Hybrid SPF-30 Kentucky Bluegrass Seed

Been mixing with turf type tall fescue for past 4 years in 1 acre full sun Ohio lawn. Not perfect as it still suffers damage from drought and heavy use (dogs and grandkids) However, it recovers strong and thick I am now to the point that I do not need to seed damage as it will self repair. Germinates well with early season sowing, but not as fast as fescue.

This seed takes some nurturing to get started. You can expect to see seedlings about 2-3 weeks out. At around 5-6 weeks you'll see the grass starting to get stronger and thicker. However, don't expect things to look lush till around 8 weeks. There will still be some seedlings that didn't take or are still small. At this point if, put down some weed and feed to kill off the weeds that came in to overtake the new seedlings and help grow the grass the rest of the way. It's important to note: Not to fertilize or place weed killer down on new grass, until it's stabilized. Most products say to wait a month, I would wait the 2 months for this brand. In the meantime, manually pull out any large weeds/crabgrass and mow the other grass low (If you're over-seeding).

I did like the information told me to do and the grass never sprouted.

Compared to other varieties, this one had very low yield. It was planted in three areas. The first area was a new planting on fresh loam. The second area was a reseed. The third, which is adjacent to the second, was a top seed. For the first area, the spread loam was prepared with half the typical density of starter fertilizer, which has provided great results for us in other such plantings with other seed. The seed germinated and blue grass did emerge, but it is rather sparse. The plants that did emerge are now over 1.5 inches. At this germination yield, we need at least three times the seeding density compared to other seeds to produce a sustainable lawn. We often get these results with seed that is too old. We will have to reseed this area. For the second area, we power raked away the dead grass, tilled in about a half inch of compost to a depth of two inches, applied the seed, and then top dressed with about three-eighths inch of loam. The third area was also power raked to dethatch it and it was top seeded with the remaining seed, since the fescue grass there was already established, although all of the second and third areas were in full sun. The second and third areas were carefully monitored for moisture to ensure they did not dry out and because of the cooperation of the rain, the sprinklers only had to be used twice in three weeks. In the second area, the germination yield appears to match what we saw in the first area, but they are about equalled by the germination of weeds. In the third area, we cannot make a determination, since any new blue grass sprouts could be mistaken for spreading fescue and vice versa. Overall, given the cost of this seed, it is of lesser value to us than the Scotts or Lessco offerings. If we could have had similar germination rates, and the promise of the color and look would have materialized, we would not have minded the cost difference since the labor and other materials cost a lot more. However, the consequence of having to do much of the work again has made this a bad investment. I gave the seed three stars, because if we would have seeded it very heavily, we might have been okay with it - although I am just assuming that the rest of the vendor's claims are true about the quality of the color and drought tolerance. Maybe the problem was just that they sent old, water damaged, or heat-damaged seed, but we have no way of knowing.

First last fall i did a small test 4x8 area as this was new grass i never tried. So it came in about 4 weeks very green but short. After a hard winter i notice once all snow was gone yet still cold this test area was green existing grass brown. The look is short and not like what we grow in New England. If i were ripping out my lawn, while expensive, it would look great. I decided to use the rest of the seed i set aside to use this spring for over seeding in front yard. In my back yard i have a lot of foot traffic and may reseed with this . I only gave a 4 as price is high. It is very green which is great

My lawn had more bald spots than my family reunion. It was bad and embarrassing. Really obvious and whenever it rained, we had a problem with erosion that was just getting worse and worse. I tried glass plugs, fertilizers, rabbit droppings, organic compost, nematodes - you name it. Nothing was helping. So I went looking and found these seeds. We were JUST finishing a brutal Texas summer. I read the reviews, ordered a 5 lb bag and waited for the heat to break. A&M knows their animals and agriculture. If they had put their seal of approval on it, then that was good enough for me! On a wing and a prayer I got the ground wet and used a metal rake to make some mini furrows in the really big bald spots/erosion areas. I scattered about 1/2 a bag like it was chicken feed. Watered it in and waited. Every day I gave it a nice little soak with the hose to try to keep it damp. Always tried to water in morning so would have sun to help dry and feed. Watched it like a mother hen.... it was my last hope. St Augustine grass replant was LONG past. We were coming up on winter at that point, but things were so horrible and my hope was fading...I was seriously thinking about spray paint (from a distance to just give it a "hint" of green")....and then I saw it.... Little itty bitty teeny weeny shoots of green!!!! My lawn had a buzz cut. And it did take awhile, but they grew! Not everywhere I was working on (because some rainstorms = washed away seeds before they could grow), but enough so that my lawn had a dusting of green instead of brown at a distance. No spray paint needed!!! It had only been visibly growing about a month when the cold fronts started coming in. I figured - at least for $35 it looked ok for Halloween... BUT THE GRASS HAS HELD ON THROUGH WINTER!!! Granted we have had a MILD winter, but there was still some freezes. Still there!!! in fact it was SO SUCCESSFUL I finished the bag once the weather warmed up and break in rain. Ordered another bag that I'll use to help focus on any stubborn spots that haven't taken yet + work on my backyard. I'M THRILLED! Yes, I will water and watch these every day until they sprout but once they do they seem to be as hardy as they come!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I live in Dallas, TX where it's likely too hot for this to grow and last, but I'm giving this a shot anyway. We can't grow grass in our front yard due to dense shade. We have a couple of big oaks, but our neighbors on both sides of us have a ton of trees and they don't trim them so they shade our yard too. We've sodded our yard 5 times in 9 years and refuse to spend more money on it. Our front yard is hard dirt/clay. I didn't even want to spend the money in putting some top soil down with this seed. So I just put the seed in the spreader and put it down on the hard impacted ground. I also did this around May 10 - when it's already hot here. I watered a good amount, though only on our watering days (but both morning and night and multiple short cycles each so it was quite a bit of water). It took about two weeks and then much to my surprise, beautiful grass started popping up. I would definitely overseed - places where lots of seed went down came in very well. I will say that I haven't seen much growth since then, but it's been torrential storms here every day (mass flooding/90 mph winds/tornado) for the past week. Looks like the weather should be improving from a rain standpoint, but now the super hot weather will be moving in so we'll see what happens. The takeaway is that with no preparation during inhospitable conditions but doing appropriate watering, this did start growing well. I wish I had put it down earlier in the season because I'm impressed with how much came up when I did it. I may try again in the fall once we're out of the dog days of summer. Oh, and I didn't see any weeds come up like a few people reported.

So, I have planted oodles and gobs of grass in my 66yrs. The company spec’d a 14-21 day germination on this which is quite long. Try 4-6weeks. Grass reached a max height of 1-2” and is now just turning brown. It ain’t even hot-hot yet. We have had a quite cool spring by southern KS standards with plenty of rain beyond the watering I did. Part of the problem with a grass that takes that long is crabgrass is up by the end of week 1. Weeds by week 2. This stuff was 4-6 weeks. I have a REALLY THICK AND LUSH crop of crabgrass and weeds with my now dying SPF30. You can’t spray the weeds and crabgrass yet.