Use the one-third rule for cutting your lawn : never remove more than one-third of the leaf blade in a single cutting. Grass length effects root depth. Longer grass produces longer roots, making it more resistant to weeds and more difficult for clover roots to take over.
Choose a grass species or a blend appropriate for your climate and growing conditions. All grass seed must include an analysis that indicates the percent of weed seeds present.
Choose high-quality seed with little or no weed seeds. When overseeding, use four 4 parts Milorganite to one 1 part grass seed by weight and distribute using a spreader. By using our website you are consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with our cookie policy. What is Clover? TruGreen does not offer natural weed control, but with its TruNatural Lawn Care Plan, it offers natural fertilization, which can keep clover from growing in the first place. To get a free quote, call or fill out this easy form.
There are several reasons you may want to keep clover in your lawn. Due to its symbiotic relationship with bacteria, clover acts as a natural fertilizer.
Clover gets its nitrogen from the air and releases it into the soil. Another benefit? Clover outcompetes other weeds. So instead of something unwanted and unsightly, you could have clover. You can control fertilizer with proper fertilization, mowing high, applying corn gluten meal or a vinegar solution, hand-pulling it, depriving it of oxygen and sunlight, hitting it with an organic pre-emergent herbicide, or using a traditional herbicide. Clover can take over your lawn in the right conditions—low grass, the wrong soil pH, compacted soil, and poor nitrogen levels are excellent growing conditions for clover.
White or Dutch clover Trifolium repens is comparatively large-leaved and has an open habit of growth. The flowers are white or pink. Lesser yellow trefoil Trifolium dubium , a member of the clover family, is a small-leaved, procumbent annual weed. It forms a flattened, roughly circular mat of interlaced thin wiry stems, with tiny trifoliate leaves. Many small multiple heads of pale yellow flowers are produced throughout the summer months. Other related species include hare's foot T. White or Dutch clover Trifolium repens may be encountered on all types of soil but is more commonly found on medium to heavy alkaline soils.
Its roots form readily along the creeping, spreading stems. Lesser yellow trefoil Trifolium dubium is usually most troublesome on lighter, sandy soils, particularly where the grass is weak through lack of regular feeding. It forms a deeply penetrating tap root, seeds freely and if scattered plants are ignored, large colonies quickly form.
Lotus corniculatus birds foot trefoil , Medicago lupulina black medick , Trifolium arvense hare's foot and Trifolium micranthum slender trefoil spread mostly by seed. First, consider whether this can be done using non-chemical means such as digging out and, only where these are not feasible, look to using a weedkiller.
The RHS believes that avoiding pests, diseases and weeds by good practice in cultivation methods, cultivar selection, garden hygiene and encouraging or introducing natural enemies, should be the first line of control. If chemical controls are used, they should be used only in a minimal and highly targeted manner. White or Dutch clover Trifolium repens is relatively susceptible to dicamba, and mecoprop-P e. Lesser yellow trefoil Trifolium dubium , however, shows strong resistance to the majority of lawn herbicides.
Products containing fluroxypyr Weedol Lawn Weedkiller and Weedol Lawn Weedkiller Ready to Use are particularly effective at controlling clovers, including the more persistent species such as Trifolium dubium. The other clover-like species occasionally encountered as lawn weeds, including Lotus corniculatus birds foot trefoil , Medicago lupulina black medick , Trifolium arvense hare's foot and Trifolium micranthum slender trefoil are similar to Trifolium dubium in their resistance to lawn weedkillers and the same control measures apply.
Applications after August are increasingly less effective and as the majority of clovers found in lawns self-seed freely, further applications the following spring will inevitably be required. Do not add the first lawn clippings after application of a lawn weedkiller to the compost heap. To avoid possible contamination of compost, do not collect the clippings at all but mow frequently and allow the short clippings to remain on the surface of the lawn.
Corn gluten is a natural herbicide that may be effective in killing this grass. Use the powder and sprinkle it on the clover. Drizzle on the corn gluten once applied and allow the area to dry for 2 to 3 days for the product to react.
You can reapply it after weeks if the clover is still present on your lawn. Place a plastic garbage bag or tarp over the plant and secure the edges with stones. Deprive the clover of sunlight and oxygen for a few weeks in order to kill it.
This solution is only applicable if the clover occupies a large area of?? This method ensures the proper maintenance of your lawn and therefore prevents weeds such as clovers from growing there. Fertilizing the lawn once a year in the spring helps keep it healthy and less vulnerable to weeds. Be sure to mow your lawn when needed and make sure the grass is higher than clovers. It is best to set your mower at a height of cm to prevent the grass from being cut too short. This way, the grass will eventually dominate and smother the clover, blocking the sunlight that nourishes it.
Water your lawn once or twice a week to prevent the growth of clovers. When the lawn in your garden has the necessary nutrients, weeds cannot grow there.
0コメント