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Sowing or renovating lawns
Spring is also great time to either sow or renovate your lawn.
Nothing beats a nice looking lawn and using cultivars that require low maintenance is a real bonus.
Specialty Seeds have a range of different seed mixes to suit both larger lawns typically found in country areas, right down to smaller situations such as your small backyard city lawn.
Legacy Lawn Seed
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Different from the norm?
If you have an area that may be different from the norm, please feel free to contact us as we have had many years of experience in the turf business and we are backed up with a wide range of top quality lawn seeds and fertilisers that can help.
Industry contacts
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2013 Spring Brassicas sow down options
Brassica provide high quality feed at times when this kind of feed can be in short supply. Below is a summary of nearly all the brassica options available to you currently.
Swede cultivars
Swedes are a slow maturing winter greenfeed crop used as a single graze option. Normally sown October and November.
Sowing Rate: 0.8 - 1.5 kgs per hectare
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Cultivar
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Skin Colour
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Days to Maturity
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Product information
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Aparima Gold
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Yellow Fleshed
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170 - 230
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Highest yielding main crop swede, a potential yield of 18,000 kg DM/ha. Bred and trialed by Plant & Food Research for NZ grazing systems.
Yellow-fleshed bulb with medium maturity. Clubroot and dry rot tolerant. Excellent keeping qualities with high leaf percentage.
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Dominion
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Yellow Fleshed
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170 - 210
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Dominion swede is a traditional high-yielding yellow fleshed main-crop swede. Relative to Doon Major, Dominion has improved leaf retention in winter.
Dominion has a good record of performance and provides a good traditional first crop yellow-fleshed swede, with excellent flavour.
Download the Dominion swede brochure
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Highlander
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White Fleshed
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180 - 250
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Main crop swede. White-fleshed bulb. Later Maturing.
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HT Swede
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Yellow Fleshed
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170 - 230
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HT Swede is part of the Cleancrop brassica system.
Click here for more information the Clean crop brassica system
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Keystone
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White Fleshed
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170 - 250
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Highest dry rot tolerance of all commercially available swedes. High yielding, main crop swede.
Download the Keystone Swede brochure
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Invitation
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Yellow Fleshed
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170 - 250
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Invitation is a late maturing, yellow-fleshed swede, with high bulb and leaf yield. It provides excellent winter feed for sheep, cattle and deer.
Download the Invitation Swede brochure
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Major Plus
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Yellow Fleshed
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150 - 230
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A main crop, early maturing, soft bulbed swede. Bred and trialed by Plant & Food Research for New Zealand grazing systems. Good yielding swede with a potential of 16,000 kg DM/ha. Yellow-fleshed, light purple skinned bulb.
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Summer Turnip cultivars
A fast growing turnip single graze summer feed option typically ready to use between 60-90 days after planting in October / November.
Sowing Rate: 1 - 3 kgs per hectare
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Cultivar
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Ploidy type
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Days to Maturity
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Product information
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Barkant
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Diploid
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60-90
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Highest yielding summer bulb turnip available, a potential yield 15,000kg DM/ha.
High leaf to bulb ratio resulting in high levels of protein. Early maturing for excellent summer feed.
Download the Barkant Turnip brochure
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Dynamo
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Diploid
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60-90
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Contact Specialty Seeds for more information.
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Marco
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Diploid
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55-65
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Marco tetraploid turnip is the fastest establishing turnip, meaning less days out of pasture. High quality tetraploid turnip for greater animal performance benefits.
Download the Marco Turnip brochure for more information.
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Rival
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Tetraploid
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84-98
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Rival summer turnip is an early-maturing tankard-shaped bulb turnip bred for high leaf production.
Rival is ideally used as part of a pasture renovation program on dairy farms that have a period of dry and/or a loss of pasture quality through January and February.
Download the Rival Turnip brochure for more information.
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SF Envy
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Tetraploid
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60-90
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SF Envy is a quick maturing (60 – 90 days) tankard turnip for summer/autumn utilisation.
Download the SF Envy Turnip brochure for more information.
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SF White star
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Tetraploid
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90-110
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SF White Star is a mid maturing (90 – 110 days) stubble turnip for flexible use. Use to extend grazing period alongside SF Envy or as an autumn sown option for late autumn/winter feed.
Download the SF White Star Turnip brochure for more information.
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Winter Turnip cultivars
Winter turnips are used as a single graze winter feed option typically sown in January - February.
Sowing Rate: 0.5 - 2 kgs per hectare
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Cultivar
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Days to Maturity
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Product information
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Appin
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90 - 120
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High leaf yields from multi-crowned bulbs. Excellent regrowth potential. Firmly anchored for minimum wastage. Clubroot tolerant
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Green Globe
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90 - 120
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Multi-purpose product can be sown for grazing in summer, autumn and winter. Most winter hardy bulb turnip available. Good yield potential (10,000kg DM/ha).
