Outsidepride Perennial White MiniClover Seed - 5 lb. Dwarf, Small-Leaved, Drought & Wear-Tolerant Micro Clover Seeds for Lawn, Ideal Low-Maintenance & Easy to Grow Ground Cover Seeds for Home Yard

JULY 2019 UPDATE: We haven’t watered or put any chemicals on our lawn! I have uploaded a picture showing our clover mix lawn and what a pretty shade of green it is compared to the neighbors grass lawn. We still need to mow once a week, but now there are hardly any clover flowers. The grass still dies when the dogs pee on it, but the clover does not. I’m super curious to see what happens during the dryer months of the summer when the lawns all turn brown. I just moved my star rating from four to five stars. This really is one of the best decisions that we have ever made. I will update again during the drought months. JUNE 2019 Update: We LOVE our lawn! Yes, we are getting little white flowers, but we can mow them away. As of right now, we have not yet trained it to stay short. We are mowing as often as a regular lawn. BUT, the dog pee doesn’t kill this. The dog pee still kills the grass. We haven’t watered it once yet. We have little to NO other weeds. But that being said, I bought a weeding tool in early spring and hand popped out all the dandelions, crab/Johnson grass and broad leaf weeds, they haven’t come back. I will update again during the drought months. UPDATE March 9, 2019. The third picture you see is our lawn now. We are very happy with our decision to go green and stop pouring chemicals on our lawn. I must say that our lawn is way greener than any of our neighbors lawns. We bought another bag, but haven’t put it down yet. We are going to use it in a few spots that were missed last year. My husband told me to buy it before they ran out, so I did. So far we are just using this in our backyard where our puppies play and go potty. I will keep updating. I’m waiting for the summer drought before moving it up to five stars, but as of now I’m completely happy. We spent $3,000 for sod last May that all died despite a $400 water bill. Since we have two new puppies, we decided not to treat it with chemicals. Our last dog died of cancer at age six, so we refuse to put down chemical fertilizers. Then my husband told me about clover and I said, “absolutely not!” He asked me to just read the article and then think about it. After reading it, I agreed it would be the best way to have a green lawn and still be healthy for our puppies and the environment. In September we planted one five pound bag along of clover with two 40 pound bags of grass seed in our back yard which is about 75 wide by 75 deep and covered it with some tacky straw. The grass came up right away, but petered out. The clover started coming up within five days, but stayed small and sparse for about six weeks. Now it’s November and we have had a couple of freezes and it’s a pretty green. The neighbors lawns have all started to die off, as well as the field behind us. I will post pictures of the color difference. I look forward to seeing what will happen this winter and next spring as well as the summer drought. I will keep this updated, mainly because the older I get the less I remember, so I will be able to look back on this and know whether or not to buy some more. The first picture shows our lawn up close with zero chemicals and the neighbors lawn on the other side of the fence with his “professional “ lawn care. The second picture shows the field behind us has all died off. This past summer, our new sod was as brown as that field. What you see in our lawn is 95 percent clover and very little grass. In fact, the brown you see is the grass. FOR REFERENCE: We live in upper middle Tennessee where the “soil” is mostly red clay.

Ive bought these a few times and they work so well. Our lawn is a combo of grass and clover, so the clover helps fix the nitrogen in the soil and the grass is soft. Works well to prevent bad weeds like foxtails since they outcompete, and what works well in shade doesnt always work as well in sun- this helps fill in the spots that regular grass struggles.

I purchase two of these bags on march 18th & march 20th & spread them on the 20th of march. I was excited at first to see a small green mist across the bare spot of my lawn within 3-4 days. Fast forward to 2 weeks later, today, April 1st, those green sprouts I THOUGHT were clovers quickly turned into different weeds. I have no idea what this could possibly even be. Safe to say I am HIGHLY frustrated and disappointed & almost even angered that I saw not even a single sprout of clover. Literally all weeds. I did purchase another bag 2 days ago & poked some more holes in empty spots and poured clover seeds in the holes HOPING something pops up in place of these giant carpets of weeds. atm I literally wasted all my time, money & energy on this product and got a slap of weeds in my face.

