America’s biodiverse meadows of days gone by slowly gave way to French- and English-style turfgrass lawns. By the late 1800s, the neatly trimmed grass lawn had become a symbol of wealth. The ...

When the White Dutch seed market collapsed, Orville made a switch. The newly established Strachota Seed would no longer buy seed but, instead, supply seed to dairies and farmers throughout the region.

Clover seeds need to have contact with the soil to grow, so you can throw clover seed on the ground if the area is bare. If there is grass or other organic material on the lawn, you'll need to de ...

Instructions. Mix the clover seed with a filler like pelletized lime or clay cat litter to weigh it down and help it spread more evenly. Add the seed mixture to a rotary spreader.

Friedman said white clover used to be mixed in lawn seed when she was little, before it was considered a weed and pesticides skyrocketed. “We had clouds of butterflies everywhere,” Friedman said.

You might start with a clover and drought-tolerant grass seed mix of 80:20, and then alter your ratio as you see fit and based on the results. (Clover will naturally spread over time, so you may ...

Dutch Clover (Trifolium repens var. 5). Dutch clover is a smaller, more compact variety of white clover. It has smaller leaves and flowers than white clover, and forms a dense, low-growing carpet.

Growing a White Dutch Clover lawn will cut down on how often you pull out your lawnmower. It may only need a trim once or twice a year, as it will only grow to between 3 to 12 inches.

Johnson, a longtime Nebraska radio personality, said four years ago, he sprinkled his yard with Dutch Clover seed amongst the blades of fescue."It basically puts down a root system that maintains ...

Dutch fintech GoDutch, founded by serial entrepreneur Thomas Vles, has raised a pre-seed funding round of €1.2 million. Reputable founders of Dutch neobanks such as René Frijters and Mike de ...

Clover seed is cheap. Seed Ranch says you only need a quarter-pound of Dutch white clover seed for 1,000 square feet of lawn, and a pound of seed in its online store costs only $12.95.

After mowing my clover down to the ground, the slugs kept coming so I had to resort to a chemical solution and spread Sluggo pellets — a slug and snail bait that is non-toxic to pets and other ...