Scotts Turf Builder Grass Seed Bermudagrass with Fertilizer and Soil Improver, Drought-Tolerant, 8 lbs.

I bought a house in mid central Texas that has the heavy clay soil that turns to brick and cracks in the sun. It's like glue when wet. My yard gets about a full day of sun, usually over 100 degrees. I had patches all over. Looked like a earthquake happened. Pure neglect. So I aerated the yard, watered often, layed down humid acid, fertilized, and eventually put down this grass seed with a 1/2 inch of coir on top. The whole process was about 2 months of work. I'm lazy ish. The seed sprouted immediately. Within 2 days thanks to the whole process giving it the perfect environment. I no longer have patches. I even got the seed to grow under a tree that hasn't been able to support grass in years. My new neighbors have visited to compliment the yard. Many of them. The seed germinates and grows well. I definitely recommend it. You have to prep your soil first. Nothing grows in dry dead soil. Seedlings take more watering to allow root development. You can't put a baby in the sun all day, ya know? Human error is why people fail with this. Take the steps and THEN put this seed down. You'll be rewarded.

Works well for our grass

I’ve tried this product twice. Btw, Scott’s said they would issue me a refund when the first bad didn’t work and I never got it. So I don’t think their guarantee holds up.But, to get this to work, you NEED to first lay down some top soil. The directions make it seem like it’s optional, but really the seeds have like a 1% chance of making it without that layer of soil vs above 80% with that layer of soil. I went to my local depot and picked up a bag of lawn starter top soil. Then you really need to pay attention to the weather, don’t have the temps drop below 60F and don’t let it exceed 95F really. And water it 3 times a day. During the first 2 weeks. After that, twice a day. I had the seed growing and then the 100F temps hit for a month here and the grass started to either die. But it will work if you apply in the Spring. Early spring is still too cold for us in the mornings.

The grass seeds are coated in green so you can see where they are going. The were easy to plant now just need them to grow. The bag is so adorably small.

We bought 4 bags of grass seed for our home in North Florida, two bags of this Scotts seed for the front yard, and two more expensive bags of Centipede grass from a smaller company for the back yard.We installed the seed correctly, raking the leaves and then mixing the seed with sand and some quality bagged topsoil we bought at Home Depot, then distributing it by hand to the affected areas. We bought a hose timer and watered both areas religiously.The centipede grass we bought is doing fantastic. It sprouted on day 7 and is going strong. I can provide the link to this product as we got 100% sprouting of that seed.By contrast, the Scotts seed, in spite of what it says on the bag, after 3 weeks of watering, has not sprouted. It is a 100% utter failure. A complete waste of money.I did not keep the bags, as I expected the Scotts seed to NOT be a problem, as I have used it before.I am posting here now, for buyers to BEWARE of this product. If you do buy it, KEEP THE BAGS and the lot number.Either Scotts is selling DEFECTIVE SEED, or this seller is selling EXPIRED SCOTTS seed.I am not out $50+dollars, plus the time to research Scotts seed, plus the topsoil we bought, plus the time to go to Home Depot to get it, plus the time to mix it, distribute the seed, then carefully MOTHER the watering so it would sprout, plus all the water and effort to water it 2-3 times per day WITH ZERO GRASS SPROUTING NOW.So, I am talking about dozens of hours of time for my wife and I.#NEVERBUYSCOTTSAGAIN

Update 5-20-2019Scotts gave me my money back as their guarantee on back states.Along with a lengthy letter that details tips on how to get better results. I did everything and more that was necessary including having my sprinkler system set to water the 4 zones affected 6 minutes per zone 7 days per week, unless we had a rain day. Cost me about $225 in a water bill for 4 weeks. But nothing. They claim you have to keep the soil constantly damp and sometimes water it 2 to 3 times per day every day in a fairly narrow band of temperature. I can only figure, in spite of my expenditure for watering, it may have had to be less water more often than watering each night once per day. I don't know. However, having done some sod work in a small area last year, that was a heck of a lot cheaper and was a no brainer for patching. Of course if you are going to do an entire yard with this seed, you better be prepared for one heck of a high water bill.I plan to be very fair about this review and will update it if I see any future success. So far, I'm having none. I spread the seed in a dozen or so areas that I put fresh soil and fertilizer in spots on my bermuda sodded lawn that for some reason were doing poorly. I dug up some of the old soil, and patched in areas with new soil and then seeded. I set a water program with sprinkler system to water 4 minutes each for the seeded zones starting about 5 weeks ago, around March 1st. Theoretically, within 3 weeks, the grass should be long enough to stop the daily watering. From what I'm seeing, nothing is happening. I am now running an experiment on 4-15 where I put some seed in potting soil where I can water a bit daily and see first hand if the seeds will grow in a "Petri Dish" type experiment. I live in north TX and the weather since March 1st has been a bit chilly at night and we had a couple of days of decent rain. Most of my lawn is fully awake and nice and green but the areas that I've seeded that are seriously struggling. Mostly the grass that is growing in the patches is from existing grass that is either coming across or growing in from underneath. Not from the seed. I will report back in a couple of weeks if I see any progress anywhere from the seed. If not, I will ask for a refund as the bag says the warranty the product.Update 4-22Added pic 1. After 7 days in pot with potting soil and keeping moist every day, and outside in nice spring TX weather, as you can see, nothing happening at all with growth. Stay tuned for update in another week.Update 4-25In my prior paragraph I showed how still no growth in a pot. But now I do have growth. So 10 days and I have growth in a pot but no growth outside. Now bear in mind the directions show to use a spreader to spread the seed, which means on top. The only thing I did different was to plant the seeds a half inch down in potting soil and they grew. But lets face it, this is not a good scenario for a yard. If you have to plant it a half inch down to get it to grow, that stinks for a yard. So I went to all the areas I seeded and used a hand tool to rake up the soil some and reseed and then plant them under the soil a bit. That's a lot of work. It's not bad for spot seeding but it would stink for a whole yard.So I can't really poop on the seed for a failure per se since it grows, but for it's application, I would say don't buy it if you're using a spreader. I may actually pursue a refund.