Grass Seed

Steerpike

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I have a few mud patches in my fields an area probably an area about 20m x 40m in total.
Now it's starting to warm up and hopefully dry out a little bit I'm thinking of re seeding but having never done it before can anyone recommend the best types of grass seed and the amount I may need?
 

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If it's only a very small amount for repair and it is only used for high traffic areas prone to poaching, as opposed to over seeding an entire paddock, you will need a sturdy resilient award like rye.
 

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Mine aren't prone to laminates and the areas are around the gates so high traffic areas, thank you for the websites will have a read!
 

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Look on eBay. There are some nice 80 percent rye blends specially for horse and pony gateway repair in a variety of bag sizes, nice sturdy swards, good for clay soils too !
 
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I've found grass seed to be rather expensive in the past so I used to store my hay bales on pallets. Then when a large bale was used I'd lift the pallet & gather up the piles of seeds that had dropped there & bag them up for the spring. I used this on various areas of the paddocks & it used to fill in the poached areas well & cost me nothing but a little time sowing them. :)
 

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I've found grass seed to be rather expensive in the past so I used to store my hay bales on pallets. Then when a large bale was used I'd lift the pallet & gather up the piles of seeds that had dropped there & bag them up for the spring. I used this on various areas of the paddocks & it used to fill in the poached areas well & cost me nothing but a little time sowing them. :)

I do this as well with my large round bales once the bale is finished all the seeds are left which sweep up and scatter on the bald bits.
 
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