Download the Green Globe Turnip brochure
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HT Bulb turnip
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90 - 120
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HT Bulb turnip is part of the Cleancrop brassica system.
Click here for more information the Clean crop brassica system
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New York
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110
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New York turnip is a medium-maturity winter turnip, bred as a York globe replacement. It is a white-fleshed, purple-skinned, oval-bulbed, diploid turnip.
Click here for more information the New York turnip brochure
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SF G2
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110
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SF G2 is a later maturing turnip (110+ days), planted in summer/early autumn for winter feed.
Click here for more information the SF G2 brochure
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York Globe
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110
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Contact Specialty Seeds for more details
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SF White star
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90-110
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SF White Star is a mid maturing (90 – 110 days) stubble turnip for flexible use. Use to extend grazing period alongside SF Envy or as an autumn sown option for late autumn/winter feed.
Download the SF White Star Turnip brochure for more information.
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Rape cultivars
Rapes are fast maturing crops that can be either multi grazed or single grazed. Supply's high quality feed for summer, autumn or winter depending on feed requirements.
Sowing Rate: 3 - 4 kgs per hectare
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Cultivar
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Regrowth
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Days to Maturity
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Product information
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Bonar
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Good
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90 - 110
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High forage yield and quality. Excellent autumn/early winter feed option. Later maturing, good regrowth potential. Can be sown in Spring and Autumn.
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Giant
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Poor
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90 - 100
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Contact Specialty Seeds for more information
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Goliath
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Good
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90 - 110
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A new generation rape x kale interspecies cross. Bred and trialled by Plant & Food Research (NZ) for New Zealand grazing systems.
Highest yielding multi graze giant rape available, a potential yield of 10,500kg DM/ha.
Multi-purpose forage rape with excellent summer/ autumn/early winter feed.
Superior regrowth potential with excellent winter keeping properties. Good aphid tolerance.
Download the Goliath forage rape brochure for more information
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Greenland
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Good
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70 - 84
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Very late flowering, leafy type. Medium plant height. Good palatability with aphid tolerance.
Multi-graze flexibility. Summer/autumn/winter feed option.
Download the Greenland forage rape brochure for more information
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HT Rape
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Good
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75 - 90
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HT Rape is part of the Cleancrop brassica system.
Click here for more information the Clean crop brassica system
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Interval
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Good
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90 - 110
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Contact Specialty Seeds for more information
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Leafmore
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Good
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42 - 55
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Contact Specialty Seeds for more information
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Spitfire
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Good
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90 - 100
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Spitfire is a multi-purpose rape that can be sown in spring for lamb or cattle finishing or summer dairy grazing, or sown in mid-summer to early-autumn for autumn and winter grazing.
Download the Spitfire rape brochure for more information
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Titan
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Good
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70 - 90
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A new generation rape x kale interspecies cross. Bred and trialled by Plant & Food Research (NZ) for New Zealand grazing systems.
Highest yielding multi-graze, intermediate height rape available with a potential yield of 10,000kg DM/ha.
Highest animal preference cultivar available.
Excellent aphid and virus tolerance.
Download the Titan forage rape brochure for more information
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Rangi
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Good
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90 - 100
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Contact Specialty Seeds for more information
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Winfred
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Good
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70 - 84
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Winfred is a very versatile brassica, as it is suited to a wide range of soil fertility and environmental conditions, and is either spring and/or late-summer sown.
Download the Winfred rape brochure for more information
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Leafy Rape cultivars
Also known as forage brassica are a cross between rape and turnips that are normally used for summer / autumn feed as an alternative to the slower maturing rapes
Sowing Rate: 3 - 4 kgs per hectare
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Cultivar
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Days to first grazing
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Product information
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HT Leafy Turnips
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40 - 55
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HT Leafy Turnips are part of the Cleancrop brassica system.
Click here for more information the Clean crop brassica system
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Hunter
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42 - 56
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Hunter is a quick-growing, leafy turnip, with minimal bulb development and is best suited to multiple grazings.
Download the Hunter Leafy Rape brochure for more information
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Pasja II
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42 - 70
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High yields from successive grazings (potential yield of 12,000kg DM/ha over multiple grazings). Fast establishing, high quality feed ready for grazing within 42-70 days of sowing.
Excellent plant persistence after multiple grazings. Provides a flexible grazing option for all stock classes over summer and autumn. Minimal ripening requirement.
Download the Pasja Forage brassica brochure for more information
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SF Pacer
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45 - 50
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SF Pacer is suited to medium-high fertility soils with summer moisture or irrigation, providing multiple grazings to meet summer and early autumn feed requirements.
Download the SF Pacer Forage brassica brochure for more information
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Download: Click here to download the
Brassica Growing Guide
Downloads: Click here to go to the
Specialty Seeds Download's page for downloadable information guides.
Contact Link: Contact Specialty Seeds for help selecting the right brassica for your farm.
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Kind Regards
Stephen Finch & David Percival
Specialty Seeds - New Zealand
