So what are you supposed to grow instead of grass? Clover. If you want a sea of green that won’t raise the eyebrows of the neighborhood association, here you go. No watering, no mowing, no fertilizers, and you can walk on it. It’s incredibly cheap, on the order of $4 for a 4,000-foot yard. You can even buy seed mixes (for example, see www.earthturf.com) that combine microclover with low-maintenance grass. Since clover is nitrogen-fixing (gets nitrogen from the air, feeds it to the roots), the clover fertilizes the grass, and the entire thing looks just like a regular lawn.
