hugh wrote:

In message , Howard
Neil writes

Japmark wrote:

This year I have been overrun with clover in the lawn.


You are fortunate. The clover will fix nitrogen from the air and save
you from having to apply fertilizer.

The benefit to the grass is minimal.

That is not the experience of livestock farmers who deliberately sow
clover in their grass fields. See:-

http://www.fao.org/docrep/V9968E/v9968e06.htm
http://www.fencepost.com/dairy/exper...ite_Clover.xml
http://www.dpw.wageningen-ur.nl/biob/EDUCAT/msc302.htm

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Howard Neil