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Depends on what soil you have. If you have a light soil, you won't need
to mix any sand. If you're on clay, take some soil from a bed and mix a
little sand with it until it can be squeezed into a lump, but easily
crumbled, even when moist.

A little peat helps, too.

The small bits are best laid with home-made turf - save tea bags after
use, and dry them out. When you have enough, put them in trays, moisten
them, and sow your grass seed on the teabags.

When the roots are reaching through the teabag you can plant them out by
scraping up a little of the surface and watering in the bags, adding a
little soil if necessary. That way it prevents the birds ruining your
seedings.

Covering the seeded area with fleece, also keeps the birds from eating
the seeds and is less fiddly than stuffing tea bags.

sigh

You chit the grass seeds on the teabags, so there *ARE* no seeds to keep
the birds away from.

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Rusty
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