For all my love of gardening, I’m not really big into lawn care. In fact, I really don’t like grass all that much.
I think I’ve written before about how I read that the Victorians measured the quality of their lawn by the amount of white clover. The more clover, the better the lawn. I kind of like clover. It has long-lasting flowers, and the honeybees love it.
Lately there hasn’t been much in my lawn, but I got to wondering if maybe they were people like me who liked clover and might want to seed their lawn with it.
There are! It looks like it’s not that uncommon for people to mix clover seed in with grass seed.
Clover fixes nitrogen in the soil, so it can be a legitimate ingredient in a healthy lawn. I just like it for the flowers and the honeybees.
I ordered a five pound bag of seeds.
Yes! We need some of this for the hill at the CDC. Can you walk on this stuff and have it survive?
Yes, this would make a very nice ground cover I think. I can tell you where I got the seeds if you want. They sell large quantities.
The instructions on the package says “Sow seed six weeks before the first hard freeze”. We often don’t get a hard freeze around these parts until after Christmas, so I have plenty of time. You, on the other hand, might need to get the seeds on the ground much more quickly. You might also just decide to do it once now, and once in the spring.