clover lawn

[mellowtigger]

I still need more practice with a clover lawn.

I've got some sections of walkway that are thick enough with clover to block any unintentional plants growing there. That's good. But that clover is also growing too tall to make a useful walkway. That's bad. I need to figure out what height to mow, so the clover rebounds quickly, quick enough to suppress other seeds from sprouting.

I just mowed some of my walkway in the back yard, the parts that were overgrown by things not clover. I threw down some more clover seed. Hopefully I mowed short enough to kill everything else. We have rain coming here in a few hours, which should help those clover seeds sprout.

I just need more practice at all of this, despite living here for over 8 years already. I lasted about half an hour in today's temperature and humidity, which wasn't bad as Minneapolis weather goes, just more than I'm accustomed to.

Comments

[threemeninaboat]

There's 3/4 acre back there and we have about 60'x60' currently covered in yellow clover and crimson clover and the yellow does get about 5' high. the crimson is a bit higher than knee high but not as easy to establish. NONE of the mini clover ever returned.
If we mow it then it is not a pollen source for bumbles, and we have a A LOT of bumbles now and they are awesome. BRAAAAAAA crash.

[scrottie]

The blackberry bush vibrates like a time machine built by Nikola Tesla running on 20Hz power. The whole yard doing that would be *amazing*.

[wispywillow]

That sounds really lovely. I wish you luck with it! My dream is to have a moss yard someday.

[bitterlawngnome]

Monoculture of any kind is difficult.

[armiphlage]

I've only been successful in getting clover to grow in patches in our lawn, not covering everything.