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Green Velvet Lawn Seed is a hard wearing grass seed for starting a lawn from scratch or thickening up a tired one, and it stands up to everything a family garden throws at it.
An essential accessory for any gardener’s shed. Green Velvet’s Lawn Seed is our multi-purpose grass seed that helps you repair, regrow, and strengthen your turf. Produced by the grass seed experts at Barenburg, you can feel confident you’re buying the very best for your lawn.
This Green Velvet lawn seed is a classic all-rounder, suitable for any type of grass and sized garden. Its high-quality mix of grass seeds is full of goodness to grow thick, strong, and healthy grass blades. Encouraging rapid regrowth, you’ll see your lawn coming back to life within a couple of weeks – tough enough to handle the wear and tear of everyday life and provide a gorgeous green finish.
Lawn seed is a combination of various types of grass seed to provide the best attributes for your lawn. They often include cool-season grass seeds, which cope well with cooler, wetter conditions (ideal for the UK) and warm-season grass seeds with a higher tolerance for extreme temperatures and drought. When mixed together, they deliver a robust, resilient and healthier lawn.
Lawn seed is used on the areas of your lawn struggling to grow or producing thin, discoloured grass. For these areas, start by digging over the top layer of soil and removing any weeds or dead grass blades. Add a layer of topsoil or soil conditioner if needed to provide extra goodness to the area. Rake over the area to create a flat surface and scatter your Green Velvet Lawn Seed on top. Gently press them in and water. Over the next couple of weeks, you should start to see bright green regrowth – keep them hydrated (but not overwatered) and avoid mowing your fresh grass until it is fully established. Not sure how much you need? Our grass seed calculator works it out for you in seconds.
Got a shady spot? Our Green Velvet Shady Seed is made for it. You can also browse the full grass seed and lawn fertiliser range, or contact us for more information.
High-quality products are only half the story at George Davies; expert delivery and after-care are just as important. From your very first enquiry to the moment your Green Velvet Lawn Seed arrives, every single customer is looked after by our friendly team.
We proudly service Olney, Bedford, St. Albans and the surrounding areas. Operating from our depots in Olney and St. Albans, we can offer a prompt and efficient delivery service for homeowners and professional landscapers alike.
Each delivery of our Green Velvet Lawn Seed is safely stacked onto rigid trucks equipped with forklifts. With the use of What3Words, we can place your Green Velvet Lawn Seed exactly where you need it (within reason). Long, narrow tracks and gravel driveways are not a problem! Where possible, we can place stone products, turf pallets, and product bulk bags around the back of your property. All we ask is for 9 ft x 9 ft clear access so the forklifts can get through safely.
Our skilled drivers are highly trained, calm under pressure, and expert problem-solvers when it comes to difficult deliveries. If you have restricted areas, tight entrances, or specific requirements, please tell us when ordering and add notes to your online order. Trust us when we say: our drivers truly make difficult deliveries easy! Delivery Policy Delivery FAQs
Most of it will be through in 7 to 21 days, depending on soil temperature and how consistently you water it. Warm, damp ground in late spring or early autumn gives the fastest results. Sow into cold soil and you will be waiting a good while longer. Our guide on how long grass seed takes to grow goes into more detail.
March to November, with spring and early autumn being the pick of them. Autumn is often the better of the two, the soil is still warm from summer, there is more natural rainfall, and there are fewer weeds competing with the young grass.
You can, but you will waste most of it. Seed needs contact with soil to germinate, so scattering it over established grass mostly feeds the birds. Mow short, scarify to open up the surface, then sow and rake in lightly. Our guide on when to overseed your lawn walks through it properly.
Yes. It is a general purpose mix built to stand up to normal family use, so kids, dogs and garden furniture are all fine once it has established. Give it a full growing season to knit together before you start treating it as a football pitch.
A 525g box covers 15m² on bare ground or 30m² when overseeding. The 20kg bag covers 500m² fresh or 1,000m² overseeding, with the 1.75kg and 10kg sitting in between. Our grass seed calculator works out exactly what you need for your area.
Rake it in so it is in contact with soil rather than sitting on the surface, keep it watered, and net the area for the first couple of weeks. It is the question we get asked most, so we wrote a full guide on keeping birds off your grass seed.
Stored somewhere cool, dry and sealed, it will be fine for two to three years, though germination drops off the longer it sits. If you have half a box left from last year it is worth sowing a little thicker to make up for it.
Green Velvet wants a reasonable amount of sun. For ground under trees, along fences or behind sheds, our Green Velvet Shady Seed is the right mix. Plenty of people use both across one garden.
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Follow these six steps to sow your Green Velvet Lawn Seed:
Step 1: Clear the ground
Remove weeds, stones and any dead grass. If you are starting from scratch, dig the area over and let it settle for a week or two so you can deal with any weeds that reappear.
Step 2: Prepare a fine tilth
Break up compacted soil with a fork, then rake until the surface is level and crumbly. Good seed to soil contact is the single biggest factor in how well a lawn comes through. A little topdressing helps on poor or thin soil.
Step 3: Work out your quantity
Sow at roughly 35g to 40g per m² on bare soil, or about half that when overseeding. Our grass seed calculator will do it for you.
Step 4: Sow evenly
Scatter by hand or with a spreader, going over the area twice, once in each direction. Two light passes at right angles beat one heavy one every time, and you avoid the stripey look that comes from uneven sowing.
Step 5: Rake in and firm
Rake lightly so the seed settles into the surface, then firm with a roller or by treading it down. You want the seed just covered, not buried.
Step 6: Water and wait
Water with a fine spray and keep the soil damp until the grass is up, usually 7 to 21 days. Stay off it until the first cut, and set the mower high for that one. Once it is established, feed it in spring with Envy Spring/Summer Fertiliser and again going into winter with Nourish Autumn/Winter Fertiliser.
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