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I cannot for the life of me remember where I read this, but I heard that marketing is what labeled clover as bad. Clover was supposedly a fine plant to have in
by noxToken 7y ago
I cannot for the life of me remember where I read this, but I heard that marketing is what labeled clover as bad. Clover was supposedly a fine plant to have in your yard. Herbicides couldn't (or was too expensive to) be formulated to kill clover without also killing other desirable grasses. The fix was to market clover as an undesirable weed instead.
- Infernal 7y agoYou came very close to my understanding - herbicides that left clover and desirable grass alone were not developed - the best performing weed killers also killed clover, so clover was defined by marketing as a weed to fix that particular bug of the herbicides.