My Clover Lawn

It's raining again, for once I'm glad.

Yesterday I shoveled 3 yards of dirt, today I shoveled a yard and a half. I laid it down, about 2 inches thick, all around the house in preparation for a clover lawn. I bought Dutch White clover seeds and a grass mixture made up of 50% Creeping Red Fescue, 25% Perennial Rye and 25% Kentucky blue grass. The grass shades the roots of the clover helping it to get established.

I mixed all the seeds together then put them in a shaker made by punching holes in the lid of a yogurt container. Clover seed is a very tiny. Grass seed is a bit bigger about the size and shape of a lettuce seed. I sprinkled the seeds all over the soil then sprayed water over the lot with my hand sprinkler. Of course as soon I was done the black clouds overhead let loose and it's been raining on and off ever since.