Summary: A mixed clover lawn seed blend combining Alsike, White and Red clover, designed to create a low-input, environmentally friendly lawn that naturally improves soil fertility through nitrogen fixation, offering drought tolerance and greener growth on poor soils without fertiliser, but not suitable for heavy wear or high traffic areas.
Cottage Lawn with Alsike, White and Red clover seed is an excellent alternative to standard garden lawn seed mixtures which often struggle on poor quality or low fertility soils without regular applications of artificial fertiliser.
Once established, the clover plants absorb nitrogen from the atmosphere and bacteria converts it into available plant food in small biological nodules attached to the clover’s roots.
This free fertiliser slowly leaches from the nodules and other plant residues feeding the adjacent companion lawn grasses, keeping them lush and green.
Red, White & Alsike Clover also produce deep tap roots meaning the plants stay green in prolonged periods of drought without additional watering even on the poorest quality or free draining soils.
There are some points worth considering before purchasing our Mixed Clover Lawn Seed product.
Clover plants are not particularly tolerant of high traffic wear, can become dominant in a turf (they are difficult to eradicate) and can stain quite badly if the leaf is bruised or broken whilst in contact with clothes or other fabrics.
Red clover can be less persistent so may disappear entirely over time.
However, this is the most environmentally friendly lawn seed mixture as the simple inclusion of mixed clover is proven to be an easy way of maintaining a great looking, lush, green lawn without the use of fertiliser.
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Best suited for: Low input, environmentally friendly lawns on poor or low fertility soils where natural nitrogen fixation and drought tolerance are required, and where heavy wear or high traffic use is not expected.



