Call it a flower or call it a weed — clover is a plant everyone knows. Who hasn’t idled away an hour hunting for a four-leaf clover, hoping for good luck? A member of the legume family, clover is ...

Jacki Dee/Flickr Clover’s dense structure helps suppress existing weeds in your yard. Who has time to continuously care for that carpet-like, green grass almost everyone longs for? Nearly no one.

Lessons from earlier lawn management practices tell us our approach to weeds doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Maintaining a ...

Add clover to the lawn? For more than 70 years, clover has been viewed primarily as a “lawn weed” that’s to be eradicated along with the dandelions, chickweed, and crabgrass in pursuit of the ideal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clover blooms in a lawn. - Schulzie/Getty Images If you're tired of maintaining a traditional turfgrass lawn, you've probably ...

It’s a reflex for many of us around this time of year to spread fertilizer over our lawns. We may do this out of habit, but like any habit, this one has consequences, many of them not so good. If you ...

If you’re like most American homeowners, you’re hoping to maintain a lush, even yard full of healthy grass. But you likely know that there are plenty of things that threaten that dream: namely, weeds.

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at dgill@agcenter.lsu.edu. Clovers are trying to take over my centipede lawn. If it was just a few, I ...

The most common and widespread of all clovers in the Northwest, white clover is a perennial, occurring through the growing season in all zones. Other species, such as hop and subterranean clovers, are ...

Call it a flower or call it a weed — clover is a plant everyone knows. Who hasn’t idled away an hour hunting for a four-leaf clover, hoping for good luck? A member of the legume family, clover is ...