Joshua Siskin writes about gardening in Southern California each week.
, also known as Dutch clover. This is the classic clover that grows in lawns and is erroneously considered to be a weed in some quarters. I am enormously pleased with my decision to grow clover even if initially I was skeptical.
Knowing of clover’s aggressive growth habit once it put down roots, I held out hope that it would eventually take over. The winter that followed was rainy and, by March, the weeds had indeed been virtually smothered by the clover. Although clover attracts bees, it also attracts ladybugs, and I was pleased to see my grandchildren ladybug hunting whenever they came to visit. I also mowed the clover every month to keep it at around four inches tall.
As I normally awaken before dawn, I would shine a flashlight and see the march of the slugs which, shortly after sunrise, ended when they would return to the clover that they called home. I also noticed a skunk whose presence was due to the slugs upon which this furry nocturnal creature likes to dine. The skunk had burrowed under our backyard fence which I plugged by stuffing the opening they had created with a few bricks.
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