American Excelsior QuickGrass Pro Erosion Control Blanket Landscape Roll - 2-1/2'x50'

I gave it 5 stars because they're too many negative reviews on this very useful product. Yes some of them may be a pain in the ass to onroll but once you get it layed out the benefits are great. It keeps bird from eating seeds. It keeps grass seed moist as long as you water regularly. And straw will disintegrate so you don't have any mess to clean up.

It will do the job!

It helped my lawn to grow.

Bad mistake to buy this product. Very thin layer of 'straw-like' material on clear plastic mesh, (almost) impossible to get off the roll. The product image shown in listing is not what is happening. Gave up after untangling a 10 ft section and threw away the whole pack.

Worked better than expected. Very easy to use. Just rolled it out and cut off the amount of coverage I needed. My grass seeds started growing within a few days. I would definitely buy again.

I read the reviews and some of the concerns of other buyers so I worked really hard to make this product work. It is hard to unroll but if you take your time and look for the red stripe you can make it work. It did a good job of covering roto-tilled dirt and the grass seed that I spread to remake the front lawn after a very hard winter basically turned the yard into a muddy patch. After installing the bedding I watered this patch religiously each morning but was disappointed that much of the grass seed did not germinate. Then after a few weeks the straw material started to disintegrate and the plastic webbing became very loose. In the end I was not pleased with the results. I believe the straw bedding was too thick to allow much of the seed to germinate from lack of sunlight. Plus now the plastic bedding has to be torn up to mow what little grass did develop. Plus the little green spikes to hold the bedding in place definitely are not biodegradable. I think this product might be more suited for hills or steep inclines but it didn’t work well for me on our flat front lawn.

I notice quite a number of negative comment about this product, but I had no problem using it. You do need to be a bit careful when first unrolling it. I found it to be especially useful when reseeding a small hill on our reverse story and a half. I also used it when reseeding a flat spot in our yard, in that it's a reminder not to walk on or mow the reseeded area. The biodegradable posts are nice but not really needed. But if you do use them the yard needs to water in first and one needs to be careful hammering in the posts. I personally like to pick it up several weeks after the new seed is fully growing in well even though it is biodegradable. I simply roll it back up and put it in our lawn recycle bags. It easily rolls up once reseeded area is established if you're careful in pulling it up. Part of this is because our Westie will walk on it and does track some of the fibers in.

It's a good product, although the rolls are inconsistent. One roll was great, while the other was stretched thin and tangled up. Now, it could have been something that I've done, yet I treated them the same. All in all it worked.