A versatile plant, widely used as a green manure and by beekeepers as a nectar plant. It looks great in meadows and attracts many bees and butterflies.
 
Sowing
Sowing can be done in different ways. For example, if you have a meadow where animals spend a lot of time, mark out the corners or sow along the edges and place a ribbon there.
In due course you hand it over to the animals when they have had plenty of time to sow.
If the animals graze under the existing fence, you can use these areas, sowing some of the seeds out of reach of the animals, so that they can develop fully and come back the following year.
Once it has sown or before, you can also mow it with the long grass present and offer it to the animals.
 
Make sure that the animals feed on it selectively, otherwise reduce the amounts. Make sure their feeding behaviour calms down first before offering more.
 
Fertilising
Most grasses like a soil with sufficient metal and mineral trace elements.