Crimson clover

From improving soil health to attracting pollinators, discover why you should be growing crimson clover as a cover crop in your home garden.

Plate 17; Seed, Plate 27, Fig. 29. Other English names: Scarlet Clover, Italian Clover, German Clover. Botanical description: Crimson Clover is an annual plant with a strong taproot provided with th...

How to grow and harvest Crimson Clover

We put in our first planting of crimson clover this weekend. We do this, of course, for the bees. If all goes well, here’s what will happen: The clover seed will germinate and sprout fairly q…

Crimson clover

Crimson is an excellent cover crop and has really good nitrogen-fixing abilities. Learn how to use it here. #gardening #homesteading

Used in farming for years, you can also grow cover crops in your home garden to improve and protect the soil. The recommended seed sowing times are early spring and fall.

Clover crispbreads – from ideally red but also white clover – are a delicious and surprisingly easy way to eat your lawn. I was introduced to these by my very… Read More

Trifolium incarnatum (Crimson Clover) is an annual plant producing a densely hairy rosette of upright stems topped with elongated heads of bright scarlet flowers.

One of my favorite August gardening joys is sowing crimson red clover (Trifolium incarnatum) seeds up and down my driveway. I look forward to the bright...

Clover has many good properties to benefit health. Red Clover (actually purple color …don’t ask me why it is called red) and Crimson Clover have the same benefits. White Clover is similar but…

Find Purpurascens Quadrifolium Clover (Trifolium repens 'Purpurascens Quadrifolium') in Davidsonville, Maryland (MD) at Homestead Gardens (Atropurpureum, Purpureum)

Crimson clover cover crop between the vine rows at Fairsing Vineyard. Clover, a highly nutritive ground cover, has been valued through the ages as a symbol of good fortune and as one of the earliest cultivated commercial plants.

Crimson Clover - Official Website

British flowering plants. By W. F. Kirby. With 120 coloured plates, showing the most important characters of each plant figured; and 119 illustrations in the text. (1906) From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.

Discover the benefits of cover crops for your garden or farm. Learn how they improve soil health, prevent erosion, and support pollinators naturally.