Here is the lawn. The areas I mostly want to spruce up are the front middle where it is more yellow and back behind the badminton net by the second sump cover where the grass is very sparse.

Micro clover appears to be smaller and has less flowers. At least this is what the internet is telling me

It's white clover. The "microclover" is a trademarked cultivar. It's supposed to be smaller leaved and shorter growing. I'm curious as to the responses you will get on this. I think there are those that see clover and think it looks weedy. Clover has a lot of benefits for the soil, other plants, and bees of course. I think it would be fine to plant with sod, though I'm one to replace all sod. I'm just thinking of planting this as a green groundcover in my yard of trees, perennials, grasses and shrubs. I don't grow lawn grasses. I'd like to see a yard where someone has done this?

This is an article from our local paper about it. But these people have full lawns of the clover not overseeding.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/best-grass-to-beat-chafer-beetles/wcm/ab05b56c-9cfd-45ce-b504-a59a6b400141/amp/

Maybe we should just overseed with a chafer resistant blend. Then it will be clover but also other varieties

We had pictures, thought I'd saved them, but no clue where. When we did it, we'd taken out the kids' play area that was pea gravel, and seeded that whole part to clover, and then raked clover in w/the regular grass. If I'd gotten the right kind, it maybe wouldn't have been such an irritant to my husband, but by the end of the 2nd year he was done w/it. The part that was just all clover and no grass was beautiful...just like..totally not micro at all, dangit. I would take the sod out, were I to do it again. Now, tho, we've taken out all the lawn up front and put it all to flowers/plants, and are working on doing the same thing in the back.

Yeah we are green space fans with three kids and a dog so no plans to get rid of lawn. Just looking to improve what we have.

What I like about the clover is that it stays green throughout the summer. Grass seed lawns are beautiful green in spring, but then brown in the summer.

Never hurts to try-you'll either like it or you won't, you know?

We have some watering restrictions in Vancouver but our lawn was green all year last year.

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I'm further south from you. Zone 8

I googled it and it looks very interesting. I may try it.

We tried all clover in a new lawn. The first year it was gorgeous all year, although taller and leggier than we had anticipated.. 2nd year started off great and still no weeds. Then we had a drought. No problem we thought, clover is drought resistant. Not so fast. We live in the country on well water so using that to water our lawn not feasible. So, all the clover died, all sorts of weeds moved in and it looked more than sad. Not that we hadn't researched the heck out of the clover before we went that route. What we learned later after much digging on line was that if you have all-clover and can't water during a drought that the clover plants compete with each other for the little water that is there and it will die. So, would be careful about trying an all clover lawn. But if you can keep it watered you might be ok.

I overseed white clover on our farm spring and fall. The biggest issue I noticed is that it seems to take multiple freeze/thaw or wet/dry cycles for the hard seed cover to break and sprout. I have never looked it up, but based on my experience, If you overseed now you may not see growth right away.

@shiveceI think it is still too cold to do it here. At night we are still getting down to 1-3 degrees Celsius. I read it needs to be more like 10 over night. It is find as the place I order from needs 30 days to ship.

We lived on acreage and sowed clover instead of grass for the ease of upkeep unfortunatly all the bears loved it too.

What did you end up deciding for your lawn? We're in the PNW and I'm considering a mixed grass and microclover lawn.

Interesting timing! We pulled a ton from the front actually in March and just reseeded with rye and clover. It’s currently coming in. The back we reseeded with grass and it’s barely growing. We did overseed with clover two years ago and nothing grew. This year looks more promising overall

Good to know. I hope this year goes better! We're starting from scratch in the backyard, which is pretty shady. I'm planning to try a miniclover and fescue mix.