Pennington Smart Seed Sun and Shade Grass Mix 7 lb

Wort it. Grass looks amazing

Never germinated!!

Bought 1 bag, used to fill patches on lawn, weather mild/warm, well watered daily, after 3 weeks, seeds still visible, but zero germination. Second bag has had less time, but also no sign of anything happening.

Takes a couple weeks to start growing, worth the wait

Good seed came up quickly but I neglected to use the starter fertilizer with crabgrass herbicide and it did have a lot of crabgrass but I have since gotten it under control.

This is the second time I ordered this grass seed. I noticed this second time the seeds are not as well coated in the feetilizer as before; a lot of the fertilizer is just blue dust in the bag that flows around when you spread the seeds. Another thing you might want to remember that for 32 bucks a 7lb bag this grass is seriously too expensive. If you buy Kentucky blue grass that has seeds thar are at least 4 times smaller for 60 bucks, you will be paying way less for virtually the same end result of having a great grass. And the bluegrass also has a tendency to aggressively spread out naturally. Another issue with this product is that this is a mix of sun and shade varieties, but the package does not tell how much of seeds in the bag are preferring shade and how much are preferring the sun. I'd quite frankly recommend buying shade varieties and sun preferring ones separately. Otherwise, you are diminishing the chances of having good grass coverage everywhere you want.Please don't interprete this review as necessarily negative. You might as well have a variety of grasses growing on your lawn rather than a monoculture. Buy some large seed varieties like this one, then small seed varieties such as bluegrass or zoisia, and see which ones eventually grow better on your lawn. Insted of growing what you want, grow what is growing best, and for that you would want to experiment a bit... or hire a specialist who would do the work for you but for a much higher price.

I have planted grass seed quite a few times and this is by far the worst grass seed that I’ve ever used. I prepped the area, watered, laid down the seed, tapped seed down, and layed straw on top. Watered twice a day and not a single blade of grass grew! I’ve never had that happen before.So I went to a local farm store and bought a different bag of seed and redid the entire process and I now have tiny blades of grass in the entire area.I do not recommend this brand. Waste of $30!