Planting Dutch Clover.

[Southern Gardener]

I posted on another thread that I'll be getting honeybees in June (my first hive) and I've been researching plants that bees love and white clover seems to be at the top of their list. I also have a lot of basil coming up in my herb garden and I know they love the flowers on them. Anyway, I went to the feed store and bought a big bag of clover seed and want to sow it on my existing lawn. Do I need to till up the grass/weeds and then plant the clover seeds or can I just throw out the seed and keep it watered? I do have a couple of small patches growing right now, but the drought last summer killed most of it off.

 

[thistlebloom]

You don't have to kill your lawn down Joan. Just give it a good hard raking, broadcast the clover and cover with a thin layer of compost, or straw or shredded leaves, and keep watered until the clover comes up.

Clover used to be an ingredient in lawn mixes until people decided they wanted lawns that looked like putting greens.
It fixes nitrogen, is more drought tolerant than grass, greens up first and stays green later than grass. And the bees love it! What more could you ask?

 

[Southern Gardener]

You don't have to kill your lawn down Joan. Just give it a good hard raking, broadcast the clover and cover with a thin layer of compost, or straw or shredded leaves, and keep watered until the clover comes up.

Clover used to be an ingredient in lawn mixes until people decided they wanted lawns that looked like putting greens.
It fixes nitrogen, is more drought tolerant than grass, greens up first and stays green later than grass. And the bees love it! What more could you ask?

Great Thistle! Thanks! I have a very fond memory of clover when I was a kid. We had a huge patch at home and my sisters and I would lay right in the middle of it and listen to the bees buzzing around us and we would watch the fluffy white clouds in the sky and make up images from the clouds - of course we also make clover necklaces! row

 

[thistlebloom]

Sweet memories Joan