Premier Family Lawn Grass Seed – Fast Growing

Premier Family Lawn Grass Seed Mix is the most wear-tolerant lawn mix we sell: an 80/20 blend of amenity perennial ryegrass and STRI listed slender creeping red fescue. The high ryegrass content takes you from bare soil to a usable lawn in weeks, while the slender fescue works underneath it, tightening the sward so the finished lawn looks better than ryegrass alone can manage. Sow it for a new lawn, or overseed to bring a tired one back.

Choosing between our lawn mixes: the Back Lawn Grass Seed Mix is the value choice for general garden lawns, the Premier Grass Seed Mix gives the finest, fairway-style finish, and this one is for lawns that get used hard and still need to look good.

Composition

What’s in the blend

The proportions matter here. Ryegrass does the heavy lifting; the fescue is what stops the result looking like a sports pitch.

80% Amenity Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne)

Ryegrass earns its place through speed and toughness. Expect green shoots in 7–10 days in favourable conditions, and a lawn that recovers quickly from mowing, football and everything else a family garden throws at it. We blend four named amenity turf varieties (currently Adagio, Vermillion, Greenway and Greensky) rather than anonymous paddock or forage types; the difference shows in leaf fineness and how well the lawn takes a regular cut.

20% Slender Creeping Red Fescue (Festuca rubra litoralis)

Slender creeping red fescue is the finer of the two creeping red fescues, and the varieties we buy are STRI listed. It spreads along the ground and fills the spaces between ryegrass plants, so the sward reads as one dense surface. It also copes with drier spells and a closer cut than ryegrass on its own, which keeps the lawn tidy between mows.

Why choose this mix

• Stands up to daily use without thinning; at 80% ryegrass it is the most wear-tolerant lawn mix in our range.
• Shows green within 7–10 days of sowing in good conditions, so patch repairs stop looking like bare soil quickly.
• Finishes finer than a straight ryegrass lawn, because the slender fescue fills in at ground level.
• Repairs its own thin patches as the creeping fescue spreads into them.
• Keeps its condition with nothing more exotic than regular mowing and a seasonal feed.

Where to use this mix

• New family lawns that will see daily use
• Overseeding thin or worn lawns
• Front lawns where appearance matters but children still play
• Play areas and goal mouths
• General domestic turf renovation

Sowing rates and mowing guidelines

Sowing rates

• New lawn establishment: 35–50g per m²
• Overseeding existing turf: 20–35g per m²

Recommended mowing height

15mm at the lowest once established. For everyday family use, 20–30mm is the practical range: dense enough to look cared for, long enough to take wear.

Best sowing times

Late summer to early autumn (August–October) gives the best establishment, when soil is warm and moisture is rising. Spring sowing (March–May) also works well where you can water through dry spells. Germination needs soil above about 8°C.

Pack coverage

Coverage below is at the full new-lawn rate of 50g per m²; overseeding stretches the same pack over roughly twice the area.

Note: all seed in this mix is subject to availability at the time of order.