01/30/2023
This year will be the year of cover crops. I have several I am going to trial. Yellow sweet clover is one of them. It has a great root system. Deep tap root opening up the soil aerating it, a dense root system which provides great organic matter when the crop is terminated, drought tolerant, and it’s a great pollinator forage plant. This crop will help open up our soils, provide a lot nitrogen (clovers are a legume) and it’s a heavy nectar flowing plant.
Great for our pollinators. Sweet clover is a biannual so it puts a tremendous amount of growth into its root system first then in the second year the growth is focused into the rest of the plant. While top growth is visually pleasing for people, when using cover crops for soil health, the root system is the most important. It’s a win win with this cover crop. Later we’ll share more about our other cover crops on the homestead.
