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Taurothar t1_je6p7qe wrote

Reply to comment by Ok_Repair_92 in Best lawn service? by dingdingyo

Here's a tip for all you green lawn lovers, just plant some fucking clover and get over it. It re-balances the nitrogen in the lawn on its own while not growing super tall, especially if you get a microclover seed. No need to fertilize every year and looks far better in drought as well without needing to water ever.

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croclogic t1_je7zuir wrote

Wife pitched this idea to me this week and I was like, you want me to plant… my sworn enemy?

Did a little reading and I’m all in. Fuck mowing every week, fuck fertilizer and watering. I get that it’s not for everyone and I do love a traditional grass yard but I’m willing to try it.

Wife has never been stung by a bee either, so I figure she can pop that cherry with a shitwhack of clover everywhere.

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twicelife_real t1_je85os0 wrote

This! Clover was not considered a weed, and was known to be valuable in lawns/pastures. But the chemical companies couldn’t figure out how to make a weed killer that didn’t also kill clover, so they simply branded clover a weed. We need to get past this idea that a nice green grass lawn is a good thing. They are terrible for the environment. We have a lawn that requires no water, lime, fertilizer, or herbicides. In the spring it’s a beautiful mixture of cool season grass and flowers (violets, dandelion, etc). In early summer the clover takes off and by July when things heat up, the clover and warm season grasses start to take over. By mid fall, everything is dormant but the cool season grasses. The lawn is pretty much always green from April to December, is always nice to walk on, and only needs to be mowed once a week at most.

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