Gardeners Hard-Wearing Lawn Grass Seed - 20KG

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Regularly fertilising your lawn will provide it with the nutrients it requires to stay lush and green all year-round. Allow your lawn to grow to around 3-4 inches in height before cutting your lawn. This can be reduced by half an inch each time until you reach the desired height. An established lawn sown with our Premier Lawn Grass Seed can be cut as low as 20-40mm. It is important to remove the grass cuttings as dead grass will prevent sunlight from getting to the new grass. Rapid to germinate and establish (even in cold conditions), extremely fast growing, high wear tolerance, drought tolerant, great all year-round colour and has a high resistance to disease. Our comprehensive range of lawn seed mixtures are usually composed of leading varieties of perennial ryegrass, chewing’s fescue, slender creeping red fescueand bentgrass. We carefully select the best varieties of grass seed using data supplied by the Sports Turf Research Institute. Each variety is then sourcedfrom the world’s top plant breeders - ensuring consistent quality each and everytime.

The best time to sow our Quality Hard Wearing LawnSeed is from March-October, when the soil temperature is around 8-10 degrees. Under optimum conditions, the seed should germinate within 10-14 days from sowing. We've established ourselves as one of the most trusted suppliers of quality lawn seed in the UK, all rigorouslytested, proven and refined over fifteen years. Designed specifically to producea quality turf in shaded areas.BS Shady Place grass seed is perfect for under trees, alongsidefences andhedgerows. Our shade-tolerant grass seed varieties are particularly well-suited to dry shade areas and lower fertility areas. For wet shade areas, choose BS Childs Play Lawn Seed. Under optimum conditions, the seed should germinate within approximately 10-14 days. Once it reaches 3-4 inches, cut the lawn for the first time, gradually lowering the height with each subsequent cut as desired.

Allow the seedbed to cultivate for 10-14 days to encourage any weeds to come to the surface, then remove any weeds that appear by hand Retainsa lush, greenappearance in areas of low sunlight(images areactual photos of a BS Shady Place new lawn sowings) After this process, there may be some bare patches amongst your lawn – this is the perfect time to overseed when the soil temperature is optimum and moisture is plentiful. We recommend overseeding with the same grass seed mixture as you have previously sown for a uniform appearance. If you find that weeds appear during establishment, these will generally be taken out by regular mowing once the lawn has reached around 3-4 inches in height. If the weeds are recurring, after 4 months, a Selective Weedkiller can be applied which will kill common lawn weeds, whilst leaving the existing grass unharmed.

If going through a period of drought, water the area every other evening for the first couple of weeks. If regular rainfall, manual watering won’t be needed. Germination: Within 10–21 days fine Kikuyu hairs should appear, however this is condition and climate dependent.Cultivate the area to a depth of 15cm and remove any debris that is unearthed. For heavy clay soils, optionally, mix in sharp sand. We take quality seriously - all of our grass seeds and lawn seeds are tried and tested on our own research and development grounds, utilising the highest quality species available. Furthermore, our lawn seeds, sports grass seeds,and golf grass seeds only contain cultivars recommended by the Sports Turf Research Institute. Grows best between 15 and 25 oC but will tolerate up to 40 oC. Growth ceases when exposed to regular heavy frosts. Spread the grass seed evenly across the area at a minimum of 25g/sqm. A spreadercan be used for accurate application.