Grass seeds

Jesse

I think I remember a grass called as bermuda grass or something that grows in the tropics that you have to at least take a handful with roots and will just spread all the place after some months. Maybe you try looking for that grass, maybe to one of your neighbors there.

mimpimanis

I have also tried to get hold of grass seeds in the past but was not able to find any.

lumumba

I know you don’t like Bali Advertiser but under Garden Doctor there is an email address: [email]dr.cris@ymail.com[/email] I sent him an email not long ago and I got the answer I was looking for. I am sure he will tell you where to get them

Markit

Sorry about the mundane nature of this boldly adventurous request but I need to find some grass seeds. (for lawns, not those other kinds:icon_cry:) I have looked high and low and in between and nowhere on the island of Bali can I find some grass seeds - grass plants, yes and these other grass-like plants that people use instead of grass but no grass seeds. Can anyone please tell me where I can find some? Tried Ace Hardware and had 3 young men running all over looking until they came back and shame-faced reported that they "used" to have it but "sorry, sorry, no, sorry". Asked at a number of plant and flower businesses and they all wanted to sell me meters of plants, no thank you, SEEDS! "menyemai bibit untuk" I'm told is the correct Indonesian... Thanks in advance your Grassless Markit

Markit

lumumba wroteI know you don’t like Bali Advertiser but under Garden Doctor there is an email address: [email]dr.cris@ymail.com[/email] I sent him an email not long ago and I got the answer I was looking for. I am sure he will tell you where to get them

Not true! I love the Bali Advertiser! It's great for putting fries on to soak up the extra fat and finding out what the Ayurveda terrorists are up to. But thanks for the email anyway that hadn't occurred to me either. Markit

begonia

Please Markit, share the information if you got it yap!! I have been asking my friends to bright some seeds from Spain (not got them yet!!!) but will be easier to know if there is a place selling them in Bali!!!

Markit

Begonia you've been here how many years? And you don't know where to find grass seed? I have to say I find that just a little discouraging....

toucan

Around 6 months ago I went with an expat friend to Carrefour and she bought some stuff to fix some patches in her lawn, now I can't remember if she bought lawn seed or fertiliser, but there were quite a few packets of different lawn stuff there. If you happen to be in C4 might be worth checking out their gardening section to see what they have. Markit a quicker option but less expensive than putting down a 'roll on' lawn, is to buy the squares of ready grown lawn and then wash off the attached dirt and detangle the roots so that you have lots of individual tufts of grass. You then plant these at approx 10cm spacing in a grid fashion and they grow and spread pretty fast to cover the area.

Markit

Thanks toucan I'll C4 (thought that was an explosive?) a go. It's really not so much an expense factor - the local garden shop will sell me a square meter of the stuff and lay it for me for 20,000 Rups. It's just here where everything grows when you look at it hard, I just can't find the motivation to do it that way - sometimes I just want to do things my way... as Sinatra said.

Lancer786

you can ask some fishermen that will be the really helping source to exactly get an idea that from where you can get this grass.

Butch

Lancer786 wroteyou can ask some fishermen that will be the really helping source to exactly get an idea that from where you can get this grass.

fishermen ........................ grass ?????? :icon_e_confused: fishermen ........................ grass ?????? :icon_e_sad: fishermen ........................ grass??????? :icon_cry: No, don't quite get it. Please explain.

begonia

Butch wrotefishermen ........................ grass ?????? :icon_e_confused: fishermen ........................ grass ?????? :icon_e_sad: fishermen ........................ grass??????? :icon_cry: No, don't quite get it. Please explain.

Having good laugh this morning reading the forum, hehehe this is the second laugh!!!:icon_lol:

Markit

OK, just to finish this thread off - THIS IS OFFICIAL - I have now looked in every possible place on the island of Bali and there is NO FECKING grass seed here to be had - NONE! I have also asked everyone on the island and if you don't remember than you were sleeping when I asked you, and you didn't know either. I am now transplanting Rumbut Mutiara (sp?) from my gardeners plot to mine - and money from my pocket to his - he is happy:icon_rolleyes:

tintin

Just an idea. What about inquiring at the Bali Handara Kosaido Golf Course, Bedugul, or at one of the three other golf courses in Bali? I seem to remember that grass is usually grown on golf courses.:icon_rolleyes:

spicyayam

There was an article in the Bali Advertiser about growning lawn in Bali. He doesn't specifically say where to buy grass seed, but you could try sending the author an email at the end of the article. I have seen some hotels with some real nice lawns and gardens here and of course golf courses, so I am sure seed must be available somewhere....

Markit

Thanks fellas for the tips - already wrote to the guy in the Bali advertiser (twice! and did I get a reply? Feck no!) The idea with the golf course is good and I may try it but, as you may be able to see from the newest pics - I have already embarked on the mission of giving my local garden shop as much money as possible...:icon_cry:

Blondie

Sorry about the mundane nature of this boldly adventurous request but I need to find some grass seeds. (for lawns, not those other kinds:icon_cry:) I have looked high and low and in between and nowhere on the island of Bali can I find some grass seeds - grass plants, yes and these other grass-like plants that people use instead of grass but no grass seeds. Can anyone please tell me where I can find some? Tried Ace Hardware and had 3 young men running all over looking until they came back and shame-faced reported that they "used" to have it but "sorry, sorry, no, sorry". Asked at a number of plant and flower businesses and they all wanted to sell me meters of plants, no thank you, SEEDS! "menyemai bibit untuk" I'm told is the correct Indonesian... Thanks in advance your Grassless Markit

Hi Mark Go to Ebay.com.au and paste this into the search engine )or type in "lawn seeds" A whole range comes up lawn seeds, Home, Industrial, lawn turf items at low prices on eBay.com.au

Markit

Hi Mark Go to Ebay.com.au and paste this into the search engine )or type in "lawn seeds" A whole range comes up lawn seeds, Home, Industrial, lawn turf items at low prices on eBay.com.au

Pardon my stupidity but how does Australian Ebay help me here in Bali? I can't imagine anybody dim or optimistic enough to post anything to Bali and: A) expect it get here. B) expect to get paid for it Thanks anyway:icon_wink:

motormouth

Markit, you have done the right thing, having the grass transplanted to your garden. It is what everyone does here.Mutiara(thicker grass) is for areas with little sunlight, the other Japan(finer grass) is for areas with sunlight.

toucan

I had a look in Carrefour for you last week Markit, plenty of fertiliser and flower seeds but no grass seeds. The transplanting sounds like a better method to get quicker coverage anyway.