I’ve heard they’re better for pollinators, are more drought resistant, and are easier to maintain.
It’s hard to see a downside.
Has anyone here made the change? How’d it go?
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Consider adding dandelions with your clover. They’re pretty and if you harvest the leaves (similar to arugula) and flowers (tea, salad, even wine) they are quite controllable and you save money at the grocery store.
We get a lot of dandelions here anyway so they’d probably end up mingling whether intentional or not - Now I did hear a while ago that all the parts of the dandelion are edible, and that the flowers are delicious fried, but I’m a little afraid of eating things from the lawn because the neighbourhood has a lot of roaming cats and they… use… my garden frequently, which puts me off nibbling on them.
I was thinking of intentionally growing them in a raised planter though.
I just found out the other day that there are colors other than yellow, i saw seeds for pink and also white dandelions the other day on a seed site
Inadvertently, yes. I love it, and highly recommend it.
We sort of had this happen but I think last year I helped it develop a lot more. Last year I mowed around the clover patches and left a number of clover “islands.” The bees of course loved it. This year there is so much clover that the clover island would be most of the backyard. I’m interested in how the clover will do through the summer as the grass has been scorched the last few years.
