TURF SEED FOR SPORTSTURF.

About Gilba Solutions.

Gilba Solutions are turf and lawn seed suppliers to the Australian turf and lawn markets. Whether you require perennial ryegrass seed, fescue, bentgrass, Kikuyu grass seed, couch or specific turf seed blends we can help.

We also carry out research into sports turf seed to make you get the best results when you use it.

Our Turf Seed Suppliers.

You can trust suppliers like Landmark Seed, RAGT, or Seedforce. They supply the best quality grass seed for your sports fields, lawns, golf courses, race tracks, or recreational facilities.

Gilba Solutions supply the latest seed genetics from the USA, NZ and European breeders. As a lawn seed supplier, you can be sure you get the best seed at the best price.

If using seed isn’t a viable option, we consider the use of turf pigments. These offer a low-cost alternative to seeding.

Seed Testing Programs.

NTEP is the world’s premier independent seed testing program, and runs at up to 19 locations in the USA. Any turf seed variety that performs well in these trials has done so under a wide range of conditions. This ensures it will perform whatever your conditions.

These trials study disease resistance, colour, wear tolerance and drought resistance.

Two other series of turf seed trials to look at are:

• The Turfgrass list. This is based in Europe, and includes Perennial ryegrass, turf-type tall fescue and creeping bentgrass;
• The British Society of Plant Breeders. They produce an annual grass seed book.

Our recent blog discusses improvements in sports turf perennial ryegrass.

Perennial Ryegrass Turf Seed.

What is Perennial ryegrass?

Perennial ryegrass seed is one of the world’s most widely used turf seeds for lawns and professional turf.

Three key reasons for this are:

• Perennial ryegrass has a great dark green colour.
• It germinates in 3 to 10 days.
• It has a higher shade tolerance than many other grass varieties.

Perennial ryegrass turf seed grows into a fine-leaved bunch-type turf grass. It has a strong root system, responds quickly to fertiliser and recovers quickly from wear.

It is a cool season (C3) grass that:

• Adapts to different soil types.
• Grows in full sun, and tolerates some shade.
• Handles close mowing down to as low as 5 mm.

Varieties like Intense perennial ryegrass have a high endophyte content. This means they are tolerant of stress like drought, and have a greater ability to resist insect attack.

In summary, turf-type perennial ryegrass is in use in almost every sports arena in Australia, and on the world’s finest golf courses.

You can be sure that when you purchase perennial ryegrass turf seed from Gilba Solutions, that the turf seed has a high level of disease resistance, superior colour and the highest possible wear tolerance.

We support these seed varieties with the best possible technical advice, whether for overseeding, colour or disease resistance.

Price of Perennial Ryegrass Turf Seed.

Perennial ryegrass seed varies from around $7 a Kg to over $10 depending on the variety.

Premium Perennial Ryegrass Varieties.

Intense Perennial Ryegrass Turf Seed.

Intense ryegrass is an improved US turf-type perennial ryegrass seed in Australia. In the recent NTEP trials, it performed well for turf quality and grey leaf spot resistance.

This is a turf seed that best suits heavy-use sports fields, golf courses and lawns that demand a quality surface. Intense PRG also tolerates a low height of cut. This makes Intense ideal for overseeding warm and cool-season grasses.

Slugger 3GL Turf Seed.

Slugger 3GL ryegrass is the No.1 perennial ryegrass turf seed in the 2022 NTEP trials. It has excellent colour, wear tolerance and disease resistance.

Reserve 2 Turf Seed.

Reserve 2 is an advance on the original zero endophyte Reserve perennial ryegrass, and has improved colour and winter growth.

Buy Perennial Ryegrass.

If you would like to purchase Intense PRG or Slugger 3GL turf seed.

NTEP Data for Ryegrass Turf Seed.

Below are the results of the most recent NTEP perennial ryegrass grass seed trials.

Tall Fescue Turf Seed.

Spyder 2LS Tall fescue Seed.

Spyder 2LS (Code number ZRC-1) is a 2nd generation tall fescue cultivar. It has excellent NTEP scores across all test locations. As premier turf and lawn seed suppliers we just love this grass.

Spyder 2LS has a fine-leaf, and spreads and grows laterally. It is wear tolerant and disease resistant, and is able to crowd out weeds.

Choose Spyder turf seed for an elite, high quality turf surface that needs a dense, compact coverage.

Warm Season Grass Seeds.

As lawn seed suppliers, we supply couch seed to the professional and home garden markets.

Couch Turf Seed.

Couch grass is a warm-season grass that:

• Thrives in full sun and in well drained soils.
• Tolerates heat, drought, wear and salt.
• Needs high maintenance and nutrient inputs.
• Is a perennial. This means it doesn’t need to be reseeded.
• Grows best in the late Spring, and in the hot Summer months.
• Stays green all year round if there aren’t any frosts. However, in many areas it goes dormant and brown over the Winter.
• To maintain turf appearance in the cooler months, it is often over-seeded with ryegrass turf seed to give Winter colour.

Couch is a C4 grass. It spreads by below-ground stems called rhizomes, and by above-ground stems called stolons. Due to its aggressive growth, Couch grass can be challenge to manage. However, it does have exceptional wear tolerance.

It recovers from damage far quicker than most other grasses. As a result, it is the most common grass for sports grounds, and golf course tees and fairways.

Unlike some warm-season grasses, couch grass grows both vegetatively and from seed. However, many common Couch varieties are only available vegetatively and not as turf seed.

Turf Seed Variety Chart.

Perennial Ryegrass and Fescue.

Couch and Kikuyu Turf Seed.

The Seed Used at Australia’s Top Venues.

Customers who Gilba Solutions have supplied grass seed to include:

• Comm Bank Stadium.
• ACT Parks and Places.
• Stadium Australia.
• Budgewoi Soccer Club.
• Federal GC.
• Bonnie Doon GC.
• Royal Canberra GC.
• Campbelltown Stadium.
• Liverpool Council and
• Sydney University.