Our White Dutch Clover seeds are an excellent natural solution for suppressing unwanted plants. It acts as a dense ground cover, effectively crowding out unwanted plants and preventing their growth. This hardy clover thrives in various soil types and climates, offering a low-maintenance option that enhances soil quality and reduces the need for herbicides. Ideal for lawns, gardens, and agricultural settings, White Dutch Clover helps maintain a healthy soil environment
Minimum Till
Our white clover seeds are perfect for minimum tillage practices. They establish quickly, providing excellent ground cover that reduces soil erosion and compaction. Integrating this white clover into your crop rotation enhances soil structure and fertility without extensive tillage. This method conserves moisture, reduces labor, and maintains soil health, making it an efficient choice for farming.
Attracts Pollinators
Outsidepride's White Dutch Clover effectively attracts pollinators with its fragrant white flowers. Bees and other beneficial insects are particularly drawn to it, enhancing pollination and supporting the health of your garden or farm. By fostering a robust presence of pollinators, this clover aids in the growth of other plants and contributes to a vibrant ecosystem.
Drought Tolerant
Outsidepride's White Clover seed is an excellent choice for dry conditions. Its deep-root system allows it to access moisture far below the surface, ensuring vigorous growth even in drought-prone areas. This resilience helps maintain lush, green ground cover and supports soil health, making it a reliable option for various landscaping and agricultural applications.
Versatile Ground Cover
Our White Dutch Clover matures to around 8-12 inches tall, offering superior wear tolerance and low maintenance. It enriches the soil with essential nutrients as a nitrogen fixer and is cost-effective, being cheaper than Miniclover. Ideal for lawns, gardens, and agricultural uses, this resilient clover ensures lush, green coverage and improved soil health with minimal care.
Quick Establishment
Our White Dutch Clover seeds rapidly establish a lush, green cover. With a germination period of just 1-2 weeks, the plants mature to 8-12 inches within 8-12 weeks and bloom by early summer. Once seeded, this clover returns year after year with minimal effort. Nitrogen fertilization is not required, as the clover naturally enriches the soil.
Adaptability and Seeding
Outsidepride Perennial White Dutch Clover Seeds are highly adaptable, thriving in various conditions. It requires a seeding rate of 1/4–1/2 lb per 1000 square feet or 8-10 lbs per acre and should be planted at a depth of approximately 1/8 inch. In the Southern USA, it’s best to plant in late winter or early spring, while in the Northern USA, late spring or early summer is ideal. Coated with Nitro-Coat for better establishment, this clover supports various seeding techniques, including no-till, minimum-till, and broadcast seeding.
White Dutch Clover (Trifolium Repens) - White Dutch Clover designates a strain of white clover which is perennial and drought tolerant. Used in lawns, as a ground cover, cover crop, for erosion control, and in pasture mixtures. Usually matures around 8 - 12 inches tall. White Dutch clover and our Miniclover® are the most popular clover seeds used for lawns. Miniclover® is more dwarf only reaching approximately 4-6 inches tall, has a much smaller leaf blade, and is not as aggressive as white Dutch making it the better lawn clover choice.
Many homeowners include White Dutch clover in their lawn seed mixture because clover sprouts fast and grows so dependably that it's a valuable aid in getting a new lawn started. White dutch clover is the most popular clover seed for lawn alteratives, due to the fact it is cheaper than Miniclover®. If you are looking for bulk clover to mix in with an existing lawn, our Miniclover® seeds works better as it blends in much better and will not take grass over. White clovers are good for lawns since nodules on the roots fix nitrogen from the air. Actually, up to 1/3 the nitrogen your lawn needs can be obtained from white dutch clover! Grows vigorously even in poor clay subsoil around new home construction. If you want all the benefits of a cover crop but don't want to till early or mow often, clover is your best bet.
With Nitro-Coat® each seed is inoculated with the correct Rhizobium strains and coated through a proven process that ensures a very high level of successful inoculation. The weight of the clover seeds will contain approximately 34% coating material that contains the inoculant and water holding material for better establishment and viability of the seed. There is no difference in the seeding rates between the coated and raw seed due to the increased germination and viability of the bulk clover seeds that are coated and inoculated. This coating material is not OMRI certified.
Getting a good stand of white dutch clover seeds is a first and critical step to success with this high quality, persistent crop. Since white clover is usually grown with a cool season perennial grass (may be planted alone too), it is usually either seeded at the same time as the grass or seeded into an existing grass stand. Regardless of when it is seeded, certain principles and practices are important for success. These will be discussed below; however, readers should refer to state and local sources for specific recommendations for their area.
Seeding Rate
Sow: 1/4 - 1/2 lb per 1000 square feet or 8 - 10 lbs per acre and should be planted at a depth of approximately 1/8 inch