Eighteen months ago, I covered a large portion of my backyard with the seeds of white clover (Trifolium repens), also known as Dutch clover. This is the classic clover that grows in lawns and is ...

If you're looking for a relatively easy way to improve your soil quality and hide the patchy areas of your lawn, grow this gorgeous, colorful cover crop.

From mitigating soil compaction and reducing erosion, to adding nutrients to soil and suppressing weeds, there are many reasons to plant fall cover crops.

Have you heard of cover crops? While farmers usually use these during the off-season to protect soil, gardeners usually ...

St Patrick's Day reminded me of looking for four-leaf clovers as a kid and believing that they were "lucky shamrocks”. They weren't so lucky because I would pick them, and they would wilt in my room.

During the 1950s, clover went from a vital component of a healthy lawn to a noxious and despised weed. The downfall of clover can be traced back to the commercial release of the herbicide 2,4-D in ...