Growtrax Biodegradable Grass Seed Mat, Year Round Green - 50 Sq Ft Quick Fix Roll - Growing Solution for Lawns, Dog Patches and Shade - Just Roll Water & Grow -Not Fake or Artificial Grass

I got this to put on a recently filled area with clay and sand. It's been about 2 weeks and the seeds have terminated as a are growing! To be fair I didn't water it 3x a day line it says to. I was only able to 2x so it delayed the growth. But it looks like it'll be for to go in anther 2 weeks. Pretty cool stuff. I wish they made zoysia seed ones though. But I get it that's a difficult seed to grow and would prob have bad ratings in our instant gratification world. Am in all I'll buy more for the other bare spots

I purchased five rolls of the GrowTrax Grass Seed Mat and carefully followed all the preparation and installation instructions. Unfortunately, what grew was not grass at all — it looks like a patch of weeds or random plants instead. I was really hopeful about this product because it sounded convenient and easy to use, but the results were completely different from what was advertised. I prepared the soil properly and watered as instructed, yet there’s no sign of real grass after two weeks. Very disappointed with this purchase and would not recommend it based on my experience.

Will provide desired results if you keep the soil moist for at least 2 weeks I set a timer to water 10 minutes every 6 hours. Within 2 weeks the grass sprouted & is about 2 inches tall. What remains to be seen is if it will last or die off

The description said if we watered 3 times a day, there would be lush, thick grass after 5 weeks. We installed the mats on an area with 2 inches of fresh store-bought topsoil on June 27, 2025 and 6 weeks later on August 8, 2025 the grass is thick in some areas and quite thin in others. It may eventually thicken all over, but that may require overseeding, fertilizer and more TLC.

I know it’s not easy to see but this product is awesome. This is the 9th day it’s been down!!! Started seeing grass on day 7. Followed the instructions implicitly. Kept wet three times per day. Prepped the site with inches of top soil after digging up entire area and I think that’s critical. Note: it will not work over existing grass and weeds no matter the height and they pointed that out. The product MUST directly touch the ground. Existing ground cover prevents that. I must add that I was very lucky with the weather as we had moderately hot, overcast daytime temps and cool evenings. Plus some rain so conditions were pristine. Easy to install and as you can see it worked for us. I’m so impressed! Great stuff!!!

I covered my whole yard in this stuff based upon a successful trial with a smaller area. The main thing to know is that if you are in a windy area, you are going to be babysitting and repositioning this stuff daily until it sprouts. Any serious wind and it becomes a kite and blows all over. If you are doing what you are supposed to be doing and keeping it damp, you then have to be extremely careful to get it back in position without destroying it, as it basically loses all structural integrity when it is wet, and walking on it will also destroy or put holes in it if the underlying soil is soft, so it is really a challenge to keep it in position. Overall, to do it again, and even now as I stare at my rolls which overnight were blown all over the yard - about 2000 sqft or over 700 dollars of material - I would just cover it all in a half inch of topsoil. This will keep birds from eating it, make it germinate and grow more quickly, and retain water a bit better so it would not require multiple waterings per day to stay damp. If you cover it with a bit of dirt, and keep it moist, you will have excellent results. Otherwise, just buy some sod and be done with it. I mean, it is really a sort of disaster when you wake up at 5am and look at your yard and have a bunch of stuff to do before work and you realize that you have to get out there and do an hour of grass seed roll repositioning and rehabilitation or your $3000 lawn project is going to look like hammered feces. These people really did not think through what any sort of wind at all will do to an installation without some sort of soil holding it down. Kind of a major oversight. I support US businesses and this is made in Santa Barbara, but come ON guys! You are seriously sinking my battleship over here. Get with the program and tell people how to make this stuff work. Topsoil, topsoil, topsoil. The turf is really nice once it gets going, but this is ridiculous.

I read many of the reviews and with so much positive and of course some negative, I decided to give it a try. I laid multiple strips over bare dirt. I watered regularly and hoped for the best. After about 4 weeks there was absolutely no change. I wondered if there were any seeds in the mat. I did not bother to shred it to find out. I just gave up. Perhaps i did something wrong but simply do not know. I have most of the roll remaining as I was testing in on about 10 square feet of area. It is about a year since I wrote the above review. I decided to give this product another chance so I cleared and prepared about a 3 foot square area. I made sure it was well watered. Now after about 2-3 months you can see the results in the pictures. While there is some grass growth this time, most of the area shows no growth or vey sparse growth. The pictures are not great as there are a lot of pine needles over the grass due to some strong wind. However, I think you can get the idea. I loved the potential of this product but found it pretty useless. As an experiment, I seeded another section of the lawn with traditional seed and watered in the same way. While I did not attach a picture that area shows lush lawn growth. Bottom line, for me, this product simply did not live up to expectations.

I have bought this several times now and I also purchased a few rolls for my mom. This stuff works great don’t have to worry about straw or birds eating your grass seed. It is kind of pricey but it works great. At first it may look like the grass is kinda of thin but as it keeps growing it gets very full and looks wonderful.