This plant is getting everywhere. Is there a way to get rid of it without pesticides? Or are Pepe letting this grow these days for the natural lawn approach? What is it?
by Zammo1975
This plant is getting everywhere. Is there a way to get rid of it without pesticides? Or are Pepe letting this grow these days for the natural lawn approach? What is it?
by Zammo1975
23 Comments
Cool, free clover lawn!
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Looks like clover. It’s actually a pretty useful plant in small quantities because it has nodules in its roots that contain microbes that fix nitrogen from the atmosphere and pull it into the soil in a form usable to other plants. In those quantities I can see it would be a pest though.
Clover! It has deeper roots than grass which means it won’t go brown during hot dry summer weather.
people pay good money for clover seeds to add to/replace their lawn. I *personally* would consider it a win.
Fuck grass and manicured lawns, keep the clover. Healthier, vibrant, green, nitrogen fixing, flowering, better for the soil and nature if you leave it to do its thing.
Clover lawn, I’ve got one, they’re great 👍
Grass is way overrated imo. It does nothing for the environment, and is stupidly needy!
Clover is amazing, and it’s pretty.
Wow youre so lucky people try so hard for a clover lawn im actually going to try myself next year.
It’s clover. It’s fantastic for a lawn if mown in (adds nitrogen back) or left to flower it’s spectacular and good for bees. Its prevalence is a result of the soil/drainage condition and the general weakness of your grass growth. You won’t get rid of it using a pesticide-that’s for insects. You could kill it with a targeted weed killer. But it will keep coming back unless you fix the underlying issues.
Keep it. Less work than removing it. More durable. Stays green longer during drought. Adds flowers. A lawn is just the flat green bit in your garden. Doesn’t have to be grass…
I’m actually actively trying to achieve what’s happening here
I’ve seeded clover at the front of my house, the back is a bit like this in places, I’m encouraging it. I do want some grass at the back but I’m not getting rid of clover
It is evergreen and looks a lot better in drought, in case all of these “it’s clover, you lucky duck” comments aren’t motivating enough!
Thats clover. It’s a legume that locks nitrogen from the air and can make it available to other plants.
Ever heard of th phrase rolling in clover? That comes from the introduction of clover into grazing pastures which improved arable grazing
Clover! Keep it.
My lawn is now mainly clover (naturally established) and it’s awesome. Low effort, it flowers which the bees absolutely love, and didn’t turn brown in the drought that we had this summer!
Thanks everyone
Nice clover! I’m planning to sow a bunch next spring, it’s way nicer than lawn.
That’s creeping buttercup, good luck getting rid of it.
Clover fixes nitrogen. Keep it. Grass sucks. Look up Crime pays but Botany doesn’t. Kill yer lawn.
I’ve just deliberately sown a whole lot of this into my lawn to try and make it prettier and more biodiverse 😅
I just bought a big box of clover seeds for this very thing.
Let it happen