1952 Jrnl. Brit. Grassland Soc. 7 9 If this last crop is something which can be harvested moderately early, for example peas, or winter oats, there is a possibility of an autumn reseed under a cereal for grazing which will make another useful contribution to winter feed supplies. Otherwise the reseed will come in the spring.

1964 Times 7 July (Suppl. Agric.) p. v/3 The established grass field may outyield spring reseeds by 40-50 per cent.

1973 Stornoway Gaz. 2 June 4/3 Maybe you're sleeping soundly o' nights, dreaming of all your frisky lambs and ewes on the surging reseeds.

1991 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 28 947 Reseeds are areas of high-quality grassland formed by improving the indigenous heather moorland or semi-natural grassland.

1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 206/3 He argues that the grasses ‘run out’ for want of seed, and he directs to cultivate with hoed crops a year or two, followed by Winter grain; then re-seed, and all will be right again.

1909 Science 25 June 996/1 The Forest Service will be in a position..to reseed large areas each year.

1940 R. G. Stapledon War Food Production Advisory Bull. No. 1 26 The field was twenty-five acres, of which fifteen were re-seeded.

1970 Watsonia 8 193 A large area where the Cerastium used to grow had been re-seeded.

2004 Rangelands 26 10/2 They also developed and released many varieties of native and introduced grasses that have been used to reseed pastures and rangelands.

1895 22nd Ann. Rep. State Board Agric. 1894–5 435 In plowing it [sc. crimson clover] under in orchards some recommend that the heads be left sticking out, so that it will reseed itself.

1929 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 32 84 Goat grass has been very difficult to eradicate due to the extreme ease with which it reseeds itself.

1963 Austral. Encycl. VI. 27/1 The east-coast tree which extends to New Caledonia, surviving repeated fires and re-seeding heavily.

1992 Internat. Wildlife May–June 17/2 A strip-shelterbelt system, which relies on the forest's natural ability to reseed itself.

2008 Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune (Nexis) 1 Oct. Some consider it [sc. a butterfly bush] to be almost a weed because it reseeds even though it has beautiful, long-lasting flowers.

1929 Sci. News-let. 16 379/1 The normal course of events in a re-seeded forest area after lumbering or a fire brings about severe overcrowding..among the young trees.

1940 R. G. Stapledon War Food Production Advisory Bull. No. 1 26 The re-seeded portion of the field had the best grass.

2006 N. Boatman in R. Davison & C. A. Galbraith Farming, Forestry, & Nat. Heritage iv. 48 Reseeded grasslands tend to have a more uniform sward structure and surface topography than unimproved grasslands.