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4. just throw it in
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 08:21 AM
Apr 2012

I just throw it in the lawn. That's what I do in spring.

If grandpa were older, he'd remember when clover was a standard part of grass seed mixtures, since it fixes nitrogen. Then Scotts etc decided they could declare it a weed and sell more herbicide.

I also threw it in an area last fall which had been newly excavated and filled with loam (former gravel parking lot.) I thought it had died over winter, but now it's growing. I have no grass in that area, so it's easier to see what the clover does over winter. I wonder what it will do next winter when it's more established.

You can get white clover seed coated in an inoculant which makes it more likely to take.

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