Grass seed rate for wedding

Bovril

Member
Arable Farmer
Hi

My brother is getting married next spring, so I have ploughed up 2 acres of a field to sow with grass so they can have somewhere to hold the reception.

Being a wheat farmer, I have never sown grass. What seed rate should I sow at so as I can get a nice green carpet by June?
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
Is it amenity grass, or the type you will need to have mowed that morning and will grow up through people's shoes?
Either way, around 9 to 11 kg per acre seems to be a ballpark rate, unless it's a tetraploid which will have bigger seeds and thus a higher rate, fescues the other way.
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
You'll want @Great In Grass for this one but I would say more than the recommended rate to give a thick mat and don't plant Italian!
@Clive has already bought all the Italian for his new lawns . :whistle:
Fescue to the rescue...(y) it has a much finer leaf and cuts really neatly, definitely advise a proper turf/amenity mix from a Kevin near you.
 

Great In Grass

Member
Location
Cornwall.
Amenity grass seed for 2 acres will cost more than the wedding!

We do an 'Arena Mixture' that some of the music festival sites use, I'll PM the mix with a price later if you wish?
 

Bovril

Member
Arable Farmer
I've ordered 40kgs of seed from my agri merchant, he said i want the "cheep and cheerful" stuff. Don't know what that is.
Was going to put it in with my wheat drill, 15cm spacing. If i mow it regularly, won't it tiller out ok?
 
My brother sowed a new lawn last year.

He'd been annoying me so I spiked his lawn seed with westerwold.

Think he might as well of bought BP out the amount of petrol his lawnmower used that summer.
Bit like our neighbour every time they go out of an evening his bloody dogs bark so neatly roundup telling him to stop the f**kers barking and spread a gallon bucket of dap every fortnight
 

dannewhouse

Member
Location
huddersfield
I've ordered 40kgs of seed from my agri merchant, he said i want the "cheep and cheerful" stuff. Don't know what that is.
Was going to put it in with my wheat drill, 15cm spacing. If i mow it regularly, won't it tiller out ok?

I'm on 120mm spacings and after 4 cuts per year 2 years on you can still see every row after cutting.
obviously you are on a different thing, I have herd of people pulling the tubes out of the coulters but never tried it.
 

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