It is now late August - I live in central Illinois - is it too late to plant this grass seed now. I have a very shady back yard.
943484
No It's not this is the best time to seed your lawn now. Just water it twice a day for about 3 weeks and you should be ok. I hope this helps you out.
407004
get the answerr from the people who are selling it and the last I saw, they had sold out...I am in zone 5 and it past time to plant here..
2082882
The area we used it in is very dense shade. Put it down and keeping it moist. Within a week and a half we have sprouted! The jury is still out though, but this looks very promising compared to other seed we have purchased.
428070
Actually, I still have it in a really big pot. I've been meaning to plant it near a fence, but haven't done it. I think it's suffering in the pot, but now it must have a lot of roots, so I'm going to have to dig a really big hole. In the pot it has mostly gotten wide, not tall. I'm a little disappointed that the stalks are still very skinny, and only one is actually black at the moment. I guess I'd better plant it!
270151
You should wait at least 16 weeks after you apply Dimension before you plant grass seed. If you apply Dimension and then grass seed sooner, the grass seed probably will not germinate. The active ingredient in Dimension will just about stop all grassy type seeds from germinating, whether crabgrass seed or turf grass seed such as tall fescue, Kentucky blue, etc. There is a product called Tupersan which is also a pre-emergent crabgrass preventer. You can apply Tupersan and grass seed at the same time. The Tupersan will prevent crabgrass seed from germinating but will not prevent grass seed from doing so. Tupersan is much more expensive than Dimension and you cannot find it everywhere. My local garden center carries both Dimension and Tupersan. but depending upon where you live it may be hard to get. I noticed that Tupersan is available on Amazon, but the price is kind of shocking. See: http://www.amazon.com/Tupersan-PBI-Gordon-Corporation-Herbicides/dp/B004LN1K88 In any case, spring is not the ideal time to re-seed or over-seed your lawn. Autumn is the best time of year for doing that. If you can hold off until early September, I'd use the Dimension now and re-seed then. Good luck.
1422174
I think you can still plant it as it will grow as long as it's warm. Mine came up within 3 days of planting so it would still have all of August and September to grow. If you are in Texas like me, it will have October and part of November to grow. If you get some blooms, they will turn into seeds you can plant next year.
613059
I'm not sure what kind of seed grass are in the mix but I can tell you I was very happy with it. I live in Seattle. Planted the grass on clean, no special additive soil on the north side of my house in late September and within less than a week had grass growing.
1919562
It does not work. Try turf lawn ester available here. Spend the summer killing it ever couple of weeks. Then seed in the fall. Best of luck.
281987
I over seeded an area of my lawn with black beauty. It came up fine. The lawn is softer where I added black beauty. It grows well in normal areas. I would not use it in an area that is shaded or difficult to grow grass in.
1975675
I believe that Oklahoma is to hot for this grass seed. During the hottest points of the season you can see where tube sun is always cooking the grass. The grass does very well in the cooler climate. Putting this seed down in October works best for me.
375486
July/August is probably quite a bit too late for most of the country; spring is generally better for planting. I live in USDA hardiness zone 7b (USDA hardiness zones are one indicator of ideal planting times) and had to plant in May or so (and that was late). Most of northern California has higher numbers (higher than 7b) for the zones (higher numbers indicate hotter average temperatures, which means even earlier planting times than what I used). So this is probably not the best time of year in your situation.
1408778
I would only plant in spring if you are able to water frequently. New grass has a hard time in July and Aug.
1283323
I live in Maryland and seededthree Saturdays ago before the last significant snowstorm we got. I thought it was wasted, but over the last several days new grass has been coming in beautifully.
1068206
Depends on where you live, but I would wait until early next year (Feb/March). Grass doesn't grow well in the heat in general. I tried planting this last year in the summer and it didn't do much in the heat. When I planted it in Feb/March, it had enough time to take root before the heat hit in June and has been doing great.
2232481
I bought it with the main purpose of eradicating creeping Chas (my nemesis!). It was height of summer, so I'm not sure it was the best time to apply. All said: no immediate effect, but the next year, most of it was gone from the yard. The untreated adjacent yard is still crawling with it. So maybe it was taken up in the roots and slowly killed it over the winter.
421501
i don't see why not. i planted it in nw wyoming. the temperatures here get down below freezing, limited rain fall and the soil is poor. it came up within 10 days. and has already started coming back although the temperatures are still low. it is the only grass seed i have had any luck with.
1975674
I can not say how this product would respond to hot Oklahoma temps. It does find in our temps (east coast ) which go up to 98+ at times. I can only say that it is the best grass seed I have used. I did place top layer of of top grade soil being seeding.