Days of thunder
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He would wouldn't he.Clive is going to have the best lawn in Staffordshire.
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Grass seed rate for wedding
- Thread starter Bovril
- Start date
- Location
- Herts/Beds border
Don't think i need to worry anymore. My brother got worried it was going to be too thin and that my ag mix was just silage grass so he's ordered 100kg of 'amenity grass' off the internet. It's just 85% rye grass and 25% fescue. The internet is telling him to sow 50 grams a m2, which, if my maths is right, is 500kg ha. I think someone is doing a good job at selling a lot of seed. I think i will just throw it all in the fert spreder and drive the quad over it again and again and again...
Will there be any problems with sowing it too thick?
Will there be any problems with sowing it too thick?
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
- Location
- Cornwall.
4046 m2 in an acre x 2 = 8092m2 x 40gm2 (seed rate) = 323,680/1000 = 323.68 Kg of seed required. Sowing too thick not going to be a problem.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Remember to roll plenty to get a nice firm seed bed
deleted user 837354
Member
Your sowing rate will be fine. It is getting later now for this sort of thing, keep watch for slugs although I doubt they will be able to do enough damage at that plant population. Weeds can be nailed out fairly easy if required.
Just broadcast it, don't try to drill it, amenity grass is a different beast to anything you are going to buy in an acre pack from your local merchant.
No prizes for guessing which company sorts out the music festival that occurs in this area.
Just broadcast it, don't try to drill it, amenity grass is a different beast to anything you are going to buy in an acre pack from your local merchant.
No prizes for guessing which company sorts out the music festival that occurs in this area.
multi power
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
Don't forget some lambs to graze it to get it to tiller properly
- Location
- East Essexshire
Eh?
Wrong Bovril(l)
For what it's worth, I've put little amounts of grass seed on with a slug pelleter and harrowed it in in the past.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Eh?
Wrong Bovril(l)
For what it's worth, I've put little amounts of grass seed on with a slug pelleter and harrowed it in in the past.
That will work just fine and roll it plenty so it's firm
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Is there two bovrills then??
deleted user 837354
Member
A slug pelleter works fine. I have established several lawns like that.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
- Location
- East Essexshire
I've got two "L"s in mine. It's to do with the farm name.
Is there two bovrills then??
A single "L" is the other fellow, and originator of this thread. (No relation!)
- Location
- Herts/Beds border
Eh?
Wrong Bovril(l)
For what it's worth, I've put little amounts of grass seed on with a slug pelleter and harrowed it in in the past.
I have occasionally been quoated in a thread for something totally irelevent to me as well...
- Location
- East Essexshire
Oh dear.
I'm sometimes not entirely sensible in what I write on here, so you may have been tagged in some fairly bizarre stuff, for which I apologise!
if a job is worth doing.............
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
sell it for turf after the wedding?
- Location
- S E Glos
Daughter booked a field for her wedding reception, nice thick grassland, owner mowed it regularly and prepared carefully for the big day. Then got fed up mowing and put sheep on it. Full of sheep muck the day before so hurried relocation to a local school hall.
- Location
- East Sussex
I suspect the grass won't establish well enough to support heels so I would suggest some cheapy carpet near the reception area where people mill about so the ladies can relax. We had some that was a bit like thick terram in a cream colour which looked good.