Last spring I put in 2 acres of dutch white clover for the bees. The seed
is so fine I would have had to mix it with sand to use the seeder so I
spread it by hand on a light snow fall we had at the end of March. Putting
the seed on snow lets you see the seed spread, it is as small as ground
pepper, also the snow melting brings the seed down into the soil. Rotting
snow is suppose to be a fertilizer too but now-a-days it is probably just a
bad mix of pollutants. There was a good bloom this year and I hope for a
better one next year. This year I will try some sweet clover but we really
do not have the type of soil it prefers. That part of the field is more
like a wet gravel pit. The better part of the field has strawberries.

Karen T-K
Maine

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