white dutch clover

[jmgi]

Does anyone know if white dutch clover will bloom the first year from seed?

[BeeAware]

It does in my area if sown and established in late winter or very early spring.
It fades when hot weather arrives only to return in the fall.

[dcross]

It does here. Germination rate can be poor.

[Camp9]

It also spreads from a rizome root system. It's great stuff.

Camp

[wayacoyote]

It also spreads from a rizome root system. It's great stuff.

Camp

Can its roots be cut (by disking or something) to increase the number of individual plants?

[dcross]

I think tillage would just cause a flush of annual weeds that would shoot up and shade the clover, which is the worst thing for it(except maybe drought). I would just mow it and avoid nitrogen fertilizer. Maybe some P or K though, depending on a soil test.

[Camp9]

I think tillage would just cause a flush of annual weeds that would shoot up and shade the clover, which is the worst thing for it(except maybe drought). I would just mow it and avoid nitrogen fertilizer. Maybe some P or K though, depending on a soil test.

Yep, right on the money. keep it mowed tight. The best places that we have dutch clover is in over grazed pastures, which in our case were over grazing to promote the dutch clover. p and k can help, but you really have to watch that you don't promote the other plants that can choke it out.

Camp