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I hope it does well for you, the bees love it. It needs a calcareous alkaline soil, and is not supposed to do well in acid soils. It requires a unique inoculum. The inoculum for clover and alfalfa will not make colonies on the roots. The seedlings look like nothing I have ever grown, and bear no resemblance to sweet clover. I bet if you look the sweet clover is there too. You will probably have both bloom next year. After that the sainfoin will shade out the sweet clover seedlings and it will disappear. At least that is what happens out here. Sainfoin does real well for us. We have carbonate soils and the pH runs up near 8.
Dave
Dave