Organic Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover - 1 OZ ~15,625 Seeds - Organic, Non-GMO, Open Pollinated - Biennial - Farm & Garden Ground Cover Crop - AKA: Ribbed Melilot

Organic Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover - This Yellow clover has blossoms with a characteristic sweet odor, blooming in the spring and summer. A drought survivor, it is the most tolerant of any cover crops that produce a similar biomass. A member of the legume family, and treated with the rhizobium bacteria, you will have increased nitrogen production, and thus yield more, as a green manure. Growing as an annual or biennial and reaching 4-6 feet high when mature. With long roots pulling nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous to the surface, you can have increased yields to crops like corn over other common fertilizers. This Sweet Clover has higher biomass production in warm weather than any other, including alfalfa. Plant in spring. Harvest from 3,000 to 3,500 lbs/acre 1st year. In its second year, this cultivar of sweet clover reaches its maximum potential and you can harvest an additional 4,500 lbs to 5,500 lbs/acre. Plants may reach 8 feet tall, roots 1 foot, and side shoots as much as 5 feet. They aerate your soil, and making it ready for your vegetable or cereal crops. Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover is known as a traditional green manure crop in the Midwest. Producing around 100 lbs of Nitrogen per acre in a season. Popular with Bees. Seed production fields utilizing natural pollinators yield between 50 and 100 pounds of seed per acre, while fields using one to two colonies of honey bees yield up to 700 pounds of seed per acre. Seeds can even be viable for up to 30 years!