Hi im located in west Illinois and Im looking for some advice for the lawn at my house. The lawn is quite uneven and has some very noticeable dips here and there and lots of weeds. We would really like to ditch the grass all together and go with a clover lawn. This is our first home and we have no idea where to start. We figured maybe tilling after removing all the weeds is the way to go and then leveling it out and reseeding but I’m not sure if that’s the way to go. A local company in my area has quoted us $750 to do the work, so we’re also debating going that route. What do yall think? Is it worth the money/time that it’ll take.
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For the weed side, I’d probably weed whack it down to the dirt. Collect all of the cuttings and dump them in the yard waste bin if you have one. Then till the whole area, followed by raking up the root balls you can. A landscaping rake will help level it.
From there you could cover it with Ram Board Pro paper to suppress any weeds. If you go that route you’ll need to put some topsoil over that, maybe mixed with some compost. Then seed it with clover. That’ll make a really clean clover yard.
On the grassy area, if that is also uneven then you could just bring in more soil and try to level it as-is. Then seed with clover, which will eventually overtake whatever grass remains.