Tech-Garden 1.5 m x 10 m Grass Seed Covering Net Fleece Fabric Material - Protect Newly Repaired Lawns From Birds, Wind & Rain. Cover Seeds, Delicate, Young Plants & Protect from Frost Damage

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You want to ensure that the soil stays moist until the grass seeds grow. Living in the UK means you can often count on the rain to help you seed a lawn, so be careful to avoid overwatering newly planted seeds. Grass seeds, like all seeds, like drinking water, not swimming in it! Step 6: Cover the seeds (optional) Where there is grass it is growing quite well. This is just 1 week after the first shoots shot up through the soil. However the bare patches have almost no grass at all. To put down grass seed, you can use a manual or mechanical spreader. Sowing grass seed by hand also works well for small to medium-sized lawns. Using a spreader isn’t necessarily better than sowing by hand. The choice of using a spreader or not is largely based on the area you have to cover.

c) Fleece also protects against persistent strong winds. However my garden is tiny and relatively sheltered by walls on all 4 sides so this is less of an issue. The best way to plant grass seed once the soil is ready starts with marking the area you plan to work on. This is especially important for lawns that are irregularly shaped. After the work you put into preparing the soil for sowing, this will seem light and easy by comparison. Two or three days later, cut the grass, reducing it by only about one-third of its height. Ideally use a cylinder-bladed mower, butremove the front roller to prevent it flattening the grass. Ensure the bladesare really sharpIf your soil is light and fast draining, add plenty ofwell-rotted manure or home-made compost to help hold moisturein the soil The lightweight fleece is the one to use through late spring, summer and early fall. The heavier weight is the one to use for frost protection. Use the rake to remove any leftover stones on the surface. Do it gently so you won’t make the surface uneven again. Otherwise, you may have to shuffle over it one more time!

e) The corner of my garden has a large evergreen bay laurel tree that sheds leaves throughout the year but especially so in cold, dry, windy weather. To prevent the leaves from accumulating on the new grass (it is difficult to blow or rake these leaves) I have put a pond net over the grass that will allow me (with the assistance of one more person) merely lift the net off the grass every week to get rid of the leaves). Just as your flower beds or vegetables need proper soil to thrive, so does grass. Grass is not as pretentious as flowers or vegetables, but it will grow better on level soil that’s been amended and fertilised if necessary. Of course using your nature friendly slug pellets under the fleece is an added precaution. So even reluctant users can be more confident they won’t cause harm. This is on a rather larger scale than the average vegetable garden admittedly; the crops are precious but, I was really impressed by the results. I asked one young gardener how often they use fleece after sowing. She told me “nearly always, mainly for protection against birds, especially pigeons”, but the benefits go further than that. Consider getting a soil analysis from the Royal Horticultural Society to find out the texture, pH, and key plant nutrients in your lawn soil. The analysis also comes with useful fertiliser recommendations.

Spring: Covered tender plants can be sown or planted out earlier than if uncovered by about two weeks in spring. Crucially crop covers prevent overheating by allowing heat to escape through holes built into them during manufacture. Unpierced transparent polythene sheeting or bubblewrap, for example, would not only lead to excess moisture but damage plants by excess heat on sunny days even in mid-spring. Thenrake the surface thoroughly in various directionsto create a level surface, remove any large stones and break up any clumps of earth, creatinga fine, crumb-textured seedbed Hot weather can raise temperatures underneath the polythene to dangerous levels that can literally cook your grass so do not use in the summer. Spring and autumn are the traditional seeding times so this is when to use it. If you are wanting to seed in warmer temperatures consider the same procedure but use a garden fleece instead. When the seedlings are 5–7.5cm (2–3in) tall, lightly refirm the soil, ideally with a garden roller or the rear roller of a cylinder mower/rotary mower. Alternatively, gently tread any raised areas Rake over the seeds lightly. Be careful not to bury them in the soil—they need sunlight to grow. For a large area, use an empty lawn roller. It will push the seed into the soil so that water won’t wash it away.

Firm the soil by treading the area several timesin different directions, using small,shuffling steps In the end, regardless of the variety of grass you choose, the process of laying grass seed is the same.

Children will love to help rake the grass seeds in. Image credit: @ ola_feelgood_gardening Step 4: Add straw or compost (optional) Sowing a new lawn requires up to 50 grams of seed per square metre. Overseeding an existing law calls for less seed, or up to about 35 grams per square metre. If trees, fences or buildings shade your lawn, use a suitable lawn seed for shade. Good choices include strong and slender creeping red fescue and hard fescue. These grass seed types do well in the shade, unlike sun-loving grass varieties, which may grow thin and sad-looking.