The sight of red clover blossoming between the rows of vines is a particular pleasure at the moment. Apart from its fragrance and its capacity for nourishing bees this plant fulfills an important function as guarantor for the quality of our soils.

Red clover grows upright. With its strong, far-reaching central trunk root and numerous smaller roots it aerates the soil.

The side roots also harbour rhizobia, bacteria able to bind nitrogen (an important fertilizer) from the air. Later in the year, the clover will one more be plowed into the ground and will serve as natural fertilizer.

Red clover also "steals" water from other plants. During the moister periods, this is a very useful quality to further competition between plants and withdraw excess moisture from the vines.

Red clover thirves on poor, unfertilized and stony soils. At the Bründlmayer Vinery we do not use chemical fertilizing. Natural feritlizers agents such as compost, cow dung, sugar beet seeds or green mulch from clover and other herbs are our sustainable alternative.