Grass seed rate for wedding

[Bovril]

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]

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.

 

[milkloss]

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!

 

[Kevtherev]

Agri seed 14-15kg per acre
Amenity up to 50kg to get a thick sward

 

[milkloss]

Oops! Or @Kevtherev both experts at grass of all sorts!

 

[Kiwi Pete]

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 .
Fescue to the rescue... it has a much finer leaf and cuts really neatly, definitely advise a proper turf/amenity mix from a Kevin near you.

 

[Kevtherev]

Strong creeping fescue for a nice thick mat

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Strong creeping fescue for a nice thick mat

Especially for a spring wedding, I'm thinking stilletos will not like openness

(Don't use a grain drill)

 

[Great In Grass]

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?

 

[Great In Grass]

@Clive has already bought all the Italian for his new lawns .
Fescue to the rescue... it has a much finer leaf and cuts really neatly, definitely advise a proper turf/amenity mix from a Kevin near you.

Clive is going to have the best lawn in Staffordshire.

 

[multi power]

Don't forget the clover

 

[Kiwi Pete]

..and lots of sweet vernal for that freshly mown smell..

 

[Bovril]

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?

 

[Badshot]

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?

Spin it on.

 

[Jon.S]

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.

 

[Will 1594]

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

 

[Bovril]

Spin it on.

Spin then roll? Or spin, harrow then roll?

 

[dannewhouse]

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.

 

[Badshot]

Spin then roll? Or spin, harrow then roll?

Roll.
Spin
Roll
Roll opposite direction.

 

[Great In Grass]

Wot he said ^^^ and if it's cheap & cheerful pray that it doesn't rain leading up to the day as it sounds as if it will cut up into a quagmire.