Question
Can you guide me in the right direction for ridding clover from my lawn. The lawn is sod, not sure what kind 2 yrs old. I use scotts program but it does not take care of my clover

Answer
Clover is one of those things that belongs in a Lawn, but Scotts does not want it there.  So they tell you to get rid of it.

Scotts does wipe out Clover.  But if your Grass is healthy, the Clover will diminish entirely on its own.  Reason being, Grass gets a healthy dose of Nitrogen from N-fixing Clover roots, right where it counts: in your Soil.  As the Grass thrives, it thickens.  Clover can't compete; it gets squeezed out by the stronger Grass it's been boosting all along.

Now there's no Clover around.  The Grass loses vitality; it stumbles; it rests.  Time for Clover to grow back in and claim its rightful place on your Turf.  Back it comes, fixing more Nitrogen out of thin air right into your Soil, like a magic wand, doing what Clover does best.  And the Turf turns the glowing Green we love to see, once again.

Most people in the U.S. learned everything they know about Lawn Care from watching commercials and reading ads written for Scotts Miracle-Gro.  Do you know about cars from what Ford told you?  Would you buy a TV because the ad for Haier told you their Chinese-built TVs are the best?  How about soup -- does Campbell's REALLY make the best soup money can buy?

NO to ALL of the above, I hope.

It should be the same for your Lawn Care.  This is not a difficult subject.  But if all you know is what the manufacturer wants you to think, you are spending money that is not only spent unnecessarily, but on things that are BAD for your Grass.

Just want to make sure you know that.

This idea that Clover is bad is very old fashioned.  We know a LOT more than we did about Soil Science and Lawngrasses now.  People actually major in Soil Science today.  This is a subject that didn't exist 25 years ago.  Thanks to technology and science, we can measure the behavior of molecules like N and other things.  We can MASTER our Lawn Care on a level that was IMPOSSIBLE just a few years ago.  We can mix and match GENES in Hybrid Grass that we could not even find practically yesterday!

And you want to get rid of your Clover?

Glen, KEEP that Clover.  Watch it come and go.  Spend your efforts mowing and watering correctly.  FIND OUT what the NAME of your Sod is (St Augustine?  Bahia?  Kentucky Bluegrass?)  It will determine the height of your mower and the kind of care your Grass needs.  Your Lawn will LOVE what that Clover does for it.

Thanks for writing.  Your comments invited.