My poor lawn

For grass seed, it needs lots of water, and it has been a drought for a long time!
It needs covering up with fine soil.Unless you water it a lot, it won't grow, and yes, birds do take a percentage of it.
Hyrangeas can be made to change to blue, there are lots of things if you look in a garden centre.Sorry can't remember the names ( and I have two lots of it sitting in the shed.)

Not until June. Through June. You need to wait.

I shall ask, but I believe it was just best quality bagged fine top soil. I was potting, I dusted extra potting soil over the grass last we seeded. I'll let you know if that helped later this month. We need a certain amount of soil warmth for the seeds to start, pretty cold yet.

Have you changed colours of hydrangeas by amending with fertiliser? I like some big fluffy pink and some big bunches of blue for contrast.

DH talking about removing the bare bits and replacing it with slices of turf. I will take your advice and keep at it until June Norah . When you said special soil, is it just a good fine top soil or special soil for grass?

DH says that if you do not kill moss it will spread and ultimately kill all the grass. I asked to leave the moss this year (like last year) but it was too much and had to be done and raked. Thin layer of bagged special soil, seeded, grass fertiliser, and a bit of water. We will keep reseeding through June. It will take, eventually.

I am so impatient though Norah and wish we had never used the stupid moss killer, which was DH's brilliant idea.

Do you think I should keep seeding?

When we kill moss we have splotchy grass for at least 6 months. This is that year, quite ugly. Seed, water, wait.

Thanks for the link Jalima1108 some useful tips. DH has been watering with a general purpose fertiliser but might be wise to invest in some specially made for lawns.

They will ignore the bird seed and head straight for the lawn seed
I don't know why we don't just buy bags of lawn seed for them - it would be cheaper.

Probably birds then like jalima said.

Living on the NE coast I can't imagine we will ever be hit by a hosepipe ban merlot (I nearly said "I wish"). We have been watering the seed though as we haven't had much rain lately.

We don't live near the sea but get seagulls as well - someone round here must feed them as they come swooping in once a day nearby and then visit other gardens to see if there is any bread going spare.

It could be that the weather is just too dry at the moment, gilly. If things don't improve there will be hosepipe bans so this may not be a good time to do any re-seeding.

I think September would be the best time to have another go if you can live with a patchy lawn till then by which time we will ALL have patchy lawns

Did you put fertiliser down afterwards?
www.lawnsmith.co.uk/topic/moss-control-removal/after-getting-rid-of-moss

However, DH thinks the birds do eat quite a lot of the seed when he has filled in patches on our lawn - little so and so's - they get fed with bird seed as well!

We don't get many birds tbh Jalima1108 as living close to the sea the rats with wings seagulls keep the nice garden birds away.

Do you have a lot of birds which visit your garden gillybob? They could be having a dawn feast!

Can you put netting over the lawn while the new seed germinates?

Oh wash your mouth out glammanana Artificial grass indeed!

My neighbours on the left have it, however you look at it, its still artificial. My son has part of his garden done in artificial lawn as my DGS is a keen footballer and their poor "real" lawn couldn't cope with the sliding tackles!

I think maybe you're right about the moss killer still working on the soil. I wish we had just lived with the moss, it wasn't that bad.

gillybob my very tounge in cheek answer would be to relay with artificial grass lol,I would imagine the moss killer is still working on the soil and you may have to turn the soil quite a few times to get any growth.