The yellow and white clover, along with the odd wild daisy, are blooming in my yard! So no mowing for another week or two.
I can sit in Grandma’s Hootch and drink tea while looking at pretty flowers and the lake. It reminds me of a little mountain valley.
All the while knowing that in 10 or twelve weeks it will all be covered in snow again.
That looks so peaceful. I hope you get to see a lot of bees too.
I got flowers around that the bees like better than the clover. So I don’t see them hitting those flowers very often. They like the wild roses better that grow around in the places I don’t/can’t mow.
Oh yeah the bees go nuts over my swarp rose.
Man, they do love those things don’t they.
All the while knowing that in 10 or twelve weeks it will all be covered in snow again.
Jeez, just how far north are you?!
That was emotional damage I wasn’t prepared for lmao
Far enough. The last frost is often in June and the first killing frost mid-September and snowfall by October. By November temperatures are single digits Fahrenheit overnights and sometimes the highs for the daytime.
It’s a rollercoaster for weather. But I’m dumb enough to like it.
I still mow/mulch my clover every two weeks, it “trains” it to a manageable height and help return the nitrogen to the soil.
I mow it enough that the clover doesn’t get much taller than it is right now. So I can easily enjoy the pretty flowers for several weeks.
I often do you mow then? I mow every 2 weeks and the grass is barely 6” long.
Water every 2 days, fertilize when needed, but the clover does a good job of that.
Depending on the year, once a week over June, then once a week and a half or so in July, and then every couple of weeks in August and By September mowing is done. I don’t water or fertilize. A mix clover, alfalfa, and grasses is a tough yard cover and requires little care.
You say requires little care and you’re mowing it twice as often.
I just mow every 2 weeks from middle of May to Sept. and that’s only because the city would complain that it’s too long.
I have June grass seeded into the mix. During the month of June it grows fast. And since I live on a hillside, June is often the wettest month and I need that fast growth to hold the soil and prevent heavy washing. As June passes I need to mow less and less. This year I have only needed to mow twice so far, and I will need to mow less and less as summer moves into the dry part of the year and the grasses will go dormant.
Did you plant any clover seeds or did it “just happen”?
I have some clover, but I want it to take over my yard more.
I planted the clover about 17 years ago. So it’s and old stand and is getting thinner as time goes by.
Here’s my weed patch - bird’s foot trefoil and crown vetch. I mow as infrequently as possible so this kind of stuff crops up and I leave it alone. Bees love it and it looks great (to me anyway).
Pretty colors!
