Clover lawn?

[simpsongal]

Any of you have experience/advice on sewing clover into your lawn?

We're sort of over our grass, I don't mind a mix of grass and clover. Figured we'll go to the local landscaping place and ask too. I'm ready to break up w/our lawn care company.

[cosmowife]

We kind of let this happen naturally? I don’t think we did anything in particular, it just started taking over on its own. Sorry, not helpful. But I love it because it doesn’t grow as fast, and it encourages bees. And it looks pretty when the flowers bloom (at least until you mow). Super helpful I know.

[tacokick]

We have a clover lawn! We mostly just sprinkled micro clover seeds in any bare patches and it spread. It is very easy. I can’t imagine needing any help from a gardener or landscaping place. We didn’t even really water it.

[RockNVoll]

We mixed clover into our lawn. It was supposed to be micro clover but our landscaping company got the regular kind instead, which at first I wasn't thrilled about but it's fine. It does seem to help keep the lawn greener.

[Pibs]

So this company is local to us in Portland, OR. They specialize in eco-lawns, and they've got a lot of helpful info on their website. They also sell seed, but I'd want to know what's native to the area I live in before buying anything. We moved into our home a year ago so we're still sorting out what we want to do but getting rid of the small amount of grass we have is high on the to-do list!

[dr.girlfriend]

Our front lawn is a lot of clover, and I love it! When we built our addition they seeded our back lawn with regular grass and I hate it -- it's all brown now and I refuse to water things. I had spread some microclover seed in shady areas where the grass didn't take so well, but I might get more and try to seed the whole lawn with it.

[treedimensional]

I replaced my entire turfgrass lawn with Dutch white clover. Bought seeds at a local farm supply store. Just be aware that no other groundcover plant approaches turfgrass for foot traffic tolerance and durability.