BOTTLEBRUSH GRASS
LOCAL
PASTURE SEED
Excellent foggage and easy to establish bottlebrush variety.
Bottlebrush Local is a perennial sub-tropical summer grass suitable for grazing, hay and foggage.
Ideal planting time ranges during October to February.
PERENNIAL
SUMMER
PASTURE
GRASS
SUB-TROPICAL
TYPE
350-380 000
SEEDS
PER KG
- Sub-tropical, grass type
- Perennial, summer production period
- Easy to establish and tolerant to drought
- Poor stands thicken up with time if it is well managed
- Excellent foggage, grass grown for winter grazing
- Crude protein: 7 - 12 %
- Digestibility: 48 - 58 %
- Used for grazing, hay, foggage, grass grown for winter grazing
- Best adapted to sandy soil types, tolerates loam and gravely soils
- Plant during October - February
- Seeding rate: 5 - 6 kg/ha dryland