Thinking about growing a clover lawn? Here's how
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Published 2022-07-14
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All Comments (21)
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"Do your research online" bro you are my research online, just tell me
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I'm glad we've come full circle back to clover. It's an amazing crop.
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I did this in an area that only gets half day sun and it looks great. I personally think its prettier and greener than grass. Plus the bees are an added benefit.
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Its a constant shift in the balance between the ratio of grass and clover at my house. The clover bind nitrogen, and fertize the soil locally. When the soil gets more fertile the grass take over a bit, until the intrigen is consumed, and thus leaving room for increasing the population of clover. The clover is present locally where i live, so no seed needed. I really like this balance between clover and grass. I never add fertilizer or water, just using the lawn mower
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Love the idea of capitalizing on something that is already flourishing rather than fighting it especially when there are benefits. Now all I have to do is convince my husband.
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FINALLY someone recognizes this!!!!! My left side is clover on purpose and I want to do a section in the back on both sides with clover. It's an excellent crop and you can take the clippings and put in in the grass with emergent and it will naturally and organically feed the grounds. We have one customer with this they love it
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I started growing creeping thyme and oregano. They are drought resistant. Clover isn't quite as tolerant but better than grass.
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I'm going to try this in the spring. I noticed last summer during our drought periods the only part of my lawn that was green was the clover.
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I feel completely enlightened after watching this video. Mark, you're my hero, I'm following suit.
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I have wanted to plant clover to replace my grass lawn for several years now, so this is the year that I start. Thanks for your information and encouragement. I live in SE Wisconsin and I cannot wait to get started.
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I did similar to my back yard and this year I've seen hundreds of bees other pollinators. Moving to do the same in my front lawn knowing it will look great.
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The lawn at my house got taken over by clover over the years. Was worried had to redo the lawn but now I'm just gonna leave it there.
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In Denmark clover has always been part of the "græsplæne" grass lawn. I was recently surprised to learn that some lawns only have grass.
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I have inherited a lawn with many weeds. I like the idea of filling the holes I will need to make to extract them with clover.
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Thank you so much for the advice. Glad I found your video. I am in Edmonton too, with a big backyard, which is mainly grass. I’ve just recently found out about white clover, and I’m looking forward to hopefully getting it to grow in my yard too. Wish I had heard about clover before! Take care and thanks again.
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I think I'm going to do this. My family will love it.
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Love this!! Your lawn looks beautiful
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Our first little house had a front yard of dichondra; I'm pretty sure it was this it was a bunch of little soft clovers like this, it did very well it was beautiful.
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Ooh a 4 leaf clover! I used to look for those during recess.
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Awesome! We have started clover,also our large front yard we went total xeriscape 🙂. Very happy 😊 so nice not mowing
