Ed,   The information on the Web Site, thesustainablelawn  is excellent and I really like the pictures to help explain everything.  I am pleased to see that my lack of lawn manicuring is a good thing, as I never water my lawn using  potable drinking water and only mow the Lawn when necessary.

Question: I love The Creeping Low Clover Lawn and wonder if I can over seed my lawn with the Creeping  Low Growing Clover without bringing in more top soil. I am looking for the least expensive way.                                                                                                                                              Victoria Ades,   Calgary, AB.

Answer: Hi Vicky,  In terms of Mowing The Lawn, it is better to delay or procrastinate. It is not a hospital floor or does not have be manicured. It is not a Golf or Bowling Green for  Sports or  Recreational Use ! The reason being on many occasions the lawn is cut too short, too often, especially in the hot weather of summer. The result is when the lawn is cut too short or scalped, it suffers severely, struggles to survive, turns yellow & brown leaving week & bare spots where dandelion seeds, on light floating parachutes, easily find bare soil to settle on & become established. Many people take Vacation in the summer months. The lawn needs to be resilient, self-sustaining with low maintenance, particularly  under these circumstances.

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Creeping Low Clover As A Low Maintenance, Non Polluting Green Sustainable Lawn

 

You are definitely on the right track with delaying the mowing, not manicuring the lawn & investigating the incorporation of Creeping Low  Clover into the unstable Grass Monoculture Lawn. The Creeping Low Clover  feeds the soil & grass so additional fertilizer is not needed. The Creeping Clover is low growing, does not need frequent mowing & with low maintenance, is Non-Polluting. Congratulations on Proceeding To Develop A  “Sustainable Lawn”  with & Emphasizing Creeping Low Clover ! 

To obtain Creeping Low Clover in the Unstable Grass Monoculture lawn by the least expensive way, extra top soil is not needed. The Creeping Low Clover/ White Dutch Clover is sold in small packages that fits in the palm of the hand. One or two packages would do most neighbourhood or urban lawns. The Clover Seed can be mixed in a pail of dry sand, when seeding, to obtain a uniform distribution of the Clover Seed on the Lawn.

Seeding Creeping Low Clover can be done in the late summer, early fall after the hot dry weather of summer when seasonal rains are more prevalent or in the late fall just before the ground freezes or becomes covered with snow, which ever comes first, called Dormant Seeding.

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Creeping Low Juniper Shrub With White Berries As A Low Maintenance, Non Polluting Ever Green Sustainable Ground Cover, Especially Useful On The Slope

If seeding is done in the growing season after the snow melt in the spring, it can be done just before a substantial rain to lodge the seeds downwards to come in contact with the top soil. Seeding just before or during the hot summer weather is risky & can be avoided. Canadian Tire & the Farmers Coop Outlet handles The Creeping Low Growing White Clover Seed in our Community of Newfoundland & Labrador.

All The Best & Good Luck in the establishment of your Sustainable Lawn & Garden Activities !

Ed Kayler  PAg.  Ecological Horticulturist For The Environment