Turf Type Tall Fescue Grass Seed, Sun & Shade Blend, 3 lb. Bag

Put this seed out a couple weeks ago. Covered half with peat moss and the other half with compost and mist of all it was germinated in 10 days ( 90%). The remainder was about another 5-10 days. I live in zone 8b. Very happy with the results. Very dark green. Will be over seeding this fall

This is great Grass seat. Let me tell you it works wonders. I highly recommended highly highly highly recommend it. It’s worth the price. Great growth rate great quality greenness very much value for your money. Great generation rate it is fantastic.

Color is pretty good, definitely a decent green, but if you like super dark cultivars this maybe isn’t the one. The 20lb bag would also be a lot better value at 25lbs instead. But if you need more than 20lbs you enter a territory where you could get a more premium seed for around the same price. This is good for smaller areas in a pinch.

I have yet to seed the lawn...waiting for fall. But as a test I put a small amount into a cup with some soil from the yard, a few drops of water twice a day. After about 5 days...multiple signs of germination WITHOUT ANY fertilizer. I can't speak to the percentage but the one star reviewers stating NO growth probably killed it with heat/lack of moisture/poor soil. I will adjust the review after seeding the lawn.

My new house came with a lawn full of weeds and I didn’t get a chance to start treating the yard until mid-October. By this point in the season, you’ve pretty much missed the chance to overhaul the lawn, especially since my yard is almost entirely in the shade through fall and winter. But I decided to try anyway… Killed off the weeds and waited 2 weeks to lay this grass seed. Laid the seed and starter fertilizer on October 25, 2021. First picture is from November 1st and no sign of grass yet; it took about 2 weeks to start seeing signs of germination. Second picture is from 4 weeks after seeding and there is patchy, but decent signs of growth that continued slowly in December. The grass held up through a few nasty snow storms in the winter. Third picture is from March 2022 after I cleaned up the winter debris and over seeded and filled in bare spots. By April, almost all bare spots were filled and very few weeds had popped up. This grass is phenomenal. It grew under dark and cold conditions and is now in the full sun during spring and summer. It is holding up under both conditions well and has yet to lose its color. My yard is now the talk of the neighborhood; am surrounded by gardening nuts and everyone was horrified when I killed off my patch of weeds to plant this last fall. But they all love how this is growing now and keep asking me for tips and tricks for how I keep the grass as green as it is. It’s all about the seed and this one is great. We are expecting significant sewer line work in the summer that’s going to result in them tearing up this gorgeous lawn, so I already bought a new bag of this seed so that I can reestablish the lawn. It’s truly beautiful and healthy grass - I highly recommend it!

My front yard had a lot of patchy spots and I level the yard with top soil. I added this grass seed to the yard and watered daily. The grass did not germinate and I was left with the same patchy areas.

Bought a 20lb bag of fresh GreenView 2829348 Fairway Formula grass seed with an inspection date of Sept 2021. Had the yard core aerated before heavy rainfall (2 to 3 inches) two days prior to applying starter fertilizer. Spread seed the following day, Sept. 15, 2021. Watered twice daily for two weeks. Temperatures were ideal throughout this period. Averaged 60 degrees at night and low seventies daytime. Approximately only 5% germination rate after two weeks. The following two weeks I had much improved germination, perhaps 50% or more. However, along with the grass seed I had heavy germination of oxalis stricta weeds (woodsorrel) througout my front, back and side yards . Approximately 10% of my yard is now covered in oxalis. I can't put herbicide down to kill the oxalis until the grass is well establish. When I do, I'll have large patches of dead weeds until spring when I can again reseed (the oxalis patches are very thick and there is no grass growing where they exist). I have never had oxalis in my yard before and there is none in my neighbors yards. I can only conclude that there were lots of oxalis seeds mixed in with the grass seed. A lot of work, expense and time expended with mixed results. I'm rather disappointed with this GreenView seed due to slow germination and a lot of oxalis weed seed in the mixture.

I have tried over 6 different Tall Fescue mixes on my lawn this summer. They all grew nicely despite being planted in the middle of a relatively hot upstate New York summer (when almost all the 'experts' say you should not plant new seed). Of all the seeds planted, which range from the household names you find in the big box stores to premium seeds that are approximately double the price, this GreenView Turf Type Tall Fescue Sun & Shade blend by far APPEARS to be the thickest, healthiest, greenest, and most durable of the bunch. I have one more seed I am going to try when I overseed a section of my lawn in the next week or two, and I will update this review if that seed outperforms Greenview. But right now this seed has taken longer to germinate than all of the others I have tried (closer to 2 weeks vs. 4 days for the quickest of the household name seeds), but it’s worth the wait. The grass has come in beautiful and nearly 2x thicker than the other brands. 2x thicker and 2x the price = the same price for the same coverage, plus Greenview is lusher and looks much more durable. I will use again regardless of how my final seed test turns out.