Enough with the lawn grass, Im going clover !
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 9:28 pm
anyone else planted clover before?
my lawn was cut in half by the city, they left me with about a 3 foot wall and my front lawn is pretty small now. No one can sit out there because it's just bloody noisy. The city left new sod but the crows loved the bugs that came with that so they pretty much removed my front lawn.. it has too much drainage so unless I water it according to the watering schedule it dies.
It was just turning into a weedy mess and I never seem to actually water it or mow it much, so it dries out in the summer. I decided maybe just raking out what was left of the lawn and planting clover might be a good idea.
Evidently it's a brighter green. It stays greener longer into the winter, it doesn't need so much water , survives droughts better and it can be mowed to an inch long or left a little longer.. It beats out the weeds better than grass.. one drawback is it may turn brown in the middle of winter.. I guess Ill see.
Not sure if my neighbors will hate me if my clover wants to jump to other yards but I'm giving this a try.. .
The seeds surprised me , Most garden places didn't even seem to carry it. when I did find it, it's almost a hundred bucks for a pound of seed. This is white clover..
the red kind is used for other stuff maybe playground seed or for agriculture.. the white stuff grows lower. It seems to have taken already in my back yard under my plumb trees. ..It probably originated from some playground seed.. that stuff has about 3 to 5 percent of the clover in it ..
One drawback of clover is it isn't good for high foot traffic areas but my front lawn is never used for play so I'm giving this a go.. I planted 1/3 of my seeds and Ill plant it again in the spring if it doesn't like being planted this time of year..
I like crows, but I hate that they dig my lawn up looking for bugs. evidently the bugs they go after don't like clover so it should prevent them from tearing it up again this year.. I never had crows tearing at my lawn until the city sdded it, so I think they gave me this beetle that the crows love along with the sod.
I read that clover adds nitrogen to the soil so from what I found out it seems to actually do good things to the soil and it's possible to revert back to grass.. It seemed like it has so much going for it. I'm not sure why it seems so uncommon to plant clover rather than lawn grass.. Ill let you all know what my results are. If it is a smart idea, Im not sure why everyone else isn't growing it.... but I guess Ill just have to try in order to find out.
Phil
my lawn was cut in half by the city, they left me with about a 3 foot wall and my front lawn is pretty small now. No one can sit out there because it's just bloody noisy. The city left new sod but the crows loved the bugs that came with that so they pretty much removed my front lawn.. it has too much drainage so unless I water it according to the watering schedule it dies.
It was just turning into a weedy mess and I never seem to actually water it or mow it much, so it dries out in the summer. I decided maybe just raking out what was left of the lawn and planting clover might be a good idea.
Evidently it's a brighter green. It stays greener longer into the winter, it doesn't need so much water , survives droughts better and it can be mowed to an inch long or left a little longer.. It beats out the weeds better than grass.. one drawback is it may turn brown in the middle of winter.. I guess Ill see.
Not sure if my neighbors will hate me if my clover wants to jump to other yards but I'm giving this a try.. .
The seeds surprised me , Most garden places didn't even seem to carry it. when I did find it, it's almost a hundred bucks for a pound of seed. This is white clover..
the red kind is used for other stuff maybe playground seed or for agriculture.. the white stuff grows lower. It seems to have taken already in my back yard under my plumb trees. ..It probably originated from some playground seed.. that stuff has about 3 to 5 percent of the clover in it ..
One drawback of clover is it isn't good for high foot traffic areas but my front lawn is never used for play so I'm giving this a go.. I planted 1/3 of my seeds and Ill plant it again in the spring if it doesn't like being planted this time of year..
I like crows, but I hate that they dig my lawn up looking for bugs. evidently the bugs they go after don't like clover so it should prevent them from tearing it up again this year.. I never had crows tearing at my lawn until the city sdded it, so I think they gave me this beetle that the crows love along with the sod.
I read that clover adds nitrogen to the soil so from what I found out it seems to actually do good things to the soil and it's possible to revert back to grass.. It seemed like it has so much going for it. I'm not sure why it seems so uncommon to plant clover rather than lawn grass.. Ill let you all know what my results are. If it is a smart idea, Im not sure why everyone else isn't growing it.... but I guess Ill just have to try in order to find out.
Phil