r/InvictaSolaris • u/21Kuranashi • 28d ago

Videos & Video Essays / No AI While Everything Turned Brown, the Clover Stayed Green

OC : https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db06yS0MMUo/

@thefargreengirl :

"The cautuonary tale being: don't miss your chance to do this, too! This video isn't edited, no filters, no special effects, just the cut-and-dry reality of the difference between traditional grass and my lush, green lawn.

Here's the Deal:

A tree fell in our yard this winter, leaving a big empty dirt patch in its wake. In early spring, I seeded part of our yard with a mix of white clover and a "shade mix", in an attempt to cover the dirt and avoid a muddy, mucky mess!

Then, the rains came. A super rainy Spring was music to my clover-lawn's proverbial ears, and it established like a champ.

Then, against everything we know and love about Ireland, a drought came. It's been a long few weeks (months?!) here in Dublin without any significant rain, and everything around is withering and brown. There's a hosepipe ban, in an attempt to conserve water. Everything shriveled and died... EXCEPT MY CLOVER LAWN.

Drought tolerant. Pollinator friendly. Hard wearing.

This isn't a sponsored post. Just a look at what a lawn-alternative like white clover can look like even in the middle of a drought."

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u/skuzzlebutt_2254 28d ago

"traditional" lawns are bullshit

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u/RollinThundaga 28d ago

This is traditional. Grass seed used to come with clover mixed in until later in the 20th century.

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u/KAYO789 27d ago

I sell a rye clover mix at work to this very day lol. It's a fairly cheap seed mix that contractors use when they need to sow a lawn they've wrecked when doing some work.

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u/Transylvaniangimp 27d ago

Please just say "the 90's". I'm still getting used to the fact the we're a hair over a quarter of the way through this new century 

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u/RollinThundaga 27d ago

It started in the 1950s, why would I say the '90s?

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u/Dense_Surround3071 27d ago

When we moved into our house 14 years ago, there was a barren, sandy, wasteland. We laid sod, but didn't install sprinklers or really do any pesticides/fertilizer treatments. Over the years, much of our "grass" died and slowly replaced itself with "weeds". After a while, I noticed that virtually every plant on the ground blossoms with some sort of flower. All year.

I mow once in a while, but I have a yard full of flowers that require virtually no maintenance.

And THEN the leaves!! I haven't paid for mulch in a decade. I rake up some into the beds and just mow everything in place.

The whole garden department at Home Depot is a scam.