In article , Dan S. MacAbre wrote:
Ian wrote:

Am not much of a gardener , but feel there must be a better way, am looking
for a grass alternative for a shared back garden. The area is damp and the
soil is subsoil pure clay, currently there are the remains of a lawn which
is loosing to sphagnum moss , looking for something that gives ground cover,
low maintenance could be played on by children

I've read that you can use white clover. No idea what it looks like in
winter, though.

Definitely not. It's tall-growing, and doesn't like being walked on.
In context, the simplest thing is just to mow it, and let what weeds
survive take over. Quite a lot of the most pernicious lawn weeds
actually make very good lawn plants. The smaller clovers, vetches,
self-heal, eyebright, daisies, even plantain. Many of them won't
like the soil, but the ones that will, will take over.

Yeah, it's not According To The Book - but it works, as well as
anything else will in such conditions.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.