Lawn Clover Seed

You can get Lawn Clover Seed at your local feed/seed store. There are different kinds of seed that you can get for your lawn. The most common lawn clover seed is 'white dutch clover'. This Clover grows less then 6" tall and has small white flowers.

The white flowers of this lawn clover can attract bees, but this can be avoided by mowing a few times during flowering season. The flowers are also fragrant.

I purchased my Dutch White Clover lawn seed from eBay. You can get it from multiple sources online but check your feed store if you don't want to pay for shipping. Clover seeds are generally not found in home improvement stores with grass seed so dont bother looking.

I spent about $12.39 for my lawn clover seed. This is enough to cover my 10,000 sq sf. front grass lawn.

Planting a Clover Lawn

My Dutch White Clover seeds arrived! I was amazed at how small they were. My original thought was to use my hand crank seed broadcaster. But the seeds were the size of sand. So after doing some online research I figured it out.

I'll mix the seed with sand and use it in my seed broadcaster.

This sounded like a great idea! Upon mixing my sand (1lb Clover - 50lb Sand) and clover in a wheel barrow, I loaded up my broadcaster and started to crank the handle. Well, within a few cranks the gears became jammed. So much for planting a clover lawn!

That's not going to work.

I ended up carrying a bucket and casting the sand/seed mixture on my lawn. Fortunately it was a windy day and that helped to carry the seed and spread more evenly. I simply walked in rows throwing the sand/seed as even as I could. I am thinking I will have to do another spot seeding this fall as I'm sure the seed did not settle 100% evenly.