Pennington Bermudagrass Southern Grass Seeds for Lawn, 5 lb

Bermuda grass is either the bane of one's existence (northerners), or it's the answer to prayers for something green. For the south Texan, it's the latter. You probably don't need my story, but you'll get it anyway. I'm a confessed grass addict. I had the fancy turf, (Tiff Bermuda grass), and it was the envy of my culdesac. Then I moved into the boonies-- former farmland, clay soil, and water restrictions. I wanted grass--nay--needed it. So I bought Blackjack bermuda to replicate something of a fancy turf-- it just didn't pan out. As a backup, I bought Pennington's Bermuda. The first time I bought it, it grew very slowly, but it still grew. Bermuda takes about 3 weeks to germinate, so my seed must have been an average batch--OR SO I THOUGHT. Come to find out, I just didn't have the right conditions. Here's what you need. 1. Get a soil test and find out what nutrients are missing from your soil. pH is also important. 2. You need loose soil. Cover up that seed with loose dirt, or press it down into the dirt with a roller. Peat moss may work. Long story short, you need seed to soil contact. 3. You need a starter fertilizer with the Bermuda seed. 4. Plant at the right time. If it's too hot outside, the seed won't grow too well. I grew my first batch in October, and it was still scorching here in Texas. 5. You need consistency in watering. If you water it well, it will grow. You will need to do this for 3 weeks. Bermuda is a slow grower initially. Believe it or not, you'll still see sprouting seed 5 weeks later. When I bought Pennington for a second time, it grew like wild fire. Planting right in early spring and the weather was simply perfect. I'm about to buy my 3rd seed batch for my final planting project. 20000 sq feet

Too early to tell just how good it will look by the end of summer, but the color is good, a high % germinated, and since I wanted really full coverage, I used 3 lbs. of it to cover about 500 feet instead of 5 lbs. for 5000 square feet.

we bought 2 bags of the bermudagrass, seeded it in the spring here in South Carolina, watered it alot and nothing came up. My husband said the seed was like powder, so we believe we got ripped off by the company. We did check the bags for the experation day and it was not expired. I would not recommend this product, wasted money and time.

I don’t know how it would have germinated as the Canadian Geese came up from the pond and had it for lunch. Then a big rainstorm washed away the rest plus the straw mulch. I guess Mother Nature wants some bare dirt! I have still been watering and checked closely yesterday and what’s left from the heavy rain has sprouted. So it germinated fine if you keep it moist

It’s tough finding grass seed without fertilizer for an already fertilized lawn. Seed count is substantial and sprouted quickly within the week! So far it has withstood the brutal Texas heat even while sprouting (with adequate watering). Grass looks great, thick with beautiful color. The only Bermuda grass seed I’ll buy now!

Disappointed. Have grown lawns from seed many times. I made sure to have adequate seed spread out and good seed soil contact. Watered twice a day for two weeks and not a single blade. Very disappointed. Would have gotten the same result spreading 50 bucks in nickels on the lawn. I suspect the seed had been sitting for a long period of time in excessive heat or just old seed. Horrible purchase and waste of time and money (and paying to water dirt)

Seeded my front and side lawn last Sunday with my first round of seeding I de-thatched the lawn to get rid of as much build up and living organic matter as I could and mowed to a scalp to allow as much seed to ground contact as needed and even opened up a lot of bare spots from thick wild violets, and I’m watering twice a day, I’m seeing small Bermuda grass popping up every where, then on Thursday I seeded again with 15 lbs more iv read the other comments saying down by its powder and doesn’t grow, Bermuda grass seed is very tiny and can look like powder and when it starts to germinate it’s also very very tiny like zosya grass, you must reseed a few times starting out a new lawn and then over seed every year to get a thick lawn with no weeds. And it must be at least in the 70’s to 80’s to germinate too hot outside you will have to water more and hope it takes. with Warm season grass it’s the only grass you can mow low, 1 to 1 1/2 inches tall and must be cut twice a week. if your using tall fescue grass aka cool season grass it must me mowed tall 3-5 inches the taller the better it’s called tall fescue fir a reason, not scalped to the ground to keep it healthy and alive, you still mow once a week it doesn’t grow faster then scalped grass, so to the untrained eye they wasted there money when in reality they either didnt know what they where doing or how to get grass seed to germinate you must water every day it doesn’t rain. Which is easy to do. The quality of the grass seed is excellent,

Great seed. I couldn’t believe how many seeds sprouted.