Dateline: A Suburban Lawn, a Former Battlefield of Drought and Despair. There is a tyranny that rules the suburbs. A relentless, green despot that demands constant tribute. I speak of the traditional grass lawn. In times of drought, it is a thirsty, brown-patched monument to failure. In times of rain, it is a raging beast that demands you drag out the mower every four days to beat it back into submission. It is a source of endless, soul-crushing labor. I decided to secede from the union. My weapon of choice: a two-pound bag of Outsidepride Perennial White MiniClover Seed. My theatre of war: the sun-scorched, dead patches of my yard, casualties of last year's brutal heat. My methods were a strange hybrid of laziness and high-tech ingenuity. There would be no back-breaking tilling, no raking, no ceremonial preparation of the soil. That is for fools and masochists. Instead, I fired up my electric leaf blower, attached a strange, 3D-printed seed-spreading nozzle I had churned out on a whim, and proceeded to blast the tiny clover seeds across the blighted landscape. It was a five-minute blitzkrieg, a chaotic but strangely effective act of agricultural rebellion. And then I waited, expecting very little. I had, after all, shown a profound disrespect for the accepted rituals of lawn care. But a week later, it began. Tiny, green sprouts, little twin-leaved emblems of hope, began to pop up through the scorched earth. The seeds had taken root. The rebellion was alive. Slowly but surely, the patches are filling in, a low-lying, green carpet that asks for nothing. It mocks the drought. It scoffs at the need for constant mowing. It is a quiet, beautiful, and profoundly effective solution to the problem of the high-maintenance lawn. Now, we must speak of the cost of this revolution. And the cost, my friends, is high. This is not your grandfather's cheap bag of cattle-feed clover from the local farm co-op. No, this is boutique, "MiniClover." And you will pay a steep, almost insulting premium for the privilege of its dwarfed leaves and chic, low-growing profile. The price tag on this two-pound bag is enough to make a man question his commitment to the cause. So there you have it. The product is a five-star champion of low-maintenance living. It works with a shocking efficiency, even when planted with a profound and deliberate lack of effort. But the price is a one-star shakedown. It is an extremely expensive bag of seed. But for the freedom it buys—freedom from the mower, freedom from the sprinkler, freedom from the tyranny of the perfect, green lawn—it’s a price I was willing to pay. Once.

Seeds were packed neatly in its package. I started spreading the seeds in several bald spots in my lawn under heavy rain. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw they started sprouting after just 3 days. I took several pictures, but will update them as plants keep growing. They are starting to look pretty. I'm amazed with the seeds' quality and the results.

Seeds arrived sooner than expected. I haven't had growth yet as I just received the seeds. There are tons of seeds, and I'm excited about all the benefits of micro-clover: drought-tolerant, nitro-fixing, no-mow required, lawn replacement. Our new build is on a steep slope that would make mowing impossible. The top soil was removed in excavation, so I'm hoping to sow the clover as ground cover and not have to mow. Im not replacing existing grass. But the micro-clover sounds so easy and perfect for what I'm looking for. Edit: the sample seeds i buried mid-March (zone 6/7) germinated in my clay soil in about a week. Even some of the broadcast seed is starting to germinate. Germination rates seem very good.

Good germination rate, growth well, dense, looks healthy, happy with the item. Mixed with the grass seeds and seeded the back yard.

We planted this clover seed over three weeks ago and have seen no evidence of growth. It was expensive so we had hoped that it would grow and tested it on our lawn which was sparse in some areas. The reason we purchased this particular clover seed was to fill in areas on our lawn where we are having difficulties with growing grass. However having said that, grass seed seems to still be the better alternative and a lot cheaper. Very disappointed in the product. Too bad they don't offer a money back guarantee.

When I direct sowed in my lawn initially (mid April) germination was slow and low percentage. It was about two weeks before I could see tiny clovers. As a test, I planted some indoors in a pot by a sunny window. Fewer than half germinated. But in a second test, started in late April with fresh potting mix, I have had a much better germination rate. At least 90%. The photo shows how the shoots look after 5 days. I wish it weren’t so expensive

I got sick and tired of a more weed than grass front lawn. Late last summer I covered the entire area with black plastic to kill everything and this spring I started slowly peeling the plastic back in sections. I added some top soil to the uncovered section and spread some of the clover seeds on top. Within a few days of watering they began to sprout. Kept repeating that until the entire area was seeded. I now have a lovely thick green "lawn" and the bunnies are loving it too :) I'll buy a few more bags to seed the back lawn where the grass refuses to grow and the weeds take over. Very happy with this.