Time to start considering the yard again. I had great success with my alternative ground covers last year. I added some White Dutch clover seed to my grass mix and put Creeping Thyme in my borders. The Thyme rocks! It has fully taken over, does great without much watering and keeps the weeds down to a minimum.

I got mine online at Outside Pride. An 1/8 of a pound covers a lot of area.

Until now, Creeping Thyme from seed never had quite the robust, long-blooming beauty of the more expensive plant varieties. Well, creeping thyme has swept all that away! This super-vigorous, lemon-scented, brighly-flowered variety spreads 18 inches in no time in the sunny garden, giving you months of deep pink blooms and heavenly fragrance for mere pennies! 

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. 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.