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

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!!!!

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.

I used this product on an area of my lawn that keeps dying because it's right next to a fence in the backyard and the area gets very little direct sun exposure. Probably around 3 hours a day (of direct sun) which is what this seed calls for. Proper seeding, top soil, fertilizing, and watering was done to ensure best success for the grass. I had moderate success with the product. The seeds did not grow in thick but very sparsely. I think the problem was with lack of sunlight that didn't trigger germination of the seed but the grass that did grow is growing very healthy and surviving well whereas before it wouldn't do well due to lack of sunlight. I will be purchasing this product again and overseeding until this area becomes thicker but don't be surprised if it doesn't come in immediately thick on the first try. The seeds also took longer to germinate than other areas of my lawn.

I will try and remember to add a photo but wanted to quickly review this product as we are happy to say it defied even my mom's prediction who is a master gardener of 30 years. We have 3 large trees in our front yard casting shade on our north west corner of the house, which already receives the least amount of sunlight. There were large patches of dirt with some scarce grass here and there when we bought the house 6 years ago underneath where the trees overlap. Everyone, including my mom, thought it was too shady to grow any quality grass but I figured it wouldn't hurt to try so I used a couple of bags of this. I didn't even use a spreader, I just took a bucket and sprinkled it all over the dirt patches. The instructions say to water it twice a day for 3 weeks but with 2 small kids, 2 elderly dogs, & both my husband and I working fulltime, without a sprinkler system, we were not that religious about watering. We probably watered once a day for 2 weeks or so until literally overnight all of a sudden we saw all this new grass had grown in! It was amazing! It continues to grow thicker and looks way better than the rest of our yard now. Pleasantly surprised with this product and going to buy more! Wish it came in bigger bulk is all I can say! :)

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??

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