5.2 Perennials
5.2 Perennials
5.2 Perennials
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vanilla 16 ; excellent 35 .<br />
Notes: reasons for its decline in popularity as an agricultu<br />
to persist in fields due to its hard seed coat; susceptibility<br />
weevil.<br />
Sweet clover often thrives where few other plant<br />
quarries and waste land. However, some highway depart<br />
planting sweet clover on road verges for ground cover<br />
opinion: the volunteer plants have a tendency to become a<br />
especially where seed crops are grown, or the plants are c<br />
for use along road verges (e.g. parts of B.C.).<br />
In its earlier and more popular era, sweet clover w<br />
naturalizing to increase bee forage. In 1938, in B.C., it was<br />
liming before sowing along a roadside would help to esta<br />
for bee forage 73 .<br />
Useful for soils too wet or too dry for either Me<br />
pratense (red clover); does best in well-drained clay or c<br />
logged or acid soil; grows up to 2 250 m 17 .<br />
None of the sweet clovers makes a particularly attra<br />
may be suitable for some roadsides, banks or waste land<br />
eradicate obnoxious weeds by crowding them out. See also<br />
Melilotus alba Desr.<br />
white sweet clover, bee clover, white melilot, melilot blanc<br />
bienn. hardiness depends on cv. mid Jul-late Aug<br />
Value for honey: HP5/6 16 ; N sugar concentration 33% o<br />
soi1 67 ; N sugar concentration of M. alba was 35% and<br />
clover) was 52% on the same day and same situation 79 (s<br />
much less of a difference) 17 ; despite its lower sugar concen<br />
reputation among beekeepers than M. officinalis 6I ; this is p<br />
the overall volume of N secreted by the white is probably<br />
yellow 16,67<br />
N flow starts about two weeks after the yellow (o<br />
alfalfa flow) and is a little shorter than the flow from the y<br />
for up to 7 weeks, but each flower blooms only for about 3-<br />
Value for pollen: little P gathered; honeybees observed to<br />
of P from this than from M. officinalis, and the loads are alw<br />
yellowish-green to green or brown 17.<br />
Honey: may have a greenish tinge; classed as white to wa<br />
one week of removing from the hive and forms a fine m<br />
cinnamon and is mild to peppery 16 .