{"id":78,"date":"2005-04-06T19:04:50","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T01:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=78"},"modified":"2005-04-06T19:04:50","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T01:04:50","slug":"clover-lawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/06\/clover-lawns\/","title":{"rendered":"Clover Lawns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did my first bit of yard work today and it got me thinking about something I was mulling over last summer:  Converting from a grass lawn into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holisticbirds.com\/HBN01\/june\/pages\/clover1.htm\">clover lawn<\/a>.  Doing a google search turned up the tidbit that <a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/lawns\/docs\/trends\/\">clover lawns are trendy this year<\/a>.  I guess clover lawns used to be an American tradition in the early 20th century, too.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/landscaping.about.com\/cs\/lawns\/a\/clover_lawns_3.htm\">benefits of clover lawns are numerous<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don't have to water (as much)<\/li>\n<li>Don't have to cut as much<\/li>\n<li>Is generally softer than grass<\/li>\n<li>Relatively pest free<\/li>\n<li>Don't have to fertilize<\/li>\n<li>Clover improves the soil by releasing nitrogen back into the soil<\/li>\n<li>Stays green longer<\/li>\n<li>Clover is aggressive and can grow dense enough to keep out weeds<\/li>\n<li>Resistant to dog urine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It all sounds great, but I doubt I would be able to just wait for the existing clover patches to take over my whole lawn as it might take a century or two.  Yep, it seems that I would still have to kill the existing weeds and overseed with clover to really get somewhere.  It's a shame because I'd like to do the least amount of work possible (aka \"none\").<\/p>\n<p>If this year, clover could be ultra-aggressive and take over the lawn, weeds, grass and all, I wouldn't mind.  Wouldn't mind at all...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did my first bit of yard work today and it got me thinking about something I was mulling over last summer: Converting from a grass lawn into a clover lawn. Doing a google search turned up the tidbit that clover lawns are trendy this year. I guess clover lawns used to be an American tradition [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}