What is the Best Quality Grass Seed you can Buy?
It entirely depends on the soil you’re growing in and for what purpose. The first thing to understand is the needs of your lawn. Choosing the right grass seed can be overwhelming. Perennial ryegrass, fine leaved grasses, and fescues (such as red fescue, chewings fescue and tall fescue) are popular grass species, but which seed is right for your lawn? Let's take a look at some of the most common growing areas, and the grass seed best suited to its needs.
Best Grass Seed for Clay Soil
Clay soil can be difficult to grow anything in because it’s slow to drain and prone to waterlogging. That doesn’t mean you can’t get a wonderful lawn in clay soil though, you just need the right grass seed.
The BS Waterlogged and Wet Soils grass seed is perfect for growing grass in clay soil over large areas and landscaping areas as it can withstand prolonged wet conditions. However, this mix is not generally suitable for lawns due to its quick growth and rough appearance, as it utilises hardy species such as rough-stalked meadow grass.
The best lawn seed for clay soil is our BS Childsplay Grass Seed, carefully blended with species that thrive in heavy ground to ensure quick establishment and long-lasting resilience. Featuring amenity perennial ryegrass to give fast germination and quick cover to help protect bare soil early on, strong creeping red fescue adds good soil-holding ability, chewing fescue and slender creeping red fescue help with stress resilience, and common bent helps smooth out the sward and adds a degree of softness and resilience in low-nutrient patches.
What is the Best Grass Seed for Shade?
One problem many gardeners face is keeping shady garden areas as vibrant as sunnier areas. This is especially true with north-facing gardens that don’t get as much sunlight anyway. The best grass seed for shade depends on the nature of your shaded area.
The best grass seed for dry shade, for example under trees, is our BS Shady Place Grass Seed. This mix is ideal for shade because the creeping red fescues and smooth‑stalked meadow grass tolerate low light and maintain a dense, fine-textured sward, while the ryegrass and bent provide quick cover and durability in patchy shaded areas.
For wet shade areas, BS Childsplay is a more effective mix of grass seed, and has the added advantage of superior wear tolerance.
We also have a helpful guide on how to grow grass in shaded areas if you’d like more information on how to make the best of your shady lawn.
What is the Best Grass Seed for Quick Growth?
There are many occasions when you’ll want quick-growing grass, from filling unsightly gaps to last-minute summer preparation.
BS Economy Grass Seed is made up of seed varieties that germinate quickly to give green coverage in no time at all. With the right conditions this mix can see germination in as little as seven days.
If you’ve noticed patchy areas in your grass, it’s understandable you want them dealt with quickly. The BS Renovator is designed to fill patches, either with a rake or a seed spreader, and can germinate in as little as seven to ten days!
What is the Best Low Maintenance Grass Seed?
Many of us dream of a luscious green lawn but it’s not necessarily something we want to spend countless hours toiling over! That’s why for many, the best lawn seed for a garden is a low maintenance grass seed mixture.
The BS Quality Hard Wearing Lawn Seed and BS Childsplay Grass Seed have strong wear tolerance but a greater proportion of slower growing grasses, creating a lower maintenance lawn.
What is the Best Grass Seed for Overseeding?
Overseeding helps improve the overall condition of your lawn and evens out patchy areas by spreading grass seeds onto a pre-existing lawn.
The BS Premier Lawn is a premium grass seed mix that combines hard-wearing grass varieties that can easily take hold in an existing lawn with fine-leaved grass mixes that give your lawn a polished appearance.
Best Lawn Seed for Lawn Repairs
Or if you’re just looking to patch up your lawn and get it back to looking its best? Our BS Renovator Lawn Repair Grass Seed is the perfect solution, germinating quickly and growing rapidly.
What is the Best Grass Seed for Dogs and Pets?
For many, one of the big benefits of a lawn is somewhere for a canine pal to run around but there’s no denying the damage they can cause.
One of the less pleasant ways is going to the bathroom, as dog mess contains nitrogen. While in small doses this isn’t a problem, if your dog always chooses a specific spot, the excessive nitrogen will kill grass.
Then there is your dog simply playing! Running around the lawn dislodges sections of grass and digging can compact the soil, making it difficult for new grass to grow.
We recommend the BS Childs Play or BS Renovator grass seed mix for dog-friendly lawns. Both are hard-wearing so can stand up to more damage and are quick growing if you need to overseed.
We’ve also written a guide on how to repair and avoid damage from dogs should your lawn need a little extra love and care.
Which Grass Seed Is Best for Your Needs?
Use our handy comparison table to easily find the right mix for you.
Choosing the Right Quantity of Grass Seed
Once you’ve decided on the best grass seed for you, it’s important to make sure to purchase the right quantity. Whether you're just looking for grass seed for a small patch of land or looking for large quantities for landscape projects, we have a wide range of quantities of grass seed. At Boston Seeds you can buy our premium grass seed in multiple sizes including 2kg, 5kg, 10kg and 20kg.
If you're growing a lawn from scratch but unsure how much grass seed you need, our handy Grass Seed Calculator can help you.
Grass Seed from Boston Seeds
Buy grass seed from Boston Seeds with certainty of the quality of grass seed cultivars contained. We are also DEFRA registered to sell certified seed, ensuring all of our grass seed is exceptionally high purity and germination.
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