
Clover Lawn
My front lawn is particularly difficult, but not atypical of front lawns (or sometimes back lawns) in Halifax.
It was established on shallow soil, there are tree roots through it and from late May on it is shaded by Norway Maple.
Every now and then the city digs part of it up for water and sewer stuff or sidewalsk and replaces the old topsoil with sandy “manufactured topsoil” which makes it even more droughty.
I will get around to diversifying the area with garden beds, but in the meantime, if it’s looking particularly ratty in the spring, I spread clover on it in April or early May.
A pound of Dutch white clover seed costs about 13$ at Halifax Seed; that’s enough, they say, for about 1500 sq ft of lawn.
The big challenge is how to spread the very small seed evenly and not too heavily.
Here’s my recipe:
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