What lawn seed?

keano25

In your opinion best for Irish climate..

garv123

or just go with no2 lawn seed . which is good if there'll be people/kids on it, most popular here id imagine.
you can get much fancier stuff if you want it on show at the front and no one will be walking/playing on it.

keano25

I plan on just playing football on it with the kids etc. Enjoy the garden that way if you know what I mean when we get dry weather.

legend99

So most mixes will have rye grass seed. I think only the luxury or no. 1 mix generally doesn't and that will then be a mix of fescues and some of them will have bent and browntop seeds as well in that luxury mix. Have a look at seeddirect.ie. Absolutely no link to them but I bought from them last year. But the lawn seed page lays out the 4 or 5 options and says what each is etc so very handy reference. And essentially the question I think is whether you get a mix with rye or get the luxury mix without rye.

And have a look at Premier Lawns latest video on YouTube. He (Robbie who runs the business in Belfast) actually addresses the difference kind of seed options as well.

garv123

keano25 wrote: »

I plan on just playing football on it with the kids etc. Enjoy the garden that way if you know what I mean when we get dry weather.

no2 would be perfect for that. I got 3 25kg bags online last year and saved about 40euro vs buying local.

https://mcguinnessseeds.com/product/no-2-lawn-seed-top-seller/

keano25

https://www.qdstores.co.uk/products/family-lawn-seed-10-kg-bag.html

Thanks everyone.

Is the above any good? My friend said it's stocked locally.

legend99

keano25 wrote: »

https://www.qdstores.co.uk/products/family-lawn-seed-10-kg-bag.html

Thanks everyone.

Is the above any good? My friend said it's stocked locally.

It says:

Contains: Aberdart (lolium perenne) 55%,
Escapade(lolium perenne) 40%, Relevant (Festuca Rubra) 5%,

Lolium perenne is rye grass. Festuca rubra is red fescue. So a very heavy rye mix. Again if you look at seeddirect (seeddirect and McGuinness are the same crew) you'll see that most mixes are not so rye dominant. I'm not 100% sure why but think it is because traditionally rye was a more coarse grass and didn't look as good - although newer dwarf varieties are better. So you could Google those cultivars - the rye grass variants (Aberdart etc). And in fact when I searched for Aberdart rye a lot of the returns were pasture and farm related so that would worry me for using it at home but maybe others here would know more than I would on it.

And I'm actually worried that I was able to tell you that off the top of my head thanks to COVID-19 and filling my time with looking up grass!

keano25

Thanks for that..

Think I'll just go with the no 2!