Killing clover

mambury

not only is clover pretty (makes up most of my lawn!!!:rolleyes:) the bees like it, its nice to walk on in bare feet ( thats the hippy in me!) its good for the soil and personally, I think grass with daisies, clover and dandelions is much more interesting than a great big green patch in the middle of the garden.

I can;t really offer any advice on how to get rid, coz I never tried!

Mambury

Filey

When i was walking round the village, I came across a young man trimming the edge of his lawn with a small pair of scissors. Some people love their lawns, some don't. Personally I like a bit of grass as it's nice underfoot and good for children to roll about on, and looks refreshing. Equally I like some clover in it as it stays green when the rest has gone brown in a dry spell. In fact I wondered about the possibility of an all clover lawn but I'm not too sure about how it would look in the winter.

I once fancied a chamomile lawn but they are expensive to establish and don't take too well to being walked on. Nice idea though. If anyone prefers a weedless pristine grass lawn, probably with stripes, then good luck to them. It takes all kinds. Some people go out of their way to kill worms as the worm casts show up in closely mown grass. As for moles, bring out the heavy artillery, although I have to admit a mole hill is a bit bigger than a worm cast.

However, every cloud has a silver lining and both worm casts and mole hills, if swept up, make fantastically good seed or potting compost

MrsBartolozzi

My gran used to use salt on patches of clover, apparently it's quite quick and straightforward (and organic too). I believe that it also kills the grass where you salt so you'd need to reseed that bit later.

Penelope_Penguin

We have a square patch of our lawn that is solid clover. We don't mow at this time of year to encourage the bees I'm not a huge fan of lawns; far too high maintenence for little reward :rolleyes:

Penny. x

Lotus-eater

I haven't mowed my lawn for about 6 or 7 weeks atm. it's been dry which helps, we have loads of flowers springing up, alot of red poppies which is lovely, loads of grass seed heads as well, I've been inspired by a neighbour that showed me his wildlife areas in his garden yesterday, he's just let the grass go and sown wildflowers. Although I have areas around the garden I just let go wild and nettles to come in, I haven't got a wild bit of lawn yet, I think that is about to change The bit around the new apple trees is about to become a wild meadow