Alan Gould wrote in message ...
In article , Japmark
writes
This year I have been overrun with clover in the lawn.
What is the best way to get rid?

Clover is a natural companion plant to grass and it enjoys the same
management as grass. As others have already pointed out, clover releases
nitrogen into the soil each time it is cut off. Our lawn consists of
about 70 percent grass, 20 percent clover and 10 percent wild plants of
types which thrive in lawn management. That gives us a very suitable
family leisure and recreational area, it also acts as a wildlife haven
when we are not using it. We are very happy with it.

IMHO the notion of a 100 percent fine grass lawn is an illusion put out
by sellers of commercial lawn care preparations. It is seldom achieved
in reality, even by professional green-keepers.

This is absolutely sound. We've been conned into thinking there's
something desirable about a pure grass lawn, when in fact it takes
only a small shift in attitude to see one as a rather sterile expanse
of "green concrete". I think a daisy-free lawn, for example, is
depressing.

But in the garden there is always a but: near the house it's perfectly
reasonable to want no bare patches where herbaceous plants have died
back for the winter; and to get the full wildflower effect for
ourselves and wildlife, some areas at least will have to be allowed to
blow, which inevitably means scruffiness later on. So I have some
sympathy with a moderately tidy-minded approach, especially in a
typical small garden, or a lawn open to the street.

Mike.