ScottsTurf 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.

Great for filling in dead spots in my lawn.

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.

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

My yard if you wanted to call it that was basically sand due to a weed we call Florida snow. A lot of that was because I had neglected it for years. Then I bought this Bermuda grass along with The Andersons PGF Balanced 10-10-10 Fertilizer with Micronutrients and 2% Iron (5,000 sq ft), and I couldn't be happier. Where I had sand I now have a really thick front lawn of Bermuda grass. I bought Pensacola Bahai for my backyard using the same fertilizer and it's growing but I'm skeptical about it. Just not the same growth rate so I ordered Scotts Bermuda grass and more fertilizer tonight and I'm sure I'll have a nice thick lawn in the backyard shortly. I used aScotts Whirl Hand-Powered Spreader for Seed, Fertilizer, Salt, Ice Melt, Handheld Spreader Holds up to 1,500 sq. ft. Product to put it down. A lot of people look at it and go " What a joke" it's not we used these when I worked at a golf course because you could see the spread, and also because the push spreaders dumped more seed and fertilizer than it distrusted it. This is costly but well worth it. Just remember for the 1st few weeks you need to water every day until the seed takes root.