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[Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>]

I agree

On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at 02:51 PM, Joe and Ellen Hecksel wrote:
> I took the liberty of highlighting the common factor in all the data 
> points.  Specifically, never let the to few inches of soil dry out 
> completely.
I planted white clover in my lawn a few years ago.  I had nothing but 
crabgrass in big patches.  The problem with crabgrass is that it is an 
annual, and for a month in the spring, I had nothing but mud.  I wanted 
anything tough and perennial - preferably something short and green and 
soft enough to walk on.  I put down clover and a few kinds of grass 
seed.  The clover took off first, and the next spring I had big patches 
of clover, and almost no mud.

The clover held its own against the grass for a couple of year, but last 
year we had a drought, and while I watered the blueberries and the 
raspberries, I figured the lawn would survive.  This year, I have almost 
no clover - just strips near the irrigation.  (And I have some small 
patches of crabgrass.)

Ginda