Looking for affordable lawn seeds (20-25kg)

Sam W

I had to replace 2 whole gardens of lawn and I'm desparately looking affordable lawn seeds (20-25kg).

It seems there's a shortage in supply in Dublin in where I live (at least in the usual gardening shops like Woodies/Homebase etc). There's either no lawn seeds in store at all, or at a monstrous price.

After visiting 2 Woodies and 2 Homebase and could not find anything at all, I finally managed to get 2 small boxes of seeds from a gardening centre here in Templemore - it was 20 euro for 900 grams. Just seems way too expensive.

The cheapest I can find so far is 80 euro for 20kg in Co-op plus 5 euro shipping. Google doesn't help much as it only promotes those who pay a lot of ad fees (and therefore the seeds are more expensive too).

Are there any local stores that have cheaper seeds in Dublin or in surrounding areas? I wouldn't mind having a bit of drive.

The Continental Op

Be careful what you buy in the co-op you don't want a lawn of fast growing rye grass breed for cattle food.

Sam W

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117632931#Comment_117632931

Nah it's just for dogs & kids running around etc. Preferably just hard wearing and low maintenance lawn, but I'll accept anything since there's not that much option here anyway...

enricoh

Nad in Blake's cross, will courier it out

The Continental Op

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117632996#Comment_117632996

Its the quick growing tall rye grasses you don't want because you'll have a lot more grass to cut. Lawn grasses are slower growing dwarf forms.

Sam W

For whoever might or might not be interested, I ended up getting a 12.5kg bag for 42 euro from NAD (National Agrichemical Distributors) in Lusk. A bit of drive but much much much cheaper than most places which sell a 1kg bag for like 20 euro.

legend99

https://seeddirect.ie/index.php/lawn-seed.html

I've used these guys a few times. Delivered in 2 or 3 days.