| Clover Trifolium |
Clover is also known as Trefoil.
| This little beauty can be in salads raw, or you can sauté them. The flowers can make tea if dried or decorated in puddings and desserts, and they can be used to form part of your lawn, as they are soft underfoot, and the bees love them too. Just be aware that clover is quite invasive. You can grow some clover before turning your raised beds in for the winter months, digging into the soil, and covering them. Clover also provides nitrogen to the ground and is great as a replacement fertilizer, so there is no need for artificial fertilizers when clover is growing. Clover growing can also help reduce soil compaction. Clover also has another beauty: It can act as a form of ‘Living Mulch,’ which can benefit some gardeners by reducing weed growth. If carefully considered in the gardening layout, savvy gardeners could easily incorporate clovers as a pathway between their crop lines. |
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There is a pink variety too, I believe…
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Hey Jaye, yes, the reddy pink clover 🙂
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I have a black leaved clover which looks amazing…
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Oh yes l have seen that a few times also Jaye, very pretty 🙂
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It’s not as hardy as the green variety though…
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Nice post, Rory. I didn’t know clover was edible. 😉
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We mix clover and grass seed for area we have turned into lawn. It’s soft to walk on and pollinator friendly. In fact, I love that if you mow it, it will flower again. So it will provide food for bees all summer long. Although it grows good with grass it does tend to choke out other weeds.
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Hi Ruth 🙂
Yes all the clovers can be invasive. But they are wonderfully soft when in the lawn.
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