Getting rid of clover?

Hi Paul... I am the girl who planted cow peas on her front lawn and got the neighbors all in a frenzy!! Well we then seeded and the mix i bought was a high quality mix but with a bit of clover. Well......the clover completely took overthis summer. Personally I don't think it's all that bad. It's green and soft and requires little mowing. BUT the neighbors have gotten their drawers in a bunch again and I would like to reduce the clover to a more manageable ratio in the grass. Is it possible to remove most of it without chemicals? I have a pretty big lawn by the way... Please help!! i APPRECIATE IT.

Fertilizer!

Clover is a legume. It gets its nitrogen from the air (sort of). In the meantime, grass is a nitrogen pig, but it there isn't much in the soil, clover will dominate.

When you put down the fertilizer, the grass kicks butt on the clover.

So should I fertilize AND put down more seed? Any seed suggestions? Should I try the annual rye grass to help? Thanks again.

There is perennial grass there already, right?

Just put down the fertilizer and the existing grass will go bonkers, smothering the clover!

So I assume i should use a high nitrogen ratio fertilizer? I have a bag of pro-grow
5-3-4 but I notice others with higher nitrogen content. Also no rush, but when will I notice results? Is my grasss just hiding in the clover somewhere? The lawn really is basically a field of clover! Thanks again for your great help.

Where do I fit something like corn gluten meal for the weeds in?

I would skip the corn gluten stuff.

See if you can find something organic and closer to 10-1-1.

Can you see no grass?

barely any grass...this is what I seeded the new lawn with but it also had a small amount of clover which I thought would be nice but I guess I did something wrong since the whole lawn is pretty much a clover field. So the ringer stuff youl like sounds right in its formulation. Just can't seem to find it in the Big stores, gonna have to order online.

.35% Penn 1901 Tall Fescue
15% Longfellow II Chewings Fescue
15% Applaud Perennial Ryegrass
15% Discovery Hard Fescue
9.5% (9.75% if no clover)Broadway Kentucky Bluegrass
10% Navigator Red Fescue
0.25% Redtop and 0.25%

Wherabouts are you?

Why did you not plant tall fescue?

i am in east central PA. the deswcription said this blend was engineered for organic lawn care- to stand up without the chemicals it had the fescue in it so I thought itwas a good choice. No? aaargh.....

How cold does it get there in the winter?

umm we are zone 5 or 6 I believe. It can get cold but not uasual for severe freeezing or anything like that.

So it can get to ten below?

That's pretty rare and extreme. Sometimes we get single digits but I would say the average is probably somewhere in the 30's.

In that case, something you might consider is the "amanda pea". You plant it in the fall and it grows through the winter. Around mid spring, plant some new grass.