Scotts Turf Builder Grass Seed Dense Shade Mix for Tall Fescue Lawns, Grows With As Little As 3 Hours of Sunlight, 7 lbs.

Growth rate was massive, pack yard covered with greenness, very quality and affordable, I recommend this to everyone

I am going out of my way to write this review as I am not a horticulturist. My EX landscaper put down crabgrass germination inhibitor in the spring. This, I learned, inhibits the germination of ALL seeds. My lawn was looking "tired" so I waited until the fall before laying this seed. It would not germinate. I watched the seed seem to turn to mulch over the winter. To my joy and surprise every place I seeded a half a year earlier germinated. Thick, green and healthy. No waste at all. Beautiful and amazing. I live in northern New Jersey to give perspective. I still have half a bag. Scary good stuff. I have wasted so much money over the years on garbage seed. Buy this and have your mind blown.

This is a dense shade grass seed. It requires a minimum of 3 hours of sunlight a day to properly germinate. If the shade area you are treating does not allow for this minimum amount of sunlight, chances are the seed will not germinate and in time rot in place.Read the instructions on the back of the seed package carefully. Do as it instructs. Keep the reseeded area lightly watered. Do not apply too much moisture.If you follow the package instructions and care for the seeded area as suggested, then I think you have a 60% chance of new grass.Good luck.

Update: 3 week image from above my deck was just uploaded. It’s the last image. I’m in love. There a few bare images due to 2 rain storms that washed through after seeding but otherwise, easy to patch up in the coming week. This grass seed is amazing and very hardy!!I’m a first-time solo grass seed planter (minus my micromanaging lawn lover husband). Our garden gets dense shade with approximately 4-6 hours of indirect sunlight. I have a healthy young 11 year old crepe myrtle I refuse to remove that provided a beautiful canopy of shade to my small garden which makes it only conditioned to plant dense shade mix. Also, I also have inherited a drainage issue that all my neighbors without french drains have issue with. My husband and I have decided not to drop the big bucks to fix it. We realize a french drain would help my garden out of our wet muddy mess in the spring and early fall by sending our sitting water after rain storms into a water shed located about 30 feet further past our fence line but the cost is too much to swallow at this point. Hence, the spring and ladder fall will continue to do a number on my inadequately sloped bowl like garden. I’ve offset the frustration with the purchase of planter pots and hanging flower baskets along with an self-watering above ground garden bed.As for the attempt to grow grass with these multitude of obstacles in my way, I must say, this seed is amazing in its ability to continue growing during this spring drowning spell of so many rain storms!!In addition, i have my 7YO daughter and a number of my neighborhood children in my backyard daily. In my attempt to have new grass forge through the trampling it will often get as i will be unable to referee kids 24/7 back toward my stepping stones, I mixed this with this dense shade tall fescue mix seed with rye grass mix seed. So far, I’m impressed and can’t wait to see how it continues to grow and fill in well into the summer and fall. Will edit in few more weeks and give another update on happenings. Thank you Scott’s!!!!

SCOTTS brand is the best seeds you can buy. Literally you can throw it on concrete and it will sprout and grow grass if there is the tiniest amount of dirt and water. They have made seeding your lawn a, “guaranteed no brainer.” You will have a nice lawn if you follow directions on the bag.

I was happy to find Scotts Dense Shade seed but somewhat concerned when bags arrived out of date. The results have been spotty at best. Some areas I've planted twice & seed has not sprouted. I even used Scotts soil that has starter fertilizer. This is the only seed that seems to thrive in my yard. Have used to reseed in fall for past 4-5 yrs. For some reason availability seems to have dried up??

Wow did this come up. Yah! Being colored makes it easy to see where you’ve been.

In order to obtain the best output from this bag of seeds I followed the instructions scrupulously. I was careful to ensure that the seeds were watered properly. Mother nature helped me in this respect because we have been getting a shower on many days. Rain water seems to work far better than tap water and my established lawn has never looked better then as a result of this shower activity. However, this grass seed has decided that it prefers to remain dormant and not build any turf as advertised. There has not been a single blade of grass to appear from this product.I have had experience with other shade seeds with various results. Some bags of shade seeds produced very nice patches of grass while others produced somewhat skimpier results but at least there was some output. This Scotts 18341 did nothing but just lay on the ground and do nothing. Big waste of money.