What is it called when your yard is made entirely of clovers instead of grass?

Question

It is an actual way to have a lawn... it isn't just letting it grow wild with flowers and other stuff... it is completely clovers. It actually looks very nice and uniform and it takes a lot more care than grass. My grandpa used to have this sort of lawn and I know there's a name, but I can't remember what it is.

Answer 1

weeds. If you want grass and it is all clover....start with weed killer, but get ready to sew seed unless you want bare dirt!

Answer 2

its called look for a four leaf clover!!!!!!! =]

Answer 3

groundcover

Answer 4

best answer is renatar

Answer 5

hillbilly?

Answer 6

You might be a redneck...

Answer 7

Weeds

Answer 8

I am not sure what type of clover you have? But the kind with the yellow flowers my grand kids call wild pickles. They eat the flower and the clover.

In fact when I went to the farmers market, one of the sellers put this type of clover in with her lettuce, along with some white radishes, and got a bigger price for the combo than the bags of plain lettuce.

Answer 9

Hours of entertainment!! Try to find 4-leafed ones.

Answer 10

People are amazing... Their answers are so naive. Anyway, I am not sure what the actual name is,  but many people in the 50's used to mix grass with clover, or just use clover. This is because clover does something very beneficial for the soil, which is "fixing" nitrogen. All plants need nitrogen for growth, but nitrogen is "mobile" in soil, which means it can leach out with rain, etc. Clover, and some other plants, fix the nitrogen so it remains in the soil, which means that supplemental fertilizers are not required. Many farmers plant cover crops of clover in off seasons to cheaply and naturally increase the nitrogen levels of their soil. Secondly, clovers produce flowers in summer, which are pollinated by bees. Bees are very important for vegetable and plant pollination. No bees - no veg, no food, goodbye world. Grass does not produce anything worthwhile, and does not sustain many lifeforms. Clover is much more beneficial in this respect. Grass also requires much work and fuss, from cutting to fertilizing to insecticides and herbicides. Grass is environmentally unfriendly in this regard, because cutting requires gasoline or electricity, and all the chemicals required for the "perfect" lawn are applied by any person, be it a professional or a beer-swilling half-wit who had too much sun and who won't read the directions on safe application. All excess chemicals leach right through the soil and subsoil and into the water table. Then it goes right into your well (if you have one), or into the public water supply. So then the public water works has to filter out this garbage, but they don't get all of it usually, and then you turn on your tap and drink minute amounts of it, all the time. And taxpayers have to foot the bill for all the lovely tests and new equipment to get rid of the chemicals they put there in the first place. But I digress, and I am sorry. Basically, clover is a better solution. Anyone can have grass, and a lot of people do. It's not expensive or interesting at all. Even rednecks have lawns (gasp)!

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Answer 11

It's called time to dig it up and put down new grass seed.

Answer 12

My lawn?

Answer 13

Cloverfield

Answer 14

Are you sure it isn't dichondra?

http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/dio...

It is grown quite frequently for lawns instead of grass in California it doesn't need mowing just pull out the grass and weeds....Although some people consider it a weed.

The UC Guide to Healthy Lawns

Dichondra is a warm-season perennial ground cover,

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/TOOLS/TURF/TU...

Or maybe I'm just one of those naive persons or maybe just stupid!

Answer 15

class clover/grass

Answer 16

The Luck of the Irish!!  

(Be careful not to step on any Leprechauns!)

Just a little levity, hoping to bring you a smile!  

Please don't think me stupid, naive, or redneck, for I'm none of these.

Answer 17

Cloverfield?

Answer 18

"living carpet"?....... whatever else you call it, smart is what it is!!...... as we 'go green' this is a great choice to replace that needy, weedy lawn grass.... the day is coming when that green carpet of plain old grass will be the reason your neighbors point at you and shun you!!!.... *smile*......

Answer 19

I would love to just sit on your 'lawn' and look for 4 leaf clovers all day.