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Spring Paddock Maintenance
18th February 2010
Forage is an essential part of a horse’s diet, and grass should be your first thought when feeding forage, so if your paddock is badly poached you need to take urgent action now. If there is a lot of poaching, a complete reseed to provide fresh new grass is really your only option.
Badminton Paddock Herbal Grass Mixture is a specially selected blend of hard-wearing grasses and herbs to provide excellent grazing, high quality hay production and natural nutrition for your horse. The herbs within the mix help provide better minerals for your horse. If it is only badly poached around the gate, they recommend that you check that the pH levels are approaching neutral, then you can roll, harrow and seed just the poor area.
Badminton Paddock Herbal Grass Mixture combines Perennial Ryegrass with Timothy and Creeping Red Fescue to provide a dense sward to ensure grazing from Spring to Autumn. The Timothy and Ryegrass provide the forage, whilst Fescues, Meadow Grass and Bentgrass ‘tie’ the turf together so it can repair itself after damage. The herbs, Yarrow, Sainfoin and Burnet, not only provide minerals to enhance your horse’s diet but also improve drainage with their deep roots.
Badminton Paddock Herbal Grass Mixture is available in a handy acre (14 kg) pack (RRP £52.95).
