfere.
Good morning Danny and Wanda the red clover is medicinal I love having a good cup of 🍵 thanks again for sharing this with everyone.
Good morning!
Thank you! We only have an acre here we live on but I finally ordered some crimson clover seed last night after reading up on it. Ive been doing what I can to help make soil here (very sandy) by piling up the live oak leaves. The worms and centipedes are doing a good job but i really want to help pollinators out also. I wish I could find some clover hay, that would be amazing but not sure that's possible, but I'm definitely going to search for it💚🌱 You're cows are beautiful!
Thank you for the tips! This video was super helpful. God bless ya'll.
Good morning ❤️ Your outside working and I haven't been to sleep yet lol. I have trouble sleeping 😴 Have a good day 😊
Good morning!
Interesting. I have never heard of red crimson clover.
It’s a southern crop. If planted in September it will not reliably overwinter anywhere in Zone 4, and maybe not in Zone 5.
That said, it’s a fantastic nitrogen fixer and soil builder where it will grow.
Thanks so much for inspiring us all 🤗
You are so welcome!
Excellent Danny !!!
Good for everyone.
Good morning y’all , very good advice!!
Good morning!
Good morning. Great idea. Now I need some cute cows.have a great day!!! We’ve tried a little bit of everything austrian peas , winter rye, and I rotate a field “small’ of cow peas fess for the soil/ deer.This year I’ll try a corn in the cow pea field. Thank you. From NJ❤
Thanks for the great information Danny love in Christ to you and 3:29 😊Wanda Fran in Mississippi
Chickens and rabbits love it too!
Yes they do
I don't have red crimson clover . I have the
One with the little white flowers
Welcome Danny. I have missed you and Wanda for the past couple of days. I tried to go onto ?Freesteading app and could not sign in. Missed hearing from both of you.
Morning you don't have to resign in to go back on Freesteading your already signed in.
@@DeepSouthHomestead I kept logging in , the screen never changed.
@@serenitysealed485 go to info@freesteading.com
@@DeepSouthHomestead thank you.
Hey Danny, I might seed our yard instead of having to mess with the grass. Thanks!
That's a good thing to know 🤠 Thanks 👍
Love it!! And the bees love them!
Good ideas. Clover is so good for animals.
Thank you, great informative short video.
Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝
Good video Danny, thanks for sharing !!!
Love it❣️❣️❣️❣️ thank you for sharing this ❣️
You are so welcome
I was wondering if you were going to mention that it is medicinal. Not many people know that. You know everything Mr. Danny! 😀
Mornin’ from Southern Ohio. 🙏🏻
Morning
Danny i like how you talk about covercrops, could you do some trials and test efficiency please
4th benefit.
It's free.
It doesn't cost any more money to use the seed.
Yes
Great information! Thanks y'all
Good morning
Morning
Good morning from Indian land sc
I bought a 50lb bag of red clover and it cost over $150 …
Great information Danny.
Here’s another idea: feed the hay where you want the clover to grow. Obviously not on the pond banks or other places you don’t want excessive trampling. Don’t bother with the feeder. Maybe even unroll the bales. Let the cows do the work.
We tried unrolling it but with a small number of cows they were wasting lots of it.
I’m trying to use it to get rid of yellow star thistle
Thank you ❤
Hi Danny. Love your work. Could you please refresh my memory re the name of the herbicide used in hay, that contaminates cow poop (fertilizer)? I
recall you talking about how fertikizer made with contaminated cow poop killed crops. Thank you kindly.
I mention all 4 in the video.
Grazon is the herbicide Danny has mentioned, in several of his videos.
Question I planted it in my gardens last fall can I plant corn in it with out killing the clover I just want to give it a little hair cut and keep the clover alive thanks
Your rabbits will love it too. Ingrow a patch for my rabbits,
Great Idea
Omg! I might have to drive there for a trailer load of hay. I can't find any that isn't sprayed.
He would have to know way in advance.
What is the best way to grow it? When used as a cover crop, what do I do in the spring to keep it from taking over my crops? I’m just confused on how to actually grow it so that it benefits us but doesn’t take over our lawn. My husband would have a cow if it invaded his Zoysia grass! Lol
Hello, have a question about Crimson Clover. I know it does well in cooler temps. In higher temps will it go dormant until soil cools down? I'm in SC, heartiness zone 8 and planted crimson around mid-june. Been very hot, up in 90s. Had decent amount of rain so not necessarily drought, just very hot. Will crimson start to take later in fall when temps cool down? So far doesn't look like ANY has germinated..thank you!!
Does he white clover add nitrogen as well. I have quite a bit growing on its own.
Good question.
Yes it does.
Good morning. Cheers with my coffee cup. I have to laugh because I just thought I need to get rid of my english Ivy somehow and get clover. I am trying to figure out how to get rid of the english Ivy first. Do you have any idea? I thought Big tarps left for a season? This Ivy has been there for about 20 years so they have storng roots. I was then going to have movable chicken house on top of it.
Good morning!
While I do not have English Ivy, I have another vine that is very tough and invasive, with pretty purple flowers. But it took over the yard, and I have to weed whack in down, or it will climb up everything and kill it. Trying to take it out would be a monstrous job, as the roots are very long too. I have considered getting rolls of weed block and just covering most of my yard with it. I have used it extensively as a green mulch, but my plants don't seem to like it. I think using the weed block would at least knock it down, but with those roots, I'm not sure it would kill it off. There are other methods of killing off stuff like that, but it might make your soil toxic. I've used tons of salt to kill off small trees, but the salt stays in the soil a very long time. You might try small patches to see how straight vinegar works. It works on weeds. Boiling water might also do the trick. One patch at a time.
@@yellowbird5411 Sounds like your dealing with wisteria.
Agriculture vinegar may work but be careful using it. It's way stronger than regular vinegar.
Does anyone know if donkeys can eat the red clover?
Happy New Year Danny. Do you know of a network or a rancher in North Texas that might help me locate Dexters?
I looked on line there's several in north Texas that sell Dexter's.
USDA just approved a vaccine for honey bees.
You support?
In south central MS, can we still plant now for this year?
Yes