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I am using a mouse for my work. I started out with a hard brush, but it left images of the size of the brush which looked very bad in some areas. I did most of the cloning with a soft brush set to hardness zero. This worked much better but I believe may be part of my blurring problem. As you stated earlier my clone work has a blur. That is one aspect of using the clone tool that I have been trying to improve. You can also see the problem on the curb cleanup. When I cleaned up the curb it created the same blurring issue. The curb looks smudged and looses it natural texture. This cloning was completed using the soft brush and sampling cleaner sections of the curb.

Would it help to set the hardness to 30-50%. Maybe that would help maintain the texture better?

Also what scale factor do you work with when cloning? I am working zoomed in a little, but then when I drop back to 100% the grass area looked totally different and I have to rework many of the sections.

Looks like I still need more work on NOT doubling. I am finding this difficult for this large grass area. As my old piano teach use to tell me, practice makes perfect. Unfortunately in editing images there is no sheet music to follow.