Clay King - Grass Seed for Clay Soil UK - Deep Rooting for Clay Lawns and New Builds - 5kg - Garden Lawncare Guy

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If you don’t want to do it yourself, many lawn care companies maintain lawns and control pests. Some may include services marketed as organic or pesticide-free. For ornamental lawns, choose either Rolawn Minster Pro or A1 Lawn Am Pro-1. Both will get you awesome results. Minster Pro contain only two types of grass, which for some reason, affects the price. A1 Lawn’s offering is quite a bit cheaper but still looks pretty epic. For gardens that are not completely shaded, hardy seeds like perennial ryegrass and some fescue cultivars will be just fine. With these seeds, you will probably have to overseed once per year if the area is particularly shaded, but other than that, they are good choices. Which seeds are better suited to UK garden soil? RHS Garden Hyde Hall has a heavy clay soil, but the low rainfall in Essex makes handling this soil very much easier than in Devon

Loam soil is basically a combination of clay and sand, and this gives you the best of both worlds. It will hold enough water and nutrients, but also drain well so there’ll be no waterlogged lawn when we have a spell of downpours; an all too frequent thing in the UK, I’m sure you’ll agree.But if your lawn sits in shade for most of the day, you’ll need a grass seed that’ll cope well in it. In which case, The Grass People’s Steadfast is fantastic. It creates a shade tolerant lawn that looks pretty phenomenal. 3. Your Budget Last but not least, this mix contains 5% Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass which is drought tolerant and can also recover well after traffic. This is ideal for heavy clay soils that can be easily compacted.

It is also important that your lawn gets enough water. Give nature a helping hand by watering regularly in dry periods, for example with a garden hose or using a sprinkler system. As you can see it’s starting to come through. Here is the full after I even tried to put a stripe in it 🙂 Lawn after 4-5 months of care from seed using GBW grass seed Fertilize your lawn: Fertilizing your lawn can provide essential nutrients for your grass and help it grow strong and healthy. It’s important that you choose a fertilizer appropriate for the type of grass you have and to follow the manufacturer’s instructions for application. Sowing grass is practically possible all year round, but the ideal period is from February to October, as long as the soil temperature is at least 10°C. In autumn, you benefit from the still-warm soil from the summer. Spring is also a suitable sowing time, but keep in mind that with spring sowing, the energy goes mainly to leaf development instead of root growth.We might now know when is the best time of the year for sowing grass seeds, but there are still a few things to bear in mind. Soil temperature By the sounds of it, you may need our Steadfast: Ultra Shade mix to blend with the clay mix if it is always in shade, as the Ultra shade mix is for areas that receive little to no light. Steadfast: Ultra Shade contains a super species called Poa Supina which is exceptionally shade tolerant. Ryegrass is the most common type of grass seed. It’s coarse, versatile, hard-wearing and fast to grow. Technically speaking it’s a ‘bunch grass’, which means it’s a cool-season grass that thrives in most soil types and conditions.

We make it transparent how we can offer you high-quality content, competitive prices and useful tools by explaining how each comparison came about. This gives you the best possible assessment of the criteria used to compile the comparisons and what to look out for when reading them. Our comparisons are created independently of paid advertising. There were one or two patches that didn’t grow as well as the rest of the lawn, but there are tons of reasons why this could be, such as birds feasting on seed in that area, the soil conditions, or simply due to human error when spreading the seed. I usually use a seed spreader for sowing lawns, but on this particular day, I forgot it and did it by hand. EU law states that grass seed mixes should be at least 70% – 80% pure. Which, is pretty awful as that leaves 20% – 30% of potential contamination. Either by other grasses, weeds and/or weed grasses.This is grass seed that really does what is claimed, although you have to be patient at first. It was over two weeks before we started to see some green shoots popping through the soil. Within a couple of weeks or so after that, the grass looked stunning.