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..

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