Trifolium incarnatum
Red Clover
Common names: Blood Clover, Rose Clover
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Description
The red clover is a nitrogen-fixing cover crop with striking carmine-red flower heads that attract bees and bumblebees in May and June. Through its root nodules of nitrogen-fixing bacteria, it enriches the soil with atmospheric nitrogen and is well suited as a preparatory crop for heavy feeders, but not for other legumes.
Care instructions
Sow red clover in April or May, or as a fall sowing in August or September, directly into the bed and rake it in flat. Keep the seedbed evenly moist until germination. The fall sowing will overwinter in mild locations and flower the following May. Cut or roll the plant at flowering and incorporate it flat into the soil—this releases the bound nitrogen to benefit the succeeding crop.
Companion planting
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