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What clover? Would love to do this even though clover is really expensive. I planted some last year but it only half kinda took.
by odonnellryan 5y ago
What clover? Would love to do this even though clover is really expensive. I planted some last year but it only half kinda took.
- candiddevmike 5y agoIt's a mix of white and pink, mostly white though. I also planted some creeping thyme and I keep a lot unmowed with some wildflowers. I have a decent sized lawn (little over 1/2 acre), but a good chunk of it is taken up by a septic system.
- lijogdfljk 5y agoDo you have tall grass too? I planted clover a while back over my existing grass and if i didn't mow i'd still have a foot tall grass, which i find really annoying. I still love the clover, and it helps keep the grass a bit more sane - but the length of the grass is my primary fight.
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- londons_explore 5y agoAdd rabbits. Wild rabbits look after themselves (no need to cage them or anything), and will keep grass down to a height of about 2 inches. They stay within about 50 yards of wherever their 'home' hole is, so they won't run off (although their offspring may!). You still need to mow about twice a year to get rid of plants the rabbits don't like to eat, which will otherwise grow into bushes.
- luckman212 5y agoDo rabbits follow the don't shit where you eat mantra? i.e. will there be rabbit poo all over the lawn?
- londons_explore 5y agoNo, but rabbit poo is tiny and isn't too nasty. It won't stick to your shoe if you stand on it for example. Your biggest headache with rabbits is they'll eat other plants you might want (vegetables etc), and will dig burrows in random places. But in my opinion, both those are well worth it for having a lawn that mows itself.
- lijogdfljk 5y agoOh man, i have Rabbits. It's a pretty common war between my dog and Rabbits heh.
- SSLy 5y agoCreeping thyme is not native to americas, you might wish to avoid that particular plant.
- LeifCarrotson 5y agoOne good thing about clover is it can propagate naturally! If you had some native clover half kinda take last year, it should be verdant this year.
- odonnellryan 5y agoThat's good to know!
- zip1234 5y agoThe trick is to do nothing and it will balance out in a year or two :)
- swayvil 5y agoWhere I am, having a lot of clover in your lawn is considered to be a sign that the soil is short some nutrient. Nitrogen or potassium or something. My lawn is about 1/3 clover. Just grows wild. The dirt here is mostly clay, if that significates.
- jws 5y agoNitrogen. Clover can fix its own nitrogen so the game gets tilted in its favor when other plants are struggling for nitrogen.
- oblio 5y agoAmerica, the place where one of the cheapest team sports on the planet (real football) is too expensive to be played by poor people and one of the most abundant weeds in temperate climates is too expensive...
- DFHippie 5y agoIt's not too expensive; it's too class-coded. The football/soccer, I mean. There are plenty of poor immigrants playing it. And where I live the clover appears for free. Maybe it's spread by rabbits.
- odonnellryan 5y agoIt's the seeds you need to buy that are expensive!
- oblio 5y agoOk, but if we're talking about a plant that's available in abundance in many, many regions of the world, why are the seeds so expensive? Do you have to milk clover seeds on the 3rd full moon after the 2nd Sunday after the Summer Solstice, in front of 2 dancing bears and 4 white bats?