Clover all over my lawn...overnight!

[ACuriae]

I was doing pretty well with my lawn this year. I had an infestation of dollar weed early, but got rid of it with a little diligence. My lawn has been almost weed-free for nearly two months. Then today I wake up and I've got clover EVERYWHERE--front, back, sides--and it wasn't there yesterday, at least that I could see. Neither of my neighbors to each side seem to have it. JUST ME.

1) How is this possible? I swear it wasn't visible yesterday.
2) More importantly, what the hell do I do about it? Start pulling?

 

[austintex]

I'm sure the guy with nutsedge is jealous...

 

[BA93]

Pulling clover will get you nowhere. go find some post-emergent weed killer. then start using pre-emergement killer in the future.

 

[PipFunatUT]

i love the clover in my yard... super soft on the feet.

 

[gsoda3]

i spent 5 hours yesterday night and this morning digging out nutsedge. managed to clear about a 20 x 20 foot area in our garden and flowerbeds. i can't hardly type i'm so out of energy.

 

[El Sapo]

Rolling around in it is very good stress relief.

 

[wolfman]

Try using something called wipeout. I killed the clover out of my yard with it last year.

 

[bozo_casanova]

I cannot imagine why a person would kill clover.

Seriously- it pulls nitrogen out of the air and fixes it to your dirt, so you need less fetilizer. It smells nice and grows low. It's a great companion plant for most grass and has pretty little flowers. It feels nice on your feet and is nice for dogs and people to roll in.

If you kill your clover, your grass will deplete the nitrogen it depends on and won't be able to crowd out the johnson grass, nut sedge, etc.


Monoculture sucks on any scale. That's why God hates it so much and tells you so by blessing you with clover.

 

[K-Man]

poison is not the answer.

 

[Texanne]

I have clover and I like it. There is one clover patch, about a foot square, on the north side of my house that has lovely purple flowers growing in it. It's really pretty. Eventually my St. Augustine will choke it out, though.

 

[ACuriae]

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[Jellydonuts]

I would agree with Boso and not kill it, especially with a chemical product. If you want to eradicate over time you need to get some nitrogen in your lawn. Clover indicates a lack of nitrogen (as Boso stated clover can get it out of the air, so it grows in soils without it). I would recommend putting some feather meal, or cotton seed meal down and it will slowly go away.

 

[ACuriae]

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[HoosierHorn]

mow.

 

[bozo_casanova]

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[ballrific]

if you don't mow tall, make sure to take a blower to the "thick" spots of clipping after mowing b/c too much can suffocate your lawn sometimes...happened to me one summer.

 

[ACuriae]

I cut. It's harder, but I've noticed a difference in how healthy our lawn appears to be since we switched. And, no, we do not bag our clippings or use poison. Our lawn is actually the healthiest looking lawn on the block.