Every manufacturer is pretty bad on this front: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

Best bet is probably buying an older used car. I’ve heard of some people disconnecting their antennas; not sure how hard that is.

Both times I’ve received ChipDrops, the loads were an entire dump truck; ~20 cubic yards. I just used a wheelbarrow, a many-tined pitchfork, and a garden rake to make multiple large mulched beds, and a small pile in my back yard. I now have multiple large mulched beds, use it to cover food scraps in my compost bin, and use some in my vegetable beds/paths. It’s about a full day’s work to handle it all. I think ChipDrop also allows people to notify other users you’re giving some away if you can’t use it all, or you could try something like Craigslist.

I, personally, haven’t had much luck direct-sowing natives. I always get extremely low germination rates, then pests or weather kill the ones that do survive. Perhaps I’m buying old seeds or not buying/sowing enough. The only things I get good results from direct-sowing are annual vegetables.

What I’ve been doing for the past couple years is picking up truckloads of mulch or getting ChipDrops (I’ve waited months for ChipDrops, and when a request expires, I raise my donation amount), then sheet-mulching an area (cardboard or paper paint drop-cloth), and covering with 4"+ of chips or mulch. I then go to a local nursury, ask what plants may do well in a particular area (full dry shade, part shade, deer resistant, etc), and pick up a variety of plants. I only pick up 1 or 2 plants of a species/variety, because plants are expensive, and I want to see if they survive before investing in more. I then dig a hole in the mulch, stab holes in the sheet mulch, dump purchased soil into the holes, then plant the plants into them.

I’ve just started collecting seeds from some of my plants, and I should be able to divide some of my plants or try to root cuttings soon. Hoping I can avoid spending shitloads of money by just propagating what I have to fill all the mulched areas out.

Yeah, Bermuda grass is the devil, is extremely hard to get rid of, and will out-compete clover and most other ground-covers. You’re probably always going to have problems with it creeping in no matter what you do. It won’t out-compete shade-loving plants in shade though, and can’t out-compete taller plants.

If you don’t mind chemicals, I’ve used a grass-selective herbicide (fluazifop or clethodim can’t remember which) to kill Bermuda grass in a rock bed and it worked ok (took many applications).

I’ve also suppressed it by sheet mulching with multiple layers of cardboard and 4"+ of woodchips on top. Still required some weeding after a while.

I’ve never tried it, but I’ve seen people kill grass by covering it with a dark landscape fabric. However, I think this would take many months to kill Bermuda grass.

Also, I’m not sure clover thrives where Bermuda grass does. Where I live, clover dies in the summer (too hot), and doesn’t like full sun in spring and fall.

Personally, I’m slowly replacing parts of my lawn by adding and expanding beds (sheet-mulch + woodchips), and planting fruit-trees and perennials in them. This seems more manageable to me than trying to do my entire lawn at once (I have a fairly large lot). I walk around the beds about once a week and pull any weeds I see, and pull weeds in beds I routinely walk by whenever I see them.