I am getting ready to plant white clover. Any hints or suggestions? For now, I am planting in my

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3. I planted crimson clover in August and September, then rototilled it under about a week ago

The clover got established and kept the annoying weeds from coming up this spring. It did its job. It looked very nice. The clover didn't get tangled up too badly in the tines.

The clover was about ankle high and I was able to mow it down easily with my battery powered push mower before tilling. So, my expectation is that you could replace the lawn with clover and be able to mow it when it gets high. I would really like a ground cover I did not have to cut eight times a month in May and June.

There is some trick to getting your preferred ground cover to grow in before the old grass and weed seeds germinate. Hopefully the clover will shadow it and the weed seedlings will be "smothered". With a prairie planting, one must rototill several times throughout one season before seeding in mid winter. Tricky

I am going to till up some lawn and plant buckwheat for a ground cover this year. I plan to hack it down once with a golf-club sickle, rake it up and compost it.