The local Lowes home store and Amazon sells this seed for areas on the Lowlands of NC. We are close to Wilmington, where most lawns are Centipede grass (a weed in most parts of the country,) Bermuda grass, or Zoysia grass. I figured I would give this seed a chance. I raked and aerated the lawn put down top soil then seed. I watered the grass seed as specified and it did sprout. The "acid" test will be if the grass survives the heat and humidity in the Wilmington, NC area. Fingers crossed.

This seed has helped to overtake Bermuda grass that was beginning to take hold in the drier, sun drenched, areas of my lawn. Nothing else was working.

Live in mid south area and this grass grows beautiful. Not very drought resistant. Must water daily for about 15 min a day until it grows.

This seed is cultivated to handle dryer and generally harsher environments found along the southeastern coast from Virginia down. The way things heat up now, I believe it is appropriate for a wider area. I cannot say I see a significant improvement over the heat tolerant bluegrass - but I have no way of objectively measuring a difference. That said, I will try to only use this from now on. My lawn needs whatever heat and water improvement as possible! Can't understand why some say its is harder to grow... like any other, keep the ground moist until it is 3 inches tall or so, and you will get what you are looking for.

It started off as a great fast growing grass. In the end it does not germinate any more grass blades than those that pop up after the first application. The grass is about a month old and is still green but the strands are sparsely distributed and won’t suffice unless they start to germinate new shoots after time. I may be back to sodding after this.

People here say you can't grow Fescue in Central Texas, but I'm here to say that you can! With the heat being over 100 for more than 55 days, and still getting up here, you would think that it would have died. Nope. The Bermuda did, though. With cooler temps coming up I hope that it spreads nicely for another season of green. I even purchased a 20 pound bag for my neighbors as they, like me, are not fans of Bermuda and have always had beautiful, green, tall and soft fescue.It is a little expensive, but I suppose since it had lasted here it is well worth it. Plus as a bunch grass, it should spread, although it isn't going as fast as others. Still, beats having vines as your yard!!

The price was better then local box stores but Lowes put this seed on sale so it was close to the same price. The Amazon seed was delivered quickly and undamaged. The seed label with the expiration date was unreadable but I think I saw it was tested 8 months ago (which was the same as Lowes seed).The Scotts Southern Gold tall Fescue mix worked well for me - better then most years I have been overseeding my fescue for 30 years every fall and sometimes in spring too. In Atlanta it is very hard to keep Fescue from dying out in August- but the last few years the high temp. have been lower and we got more rain but the grubs killed much of my fescue. Why can't grubs eat crabgrass roots. ( a little genetic engineering and we could get grubs to eat only the weed roots instead of only the fescue).Anyway I've used every brand of fescue seed and this is at least a B compared with the others. The most important things to do to prepare the lawn are rake out and remove the thatch, core aerate your lawn before overseeding and buy wheat straw and chop it up with a lawn mower then spread over the lawn after seeding to hold in the moisture. Watering is the most important part. Keep the ground moist. You don't need deep watering just the surface where the seeds are. Keeping the surface wet all day long can be difficult that's why wheat straw helps. Some years I try adding soil or other additives to keep the seeds moist but wheat straw works good and it cheap. I think the wheat straw adds some weeds that have to be dealt with later. The other things I should mention is cut your lawn low just before overseeding and use a starter fertilizer at the time of seeding. This year I try using a hand held broadcast spreader and I liked using it because it helps get the seed where you want it and not clumping up. It is really important to measure you yard I have just about 8000sq. ft. ( a pretty small yard) so needed 2 -20lb. bags of seed and had some left over. The seed must touch the soil and stay slightly damp to germinate. Two weeks out I'm getting some germination better then some years but not great. I think moisture levels, age of seed and prep work are more important then the brand of seed. Make sure you are using fescue if you have fescue lawn. Bluegrass and rye grass won't take the heat in the south. They work in the winter then die in the late spring. That is what Rye grass is meant to do- although I haven't tried it - it is suppose to be quick to germinate but is temporary. Fescue is close to it's heat limit in northern Georgia. Bluegrass is for cooler climates. The best grass is Zoysia but it is expensive and browns out ( goes dormant) in the winter. Plant Zoysia and Bermuda in the spring and Fescue in the fall. Fescue sod is probably a waste of money since it gets weeds and browns out late every summer and has to be overseeded.

Removed a raised plant bed and wanted grass to grow in the empty spots. I’ve not grown grass from seed before so I crossed my fingers, threw some seed on the ground, watered at 7:00 a.m. on three consecutive mornings to puddle-like saturation. I started to see tiny little green sticking up but wasn’t sure if it was from the grass seed. A few days later it rained for about 10 minutes. Didn’t get a chance to water for another 3-4 days, went out to water and some of the grass had grown a couple inches. Several photos uploaded with dates to show the 10-day progress. No fertilizer or new soil or any type of preparation used.Temperatures midday have been between 85-100 since I started. Lows in the 60s. The patch gets full sun from 10:00 to about 4:00.I have no clue if it will actually be successful long term but it’s already producing grass in non-ideal conditions so I’m hopeful.