Choosing the best seed doesn’t really mean choosing the most expensive. All Grass are not created equal. You need a guide for reading grass seed labels with all the keys.

First start with grass types you wanted to plant in general. Each type has multitude of sub-types, known as cultivars, each with slightly different characteristics. Once you know whether you’re in the market for Kentucky bluegrass, Bermuda grass, etc., look to see if the grass seed label names the particular cultivars. The names of the cultivars will give you more information if you want to know exactly what you’re getting, but more than anything, listed cultivar names are an indication of higher quality bags of grass seed. If you see annual Ryegrass listed among the grass seed types in a bag, move on. . with this, The lawn will come in thick and healthy, but the annual ryegrass will die off after the first winter, leaving your lawn spotty and ripe for weed invasion.

Grass seed labels list the amount of “weed seed.”. You’ll be surprise to think you’re planting weeds along with your new lawn, but that’s the way it goes. If you aim to get the lowest amount of weed seed possible. Never buy a bag of seed with more than .3% weeds. Fresher bags of grass seed will have greater rates of germination.

Carefuly reead labels of grass seed, then choose the winning bag and get on to fun part which is seeing a healthy lawn in the future..

You always begin with choosing a grass suitable for your area’s climate to create a beautiful lawn. There are many kinds of grasses available. All you have to do is choose one that will grow well and healthy under your area’s climate.

The perennial ryegrass, for example, is a good choice for a place with full sunlight pouring in. For a shaded area, a mixture of perennial ryegrass and fescue is a good combination. The disadvantage of growing perennial ryegrass, however, is that it has to be watered enough to keep it green. If not, it will thin out and there will be bare spots to be seen on your lawn. These bare spots need to be reseeded because perennial ryegrass does not spread to fill them in. If you can’t water the lawn as much as you’d like or as much as is required, you can mix fescue in it. Fescue can tolerate not being watered for some time and it grows back quickly when rainfall comes.

Kentucky bluegrass is great for areas from the Cascades to New England and some of the higher lands of the upper South. But if you can’t water the lawn as much as you’d like in these areas, you can choose to use buffalo grass. Buffalo grass, however, does not really look all that good.

Bent grass was once popular, but it doesn’t seem to attract many people nowadays. It takes more water and fertilizer to keep it green. It is also easily contaminated by every known lawn disease.

For the South where the climate is warm, warm season grasses such as bermuda grass, zoysiagrass, centipede grass, and St. Augustine grass are preferred. These warm season grasses are dormant in the winter, so it is recommended that ryegrass is over seeded in the fall so the lawn will stay green all winter.

If you’re seeking an alternative to grass, you can opt for the pennyroyal. Pennyroyal is a low growing mint that smells wonderful. It needs mowing only once a month and it discourages fleas. It does not bode very well when stepped on, however. You can also look into a lawn of wild garlic; it stays green even without any watering all year round.