"Tsu Dho Nimh" wrote in message
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"Michael Anderson" wrote:

Although not the optimum time of the year to sow a lawn I did mine
yesterday. The size of the lawn is quite small 24 ft x 12 ft.

Advice from several people with varying degrees of gardening experience
has
mentioned that the seed should be ok if the average temperature is above
5 -
6 degree C. As the days are getting noticably colder I was wondering if
it
would be a good idea to lay sheets of polythene (sp?) on the lawn to keep
some heat in to aid the sowing process.

NO:
All you will do is cook the new roots - it gets REALLY HOT
under plastic.

Rubbish (see my message lower down). And I've done this several times, in
spring, summer and autumn, it seems to germinate about a week quicker. I
have plenty of areas of grass that attest to the fact that the roots dont
cook.

eithr it sprouts or it doesn't ... the seed that doesn't sprout
now wi9lldo so in the early spring.
Tsu Dho Nimh

IME if it doesn't sprout after a couple of weeks it wont. Certainly its
unlikely to last a whole winter, given all the animals that will regard it
as food.

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