Best grass seed

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Can anyone recommend a no fuss grass seed for bald patches? There seems to be getting more and more bald patches every time I look. I don't have any pets, the garden is not in the shade and I've never seen any cats in there so I have no idea what is causing this eye sore. Have tried grass seed (can't remember the name) which DP bought it worked in some the bigger patches but the small ones will not budge. Preferably one I can buy in a shop so I can get started with it. I don't know why this is happening, it's happened at the front too and refused to grow. It's the only one like this in the whole estate and was alright before we moved in.

Any tips welcome also. Never had to maintain a garden before to complete novices. We just raked it a little, put the seed down and water it most days. But that didn't work in a lot of patches.

We bought a box of seed from Asda - it was lock down and we wanted to be sure we could replenish as needed. The house is a new build and we thought £1000 for turf was too much to spend. Any how, it's worked really well and the lawn is doing ok. For the bald spots, we rake the patch a little, put a bit of compost down then grass seed and lightly cover with topsoil. It's taken the 16 weeks of lockdown to get it looking like a lawn.

Photo from today.
It's taken about 3 boxes of seed and 8 bags of topsoil to get to this.

Nice work, Mrs or Miss

OP, if the soil is compacted, even grass won't grow. I would either dig a little to shake it up, and puncture it with a fork. Then add a little compost and reseed. And water. I

Also, it can take longer than the timeframes suggested on the box. I think the MiracleGro ones say 5 days, but it took us nearly a month to see a blade of grass from the seed. I was on the verge of buying a different product.

Is the compost different to top soil? Or do they both do the same job?

Compost is decaying matter - basically plant food - and this will continue to breakdown. We've just put another layer of soil in the raised planter because the compost has dropped so much.
Top soil is just soil.
We used both as the soil we had was pretty heavy and full of clay. We debated used well rotted manure instead of compost but we didn't want our new neighbours to hate us!
We put layers of both - soil and compost - in the garden so the earth would be 'fed'. If you look in the picture of the ground Pre grass, we had to break up the soil as much as possible so the new soil and compost could mix in. We also bought a bag of earth worms from the fishing tackle shop and spread over it all. They disappeared pretty quickly and are still doing their job. Every now and then we find a worm crawling in the grass.

It has taken and a few visits to the garden centre to pick up more soil, but it's not such a chore and our garden looks a lot better than our neighbours who went with the turf option. The builders had to take up the first lot of their turf and earth because they hadn't levelled the garden before laying.