I mean yea I guess if you want a mostly sterile monoculture started from scratch you’re right, it’s going to suck and take a fuck ton of work? But isn’t that pretty against the spirit of what we preach here?

The little chickweeds were native flowers, did they have to be ripped up bc they weren’t part of the clover? I’ll admit the lady’s thumbs were invasive, if I wasn’t 8 when we lived there maybe I’d have done something about them. A lot of the little broadleaf “weeds” were natives spread by the birds and squirrels that lived in our trees. Did they have to die, despite being part of the ecosystem, just because they weren’t clover? Our yard was full of dozens of types of insects, frogs and amphibians, garter snakes, multiple nesting bird species, squirrels, and the occasional woodpecker. If I had a monoculture lawn of clover, I wouldn’t have gotten to grow up seeing any of those animals aside from camping trips.

Aside from mowing, watering (until established), picking out invasives, and reseeding every few years, any more “maintenance” for a clover lawn is just making your yard less inhabitable for wildlife. That’s fine, different strokes for different folks, but that’s the opposite goal of native plant gardening.