Grass Mixture with Turf-Type Tall Fescue Used to Seed New Lawn and Patch Up Jobs - Grows in Sun or Shade, 10 lbs - Covers 1/20 Acre, Model:Grass Seed Mixture with

We used the Water Saver RTF seed to replace warm-season St. Augustine grass in the DFW area. We liked the promise of a deep root system, fine texture, and deep green color even under stress. Those were the prime factors for choosing it. If you buy it, don't stint on soil prep. Remove the old grass. Till, amend, and level the soil as recommended. We sowed the seed as the package instructs, added seed starter fertilizer, and then topped it all with 1/8 inch topping of organic humus and manure (The $1.65 a bag stuff at Home Depot-we used 30 bags). We kept it moist as directed (not soaked) and the first shoots started appearing at 5 days. Growth was dramatic. At 4 weeks, you wouldn't know the grass hasn't been growing there for years. It has produced a very lush-looking deep green lawn. It looks way nicer than I imagined it would and am happy about that. We HIGHLY recommend using the humus and manure as a topper. The seed covered by it sprouted faster and thicker than in the small areas we had that weren't as well covered by it. Now, will it survive our hot summers? I don't know. Time will tell. Right now the grass is gorgeous, my wife is happy, and I like it too.September 2022:All those NICE comments above remain true... BUT... After our summer of drought and temps topping 110 degrees F and not cooling off much at night, NO amount of watering could keep it alive. To be fair, SOME of it is still alive, but 99.9% of it is DEAD - NOPE, no root survival either. HOWEVER, the 1/100th of a percent that's still alive is certainly TOUGH and it's still GREEN. If it continues to grow, and if it actually spreads, then my lawn may be a deep, dark green fescue lawn again in 10-15 years time... Will I start over or stay put? Frankly, I'm not going to get rid of what's left of the Water Saver RTF, but I think it might do better in hot (transitional zone) climates if mini white clover is seeded with it. WHY? The clover fixes nitrogen into the soil that the fescue can use and will also provide some shading and cooling for it as well. If they can play nice together, the mini While Clover might better protect the Water Saver RTF from extreme summer conditions. If there is any useful news regarding my ongoing experience with Water Saver RTF, I'll provide updates. My opinion as of now is that Water Saver RTF is way over-rated for SOUTHERN TRANSITIONAL ZONE heat tolerance and durability. "Water-Saver" is misleading because there is no standard of reference to measure it against. It may be a water saver somewhere, but not HERE. It's also possible that, since some of the grass survived - and survived pretty well all considered - the Water Saver RTF blend may need to be better balanced for heat tolerance and more aggressive in growth... For now, for me, Crimson Clover for a winter lawn cover crop, Mini White Clover for a ground cover this spring... My Water Saver RTF - well it's certainly going to have a hard time proving itself... BUT I would like to see it succeed... But, NOPE, I'm not holding my breath...

I used 25 pounds of seed to overseed my 5000 square foot lawn in mid-September. Results are very impressive, lawn is thick and green. No review yet on how well this fescue variety spreads to fill-in gaps, I guess I’ll see how that works out come spring.If over seeding don’t skip soil preparation. Cut the lawn short, about 1-1/2 inches. Either power rake the lawn, or use a flexible metal tined rake to expose the lawn soil. It’s extra work, but seed that doesn’t get into contact with the soil won’t grow.Overseed generously, I use 5 pounds per thousand square feet. Cover the seed with peat moss, I used two 3 cubic foot compressed bags per thousand square feet. Yes, more work, but peat moss holds in moisture and covers the seed, ensuring good germination.Make sure the seed is fresh. There’s a label on every seed bag that lists the seed types and the seed test date. That date should ideally be no more than six months ago. My seed test date was only a month before I received the seed, very fresh. If the test date is old, get a refund and buy fresh seed.Water, water, water. Keep lawn moist, not soaking, by watering lightly at least 2x times a day for the first week. Mother Nature helped me out in this one, we had lots of wet days in the weeks after I seeded. Don’t mow until the grass is at least 3” high, and minimize lawn traffic.

The seeds were good but not for Texas. The seeds germinated but didn't survive the Summer. It's for cold places. Sorry my bad, I was unaware. By the time they germinated and died , the return windw was out. Sowed last year end 2019, it came out good but died few weeks back due to heat.

This grass seed has a high germination rate, fewer weeds and looks great. The grass requires less water to keep looking good.

This grass seed was a great disappointment. Some of the seed grew beautiful grass but some of it was wide blade, light green, ugly grass that looked like weeds with thick roots. I have used Barenbrug RTF grass seed several times in 50 pound bags previously for overseeding and for filling some bare spots and it grew beautiful grass that was fine and dark green. I never had any of it to grow looking like this. I contacted Barenbrug and asked them to make sure the bag I received was actually from them. They verified that the lot number was one if there’s. I stopped using the grass seed because it was making my yard look bad.

It will take awhile to judge but initial took about 3 weeks to sprout up, warmer temps above 60 at night helped. A couple spots it's grown great, a few spots were I skipped prep didn't grow, and one spot initially came in and fizzled out. This was a spring playing so I'm guessing for fall will be great with weeds not growing then.

Bought this RTF seed because I needed a tuff lawn for my active dog. Had been overgrown with moss, which was removed first. New loam, a preemergent that doesn't destroy new seeds, seeded, kept wet. One week later, Beautiful spouts everywhere!!! It helps with the spring rains we are getting now too!

Im in southeast Nebraska. Sprayed 1000 sq ft of my back yard weed patch of a lawn with round up Aug 11th then threw down this RTF seed aug 25th. Set my sprinkler timer to water it down 4 times a day for 15 minutes each time. It was sprouting in 5 days. The green pic was taken 21 days after planting the seed. In my mind this should be the only grass anyone should ever plant. Its tough, drought tolerate, low maintenance, and it spreads. This is going to be fun to see how it matures into next summer. I will try to update this review next September.