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I wonder if this is like clover? I read somewhere that clover was a part of lawns, until "somehow someone" decided it had to go and chemicals were designed to
by m463 2y ago
I wonder if this is like clover?
I read somewhere that clover was a part of lawns, until "somehow someone" decided it had to go and chemicals were designed to eradicate it.
now lawns are philosophically grass, without clover.
- jemmyw 2y agoClover isn't fun to deal with, it really likes to migrate off the lawn into my flower beds, and hide under plants until it's substantial.
- xandrius 2y agoClover is a great nitrogen fixer. So if you buy products to remove it but then apply other chemicals to add back nutrients, you're simply making the chemical industry happy.
- m463 2y ago> “Back in the ‘30s, ‘40s, ‘50s, it was intentionally included in lawn seed mixes,” wow, things went further than I thought. Not just allow it, but include it.
- jemmyw 2y agoI don't use any chemicals on my lawn anyway. I just weed out the clover when it grows into my flower beds. My plan is on removing as much lawn as possible.
- recursivecaveat 2y agoApparently the shift happened around mid-century: https://gazette.com/life/clover-lawns-colorado-expert-shares-pros-cons-on-recent-trend/article_4ba2e896-e83d-11ed-8e59-af870b318566.html https://gazette.com/life/clover-lawns-colorado-expert-shares...
- cafard 2y agoI can say that in the early 1960s, the understanding was that dandelions were weeds, clover was just clover. Or maybe that was just the understanding in Ohio. My wife grew up in Pennsylvania and doesn't like clover.
- cafard 2y agoBut I should say that my mother-in-law did make dandelion salad now and then, with bacon-and-egg dressing, the bacon cooked but the eggs raw.