Jonathan Green 10610 Dense Shade Grass Seed Mixture, 25-Poun

This worked very well for me, with daily watering it germinated in about 2 weeks in a heavily shaded back lawn when it was an average of 85f outside and not much rain with straw covering (I'm East Coast). I was having issues finding the exact seed mixture of this so here is a photo from the back of the bag with their percentages. For me I wanted to know how much fine fescue was in this mix which I think is listed as Carson Chewings Fescue (I'm not a landscape expert).

This stuff is gold. Ive tried for 4 years to get anything to grow in the heavily shaded area in front of my house. I aerated the area with cheap shoe add ons and did exactly as instructed. Spread seed and added two sprinller heads on a timer to water for 5-10 minues, 3 times a day. It started sprouting after 4 days. It was sull and thick at two weeks. Its been almost 4 weeks now and I've mowed it twice with no issues.

Have a 75'x75' area I cleared in a wooded section of my back lot to put up a ham radio antenna (yea, I'm a geek...deal with it 😎). Promised my wife I wouldn't take down any more trees than absolutely necessary, which left the clearing heavily shaded with barely any dappled light filtering in a couple of hours a day. Expected to just let the wild ground cover take over, but since the soil was nicely prepped and graded after the antenna work was done, figured I'd give this deep shade seed a shot. Pictures are from September 30th, 2024, 10 days after seeding. WOW! Germination at a very acceptable rate given the cool temps we've had and of course the lack of sun back there. Watered per directions, and I've had to leaf blow every couple of days to keep it from being smothered. Will update this review next spring when I see how it winters over but at this point I'm very pleased.

I regret lots of money spent on other brands that resulted in ugly grass or failed growth. Black Beauty is the only one that produces grass you would want to look at. The Dense Shade is the only one that actually takes hold in deep shade. And it grows to a desireable length rather than racing to wheat stalk height between mowings like the competitors' weed-looking grass. What sense is it to compare price when the other ones are an assured fail?

This was what I was lacking in trying to grow a lush, green lawn. I have tried every major brand out there, S*&##'s, P+^^~^@#&n, R+`+-'s, you name it. I followed directions, I bought a sizable tiller and dug the soil to a 10" depth, sowed the seed per directions, raked it in and then spread wheatstraw and watered it. I spread lime, fertilizer and weed control. They all sprouted and grew till the heat of a Georgia summer took its toll and before the Fourth of July it was beginning to develop rigor mortis. So, I did some searching and found this; I bought a small amount last year and tried it, and the proof was this spring when approximately 50% of what I grew last year came back. That is a phenomenal percentage for my circumstances (our yard is covered with dozens of fully mature hardwoods: red oaks, Southern maples, hickories, poplars, post oaks and they produce a huge volume of leaves in the fall that preclude seeding then and that drop the ph like a lead brick when the tannic acid leaches out). So I purchased a larger amount and seeded the entire yard, which is now covered with a lush, green carpet of emerald velvet. This is some of the prettiest grass you can imagine, and that is with a month of May in which we had no rainfall whatsoever. None. There are spots that need to be filled in next spring but that will be done, along with a proper reseeding, and I am confident that with a modicum of care and maintenance our yard will be a welcome, cooler place to enjoy our outdoors for years to come. This product does exactly what it says it will do if you do your share of the equation.