OutsideprideSPF-30 Hybrid Bluegrass Seeds - 10 lbs. Heat & Drought Tolerant, Texas Bluegrass & Kentucky Bluegrass Seed Mix for Challenging Climates, OptiGrowth Coated for Better Establishment

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 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.

DO NOT BUY THIS GRASS SEED! It RUINED MY LAWN with Poa annua "annual bluegrass"! Last year my front lawn did not have ANY of the light-colored clump grass known as "annual bluegrass". None whatsoever. It was entirely Bermuda grass, and because I am not a fan of Bermuda grass, I cut it down to the ground last fall and sowed this "hybrid bluegrass" along with some of the "Midnight Kentucky Bluegrass" from the same seed producer: Outsidepride. I had previously used their "Midnight Kentucky Bluegrass", about a year ago in the spring of 2023. With that seed I did have a problem with annual bluegrass that was obviously mixed in with the Kentucky Bluegrass, however the problem was not so great that I would have avoided using seed from the same producer again. Last fall I applied both the "Midnight Kentucky Bluegrass" and this "SPF-30 Heat and Drought Tolerant Hybrid Bluegrass, both from the same producer, Outsidepride. Now my front lawn has about as much annual bluegrass as Kentucky bluegrass, and the ONLY POSSIBLE WAY for this to have happened is if it arrived here mixed in with one or the other, most likely both, of these two varieties of Kentucky bluegrass seed from Outsidepride!Because this problem was not nearly this severe when I used the Midnight Kentucky variety, it is somewhat likely that most of the Poa annua seed was mixed in with the SPF-30 Hybrid bluegrass. But, whichever variety it was that contained the bulk of this awful clump grass, IT CAME FROM OUTSIDEPRIDE. I will never, ever use this brand of grass seed again. I encourage other people who take pride in their lawns to avoid this brand like avoiding the plague. It is obvious to me that this brand has a major problem with keeping unwanted species of grass and weeds out of their grass fields. I do not know anything about how large-scale producers of grass seed deal with this, and my sense is that this is an ongoing difficulty in their business endeavor. But as the producer of seed, it is their responsibility to have some means to make certain that the seed they produce and package is reasonably pure, and not contaminated with an unwanted species like Poa annua. If they are not able to do that, then they should simply get out of the business.