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Forum DIET & CARE Cheap grass seed in UK

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    • Gina.Jenny
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        I mentioned to a friend of mine I was thinking about growing some grass for the bunnies, and she told me she’d been feeding this stuff to the ducks in her garden, and the ducks had scattered it. Some ended up seeding itself in the gravel drive way, and she now has a wild bunny coming to eat this grass. Given the price, I bought some, and a week later, the first batch is about a cm tall, and the next batch is sewn. The main ingredient is wheat seed. Plan is to keep sewing small batches each week, so as the growth in the garden slows down, I’ll have batches of grass ready. Ideally, I’ll grow enough for a few portions a week throughout the autumn and winter, and I’m hoping to get at least a second cutting from each batch too! Home Bargains sell a similar mix for the same price.

        I’m using empty food containers, such as the plastic ones mushrooms and strawberries come in, with just a thin layer of cheap compost.


      • Azerane
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          I’m not sure about that stuff, the wheat and barley would be perfectly fine which is what people normally grow for rabbits, however I’m not sure that sunflower sprouts/greens are safe for rabbits in addition to whatever else may be in the mix. If you have a fodder store you may find bags of wheat (usually for chicken feed) quite cheap, there shouldn’t be any reason it won’t sprout.

          I currently sprout bird seed (for my parrot), as it’s much healthier than the seeds themselves, although it’s fed much earlier than when you grow wheat for bunnies.


        • Gina.Jenny
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            There aren’t any fodder stores locally, but this is a pretty basic mix of wheat and other grasses, some bird pellets, which will just stay safely in the compost, and sunflower seeds. Bunny hugga lists sunflower as safe, as do some of the other bunny food lists? 

            http://www.bunnyhugga.com/a-to-z/feeding/poisonous-plants.html

            I would think anything non-grass would be easy enough to separate out, and with the sunflowers, if any grow, I’ll go for the usual, try a tiny bit, then if everybun n pig is OK, a bit more a few days later. Its the grass I’m after, and the plan is the harvest before anything goes to seed, as bam just posted in another thread, once the grass goes to seed, the grass becomes less nutritious. Nice big blades of grass is what I’m hoping for!


          • Gina.Jenny
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              Looking good this morning 


            • jerseygirl
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                Nom nom.

                You’d be surprised how much sprouts from hay thats been composted or thrown directly in the garden. I always had luscious oat grass growing where I’d thrown out old litter.
                Last year I got some wheat heads in with my oat hay and I stuck them straight in the flower bed. I have a clump of new wheat growing now. There is not a full grain in the wheat or oat heads from the hay but there must be enough of a germ to propagate a new plant.


              • Bam
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                  It looks lovely! I’ve just cut my bunny-wheatgrass for the first time. Buns were really pleased!

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