How do I remove clover from my lawn?

Question

It's taken over nearly a quarter of the lawn and is spreading rapidly! I'd like to know if there is a cheap, safe and efficient way to get rid of it.

forgot to add that I don't want to damage the lawn in any way... like is there something I can just sprinkle over??? I'm in UK btw. Like the idea of the iced tea but I'm too lazy to use the scissors lol!

Thanks everyone for your advice. After thinking on it a couple of days I've decided to leave the clover and let it spread. I've even taken to shaking the seeds all over the rest of the lawn. It's going to look really pretty and be soft for sunbathing on. Now I can't decide on the best answer so I'm throwing this one open to the public. Good luck all who answered.... And thankyou again!!

Answer 1

On your hands and knees with a pair of scissors and a tall glass of iced tea.

Answer 2

I think that "Weed and Feed" will eradicate the clover in your lawn (check before you buy it) If not, there is probably another product in a garden centre that would do it.

I love the answers you have received! The people who answer questions about gardening on YA seem to be especially genuine and helpful.

I am quite envious of you for having clover on your lawn, as I think that would look so much nicer than my lawn at the moment. I am having problems with (my own) cats...they can't resist doing their business on my lawn and it has left brown patches everywhere.

If you are really lazy, I think I would suggest, like Grandma, that you leave it as it is. Clover is green and springy and strong and you won't have to mow as often.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

There are products called weed and feed. It is a granule form you simply sprinkle on and water it in. Fertilome or greenlite are good brands but there are many. It feeds your grass while killing weeds. You will have to repeat it through the season to gain control and more than likely you will have to do it each year. But it is easy enough to use.
Clover will take over for the most part. Some including myself have a lawn of almost all clover. I still have to mow but just at the level of the clover it is green and soft, and believe it or not they sell clover just for lawns.
Good luck and God Bless
Grandma

Answer 4

Hi Sharry. I am not sure why no one has mentioned it yet but from my experience fighting clovers that invested my lawn i found that when i used a lquid weed herbicide (i used Weed-Out) which was cheap ($8 Canadian and i onnly need 2 bottles to cover my 6000 sq feet front lawn) it virtually wiped all traces of this pest from my lawn. Cant say how long it took since i never bothered checking for 4 weeks. But when i did mow my lawn i couldn't find a single one growing. I am still amazed that it worked so well. I found that this bottle also included dicamba which stops newly germinating weed seeds from taking form.

Answer 5

Clover is really good for the lawn. Helps provide oxygen. It's only around a few months.

Answer 6

Scotts Weed and Feed works great for lawns. Use it a couple times a year, all your weeds will slowly but surely disappear. If you want it gone right away, use Ortho's weed spray products. After a few days it will start drying and curling up and it won't hurt your grass. Let it keep on dying, what's left of the plant will carry the rest of the poison to the roots.

Answer 7

Look for the 4 leaved clover first then mow the rest. Go to the garden centre and ask if they have any kind of clover remover

Answer 8

The clover you can get rid of with a good weed and feed like Scott's or Green thumb. As for the crabgrass, well it's a grass any chemical you use will kill the rest of the grass also. Scott's make a crab grass preventer that you spread in early spring when the crabgrass seed is starting to germinate. that's the best time to get rid of it. Halts also has a crabgrass preventer.

Answer 9

Go to WalMart and buy some weed be gone in liquid form. Mix it using 2 oz per gallon in a pump up sprayer. Spray to the point of runoff. You don't need to soak, just wet the leaves. After you get rid of the clover, you may have to re-seed some areas with new grass. Wait until fall to re-seed. Don't just throw grass seed on your yard, use a core aerator dirst to loosen the soil and make holes.
Any liquid broad leaf weed killer will work.

Answer 10

cut the grass back as far as possible then go to band q and they have a spread u put down not only to keep likes of clover away but also feeds the lawn and kills weeds to

Answer 11

Debbie S is correct.

And please: DON'T use herbicides.

When your lawn is unhealthy, clover is a natural way to replenish lost nutrients.
The link provides additional information about this beneficial plant.

Also - try not to use fertilizer on your lawn.
Ultimately, it will harm beneficial organisms and earthworms.
You'll end up putting in more and more chemicals with less and less benefits.