Travis from MI asks,
Bill, I had a area cleared after a clear cut. I planted red, white clover buckwheat and oats and peas. I recently hired a guy to bush hog it do to the maple and popular shoots. Now it looks so good i am worried about spraying round up and replanting. Lot of exposed soil still. should I just broadcast brassica wheat and little clover? Or spray and hope that I won't have to worry about regeneration in future? Thank you for input.
Bill responds,
Topic: Whether to Spray a Good Looking Clover Plot:
Sometimes just mowing a rough plot will really clean it up. No reason to do more work than you need to. If mowing is enough to clean it up and release the clover, hold off on spraying until you absolutely have to.
Travis,
Personally, I would leave it. I don’t like doing work for work’s sake and sometimes nature does the work for you. I would broadcast some clover into the bare spots and hope those fill in next spring.
If the regeneration of the trees is super aggressive next year you can always spray it then, but often, just mowing that stuff stresses it out enough that it fails to grow as well afterwards.
Give it another season and see what it looks like late next spring. Good luck. (8/3/21)
