Hi
I need to reseed parts of my lawn and looking at the Canada Green Grass as its supposed to last better without water. Also heard you can just throw it on the earth and it will take.
Anyone got experience of it and is it worth the money?
Scott
No personal experience of this grass but plenty of experience of advertising. If the advertising on everything else is anything to go by it will not fully live up to the claims. For example: "Starting in just 14 days, a thick green beautiful lawn you'll be proud of!" If you interpret that as meaning that 14 days after you sowed the seed you will have a thick green beautiful lawn then you are going to be disappointed. What it actually means is this - after 14 days you will see some new grass shoots that might eventually grow into a thick green beautiful lawn. As for just throwing it on the earth, yes, but then you have to rake the seeds into the soil, otherwise you will be just feeding the birds.
Must change my name to Cynic.
You only need to rake the seed in and roll it if you short measure the sewing. How do you think that farmers managed all those millenia before Jethro Tull invented the seed drill?
Farm seed contains too much of the wrong kind of grass but that would be the cheapest way for making a lawn from seed. You can specify the types of grass you don'r want in the mix if you have a farmers supply shop locally.
They may also provide the Canadian variety the OP spoke about. Garden shops are trying to make a living out that niche of farming called the urban environment. But the growing requirements are all the same. It's just a matter of scale.
I wondr how well the variety will do in a wet summer. Canadian climates are hot summers and cold winters with comparatively little maritime.
I used it, and did not get a lush green lawn in 14 days - I was still waiting after 4 months.
I bought a few kilos of seed from wilkos instead, for less money and this has come up a treat.
dg
IME of planting grass, 14 days is about when the green shoots become visible. It takes until the following spring before you get a lush green lawn. I usually lay the seed more densely than specified, in the belief it might lead to a lush green lawn faster, but I don't know if it actually makes any difference, not having done a controlled trial.
A trick I read somewhere was to put the grass seed into half a bag of compost, add water, mix it up and then leave until the seed just starts to sprout and then spread it on the lawn. The theory being that it increases the germination rate. Don't know if it works though.
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