Frost seeding is the practice of broadcasting certain kinds of clover and trefoil seeds on frozen ground near the end of winter to improve pasture. Sounds crazy, but it works. Why bother? More nutritious pasture plants deliver higher protein grazing, making for healthier animals and more growth and gain from a given area of ground. Some excellent species for frost seeding include birdsfoot trefoil, white dutch clover, alsike clover and ladino clover. These are what I’m spreading in the video below.
I think you’ll like the classic 1953 Farmall Super H I use for this job. It’s the perfect little machine for the work. Small, easy to handle, very frugal on fuel, and with that classic old tractor sound. This tractor is 72 years old this year, it starts in all weather and runs perfectly. The most recent thing I had to repair on it was the ignition coil last summer. The only repair before that happened 25 years ago when I changed the points and condenser. There’s a lot to be said for simplicity of the old designs
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