I'll be happy to give you some clover seeds; do you have a preference between the small white clover and the larger purple clover? It wasn't expensive, but I have a lot because the minimum order of white Dutch clover is a quarter pound for $3.49.
For another variety, it's $4.99 for a thousand seeds, but for a lot of varieties the minimum order is five or ten pounds: there's one whose minimum is five pounds for $22.99, recommended for pastures west of the Cascade Mountains. (Decades ago, the standard lawn seed mixture included some clover seed in with the grass, and then the fashion shifted toward all-grass lawns, and chemical fertilizers.)
Blueberry bushes sound like a fine idea. I have been idly looking at those, as well as black raspberries, and reminding myself that I should be sticking mostly to annuals for now (though I did put a flowering cactus into one corner in the front yard). When we lived in Bellevue, the city owned a couple of blueberry farms, which they leased to people who ran them and sold the berries. (The idea was to preserve Bellevue's agricultural heritage.) One of them was next to/surrounded by a town park, in a low and somewhat marshy area near Lake Washington where we walked occasionally. That has me wondering how much water blueberries need (as distinct from what they can tolerate).
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Date: 2017-05-04 11:01 am (UTC)For another variety, it's $4.99 for a thousand seeds, but for a lot of varieties the minimum order is five or ten pounds: there's one whose minimum is five pounds for $22.99, recommended for pastures west of the Cascade Mountains. (Decades ago, the standard lawn seed mixture included some clover seed in with the grass, and then the fashion shifted toward all-grass lawns, and chemical fertilizers.)
Blueberry bushes sound like a fine idea. I have been idly looking at those, as well as black raspberries, and reminding myself that I should be sticking mostly to annuals for now (though I did put a flowering cactus into one corner in the front yard). When we lived in Bellevue, the city owned a couple of blueberry farms, which they leased to people who ran them and sold the berries. (The idea was to preserve Bellevue's agricultural heritage.) One of them was next to/surrounded by a town park, in a low and somewhat marshy area near Lake Washington where we walked occasionally. That has me wondering how much water blueberries need (as distinct from what they can tolerate).