White Clover (Trifolium repens) Buddy Pack

White Clover is a natural living mulch and source of green manure

WHITE CLOVER

White Clover (Trifolium repens) is a living mulch and will carpet any open spaces between your other plants aiding water penetration and soil friability. Clover has nodules on its roots where it fixes stabilized atmospheric nitrogen. As the plant decays this nitrogen is released into the local environment. All neighbouring plants including nitrogen hungry cannabis thrive on this cheap alternative to commercial fertilizer. White Clover is a tough workhorse that is difficult to kill and supplies quality nitrogen over a long period of time. Where clover works sideways across the ground, the Climbing Flowers Seed Mix takes a plot upwards instead, a blend of climbers for a fence or trellis rather than a single low carpet.

White puffball flowers with delicate splashes of pink form at the end of their own flower spike. Synonymous with the drowzy buzz of honeybees often accompanied by feeding butterflies a carpet of White Clover will be perennial and return in mid spring after winters chill. Seeds should be sown directly into the garden as the weather warms and the seedlings thinned as they start to clump.

White Clover flowers make a pleasant tea when dried and steeped, but it has little medicinal use. Its primary function as a companion plant is to fix and provide nitrogen, act as a living mulch and be a rich source of green manure. White Clover can substantially reduce the need for commercial fertilizers. This is good news for the planet as most commercial sources of nitrogen have their beginning in the petro-chemical industry. Sow this low, creeping perennial in spring somewhere sunny and its flowers will keep bees busy all season, and the full selection of flower seeds holds plenty more in that spirit. Very different in habit is Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia), a shrubby mint-family perennial grown for its scented spikes rather than as ground cover.

CONTENTS: 0.50 grams

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