OutsideprideCombat Extreme Southern Zone Grass Seeds for Lawn - 5 lbs. SPF 30 Heat & Drought Tolerant Mix of Turf Type Fescue & Hybrid Bluegrass Seed with OptiGrowth Coating Enhanced Germination

Liked the description of the grass. Liked the contents too. It's not all just one type of grass. Planted the grass 4 weeks ago. Barely any seeds germinating . Kind of disappointed . Not fast growing either. It is growing in the bare spots . Maybe this type is better for over seeding.

SPF-30 is marketed as a Kentucky Blue hybrid but definitely not same as KBG (perhaps it should be marketed as a Texas Blue grass hybrid) and consequently looks like something unintentional got into the lawn. Mismatch to the two fescues. Distribution is uneven and therefore you have a lawn with the two excellent dark green fescues and splotches of SPF-30. Color is much lighter green and leaves considerably broader. Also it sprawls horizontally on the surface and much will escape even a low mow. Stripes compromised. Grows faster than the two fescues and any true KBG overseed so will rise up even if mowed every day or so. Extreme Combat Transitional maybe a better bet even for Zone 8. SPF-30 might be a good choice if the only grass.Update 20230411: Another “feature” of SPF-30 is it will begin to seed out. The seeds are at the end of long sprawling horizontal stems which even low mowing will miss. So all that has to be hand plucked. Eventually, SPF-30 will take over the yard. The two fescues in this mix will never seed out because they are of course mowed. Again, if SPF-30 is the only grass and the goal is a pure SPF-30 lawn, this aggressive seeding and sprawling will be fine. Otherwise, it can be considered an invasive plant and ruins the pristine dark green of the two fescues in the mix of this product. The only fix is a partial lawn renovation where the SPF-30 is laboriously removed where found. Or just start over with another full reno and toss all the previous hard work.Update 20230915: Eventually the SPF-30 just faded away as the new normal of Central Texas summer-like spring (yes, August temps while still spring; local TV weather forecasters were amazed as we all were) cranked up. Aforementioned worries here about SPF-30 taking over the yard and choking out the fescue blend turned out unfounded. But, wait, there is more. The record-breaking Summer 2023 was too much for the Extreme Combat Southern surviving fescue blend (SPF-30 long gone) even with diligent proper hand-watering (our town went Level 3 which meant no sprinklers ever but hand-watering, meaning hand-held garden hose or pail, legal anytime or day). At first it appeared to go dormant which was okay for even fescue cultivars designed for heat and drought (after all, still a “cool season” grass at its, um, roots, so to speak) (and green yards in Central Texas not natural in spite of the conventional local thinking, and the reason 70% city water goes lawns, hence ever increasing water restrictions) but soon it was obvious the relentless (78 so far, maybe done now) triple-digit days were too much for the fescue blend of Annihilator and Roman. (Still mid-nineties here but it finally rained.) All is not lost, of course. A good excuse for an awesome lawn renovation with different fescue cultivars. However, the future is buffalo grass (the only true native grass in North America). Where the past (thousands of years) meets the future. Yet, can it be spectacularly striped? Time will tell. :)