General Purpose Paddock Seed
A hard-wearing, durable grazing mix that combines excellent palatability with long-lasting performance.
Tax included. Free next-day UK delivery.
What makes this different
Genuine pasture seed, not cheap surplus
Plenty of bagged paddock seed is cheap agricultural surplus. This is the real thing: grass varieties Barenbrug selects for grazing quality, durability and palatability, not the lowest price.
Backed by Barenbrug
One of the world’s biggest grass-seed companies, developing lawn and sport varieties since 1904. The same grass they supply to golf greens and pitches goes into your bag.
Selected for grazing, not lowest cost
Palatable, productive pasture varieties chosen for grazing and hay quality, a world away from the cheap agricultural seed sometimes bagged up as paddock mix.
A tough, quality sward
The ryegrass gives durable, palatable grazing; meadow fescue and timothy add leaf, winter-hardiness and quality horses want to eat. The fescues also knit the sward and cope with variable paddock ground.
The detail
Specifications & characteristics
Is it right for your paddock?
What it’s for, and what it isn’t
A general-purpose grazing and hay mix. Here’s the honest fit.
Plan the paddock
How many bags for your paddock?
Enter your paddock size, choose full reseed or oversow, and we’ll work out the bags.
Product details
How it grazes, and how to establish it
The practical detail, seeding rate, establishment and aftercare for a paddock, not a lawn.
What’s really in the bag
Four grasses, one job: feed horses well
Here’s what each part of the mix does.
Durable, palatable grazing that recovers fast
Ryegrass is hard-wearing, quick to establish and grows back after grazing, the backbone of a productive paddock. The varieties here are selected for roughage and lower fructan than standard ryegrass.
A tough base that copes with real paddock ground
The fescues persist through wet, variable soils and knit the sward together. Meadow fescue is leafy, winter-hardy and lower in sugar, a healthier bite for good-doers than ryegrass alone.
A quality grass horses love
Timothy is palatable and winter-hardy, soft, leafy and full of roughage. It lifts both grazing and hay quality, and even picky horses will eat it.
Establishing your paddock
From seedbed to first grazing
Real results
A tired, patchy paddock, reseeded
The same paddock, poached and weedy before (left), reseeded to thick grazing after (right).
Customer reviews
What horse owners say
Let’s clear this one up
“15 kilos an acre? That can’t possibly be enough.”
“A lawn takes bags and bags. Fifteen kilos to do a whole acre looks far too thin.”
It’s the natural assumption if you’re used to sowing a lawn, so people over-order, or worry it’ll come up sparse.
A paddock is the opposite of a lawn: fewer, bigger, leafier plants.
A lawn needs a dense carpet of tiny plants. A paddock needs larger plants that put up plenty of leaf for grazing and hay, so the rate is a fraction of a lawn’s, about 14 kg/acre against roughly 120 kg/acre for a lawn.
No surprises
What to expect, and who it’s not for
We’d rather you bought the right seed than the wrong one.
What to expect
- Durable, palatable grazing from a ryegrass base.
- Suitable for a hay cut, then graze the aftermath.
- Quick to establish in warm soil.
Good to know
- Keep horses off until it’s well rooted (several weeks) or they’ll pull out seedlings.
- It’s a ryegrass-based general-purpose mix, not a low-sugar one. For laminitis-prone or good-doer horses, choose our Ryegrass Free Paddock Seed.
- Sow into warm soil (8°C+, roughly April–September) and don’t feed at sowing.
Questions, answered
Before you buy
Why is the sowing rate only 14 kg/acre?
How much do I need for my paddock?
When can my horses graze it?
Is it safe for a laminitic or good-doer?
Can I overseed a tired paddock instead of ploughing?
Can I take hay from it?
How many bags do I need?
Pop in your paddock size and we’ll do the maths.
Not sure this is the one?
Answer a few quick questions about your garden and we’ll point you to the perfect mix.
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