Natural fertilizer. I have had MANY years, including this year that I will have 90+ acres of knee high clover, trefoil, alfalfa brome, timothy, orchard grass that will be left standing. It is to late up here to dry good hay. Only exception if if we come into a dry spell with hard freezes at night. If you leave it stand, in the spring you will see a pinch of brown mixed in with your first cutting but nothing to worry about. I have cut a section out of a field and not cut it all. Next spring the section that didnt get cut most times yields better. Standing grass will catch snow and blanket the ground, helping insulate against frost kill. In a dry winter it will blanket the ground from wind and sun to hold moisture. The organic matter that lays down will decompose and make natural fertilizer. How to you think mother nature feed the earth before man invented synthetic fertilizer?? That's why the prairie was so fertile before John Deere invented the plow. At least that is how it works her in the northern Great Lakes. Al
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