Ive been reading a lot about the benefits of micro clover but i want to know if anyone has tried it. Would you suggest it?
Microclover Lawn
Ive been reading a lot about the benefits of micro clover but i want to know if anyone has tried it. Would you suggest it?
dont buy the microclover shit just get normal dutch white clover and keep it mowed. microclover is only small for 1 generation.
in sunny areas clover is incredible and spring to midsummer will look unbelievably green, but late summer it starts getting stringy and doesnt look too great.
also good to preseed in late fall/winter to pack the seed bed before seeding again in early spring.
This homie knows. Also definitely mow that shit. You might think to yourself, "oh those clover flowers are good for pollinators I can just let it grow". Frick the pollinators, Don't let it flower, it's an annual so after it flowers it dies and you will have huge dead spots, plus stepping on bees isn't great.
What height do you set your mowrr?
boomers trying for new mowers all the time keep that blade too low to ground, hunting for pegs and shit along with rocks to (oops mower blade broke, chuck mower and get new, improved model)
just don't plant ONLY one type of grass/plant on your lawn, thats stupid as shit(each type works better for each season/weather ideally for your area/soil)
if you got the right mix of seed and plant them right, you'll have green lawn all year as each type grows up/down AND the roots will grow DOWN, keeping your soil alive, healthy, without having to use so much fertilizer your local lakes/streams become ALGAE toxic waste SLUDGE from all that fertilizer you use and blame the people upstream for(unless mcMansions in country side do the same shit and dump all their cattle/horse manure into said stream while kayaker's/ paddle boater friends keep coming/going and leaving cattle gates open fricking over actual farmers that don't do this stupid shit
jesus christ c**t learn to use a full stop
Red clover is worth looking into. It's a better nitrogen fixer than white clover. Not great for animals needing to feed on the hay as it might cause bloat but that might not be a problem for you. Though it's being trialed here in tillage and no observed bloat issues, but I digress.
In general you should mow less with clover as it will last longer but you can reseed. Letting it flower is good for the plant and pollenators love them.
Well done for considering clover anon, lawns need it for the nitrogen and you got advertised into believing you didn't need it but I'm fact must have lawn feed & the latest tool to consume.
>I'm fact must have lawn feed & the latest tool to consume
sorry to hear about your stroke anon
he typo'd one word and you fail to parse the entire sentence?
There was a post on /misc/ about clover in grass seed that was comical but true. Wish I saved it because it explained why those little flowers are good.
>turfing and seeding lawns
Why? Just let grow what may, it's all green from the kerb anyway. My lawn is neatly-mowed weeds and is the lushest lawn on my street. I don't even water it.
I've had good luck over seeding with regular dutch white clover. Scalp the lawn low with the mower, over seed with clover, cover with peat moss and water every day for a week or so.
Will clovers spread to my neighbor's lawns? There's a hay farm adjacent to me
Hay will dominate clover. Clover is short
>Microclover Lawn
Don't fall for [[[his]]] tricks.
Whats good clover for hot as frick climate?
I tried dutch but it dies off every summer.
I want it as cover crop for my garden.
>micro clover
sounds like some bullshit...are you sure somebody isn't just trying to sell you weeds
just get regular clover and mow it. i replaced my lawn with it and it doesn tneed watering. takes a season at least for it to really bloom. sed in spring and late fall. if you dont wan tit to spread to a neighbours lawn mow it befor eit flowers.
Microclovers are good for tight grazing.
Would likely be very suitable for guinea pig or rabbit meat production
I adore clover. It is a nitrogen fixer and improves soil including surface moisture. I blame boomers for hating clover.
Word of warning, stepping on bees hurts.
I have a few types of fruit trees on my property, several which need pollinated by bees (or meticulously by hand which sucks).
I threw down a large patch of red clover seed in that area to attract pollinators.
I have never paid attention to my grass, I live where there is very fertile soil and it just grows like crazy.
The clover that grew was lush and thick and deeper green, didnt grow as tall as fast. The flowers looked nice, all summer I kept thinking how weird it to consider it a weed.
Never heard of microclover, but it makes sense.
I have too much acreage to bother doing it, but I like my clover so much I may consider hitting the front yard with it.
>Never heard of microclover, but it makes sense.
They're sometimes called sheep clovers. adapted heavy grazing
Why would you grow red clover for a lawn? it's such an aggressive grower you can take heavy silage crops off it
- no microclover is not only small for one generation, it gets larger before it flowers then it shrinks back down, and does this every year, never getting over ~6" tall
- no microclover is not an annual. after it flowers it does not die and leave dead spots. in fact it stays alive and becomes exponentially denser because it's re-seeding itself
- yes it takes two seasons to really fill in and look good
- yes stepping on bees hurts
biggest downside to microclover is the weeding. you can't use traditional weed killer because it kills clover. an anon on here a few months back turned me on to a product called 'agrisel grass out max', it kills only grasses, so it's great for things like crabgrass and quackgrass, but won't get a lot of other annoying weeds so you'll be doing a lot of manual weeding. but other than that microclover is amazing.
Best yard is a dirt yard
Bent red fescue, mow about a month after it comes up in the spring, then mow every 3-4 weeks.
> Have natural clover lawn
> Covers 50%
> Neat I don't need to mow ((much))
> Oh look its bee season
> Fricking bees everywhere yellowjackets wasps honeybees bumblebees all over the lawn
> Can't walk anywhere on lawn without getting stung
I guess its nice if you never go on your lawn, and don't mind the endless field of white dead flowers.