Poa Supina Grass Seed - Supranova Poa Supina Shade Grass Seed

Poa Supina Shade Grass

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Supranova Poa supina is the best shade grass seed that is available for cool season areas. This is 100% straight Poa supina grass seed. It is not blended with any rough blue grass or any other seed. Poa supina shade grass seed is well adapted to cold climates and is found commonly in the sub-alpine regions of the German and Austrian Alps.

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Supranova Poa supina is the elite shade grass for dense shade in cool season areas. This is the best primo shade lawn grass on market today. It is specially designed for deep shade and little water although it has been used for golf courses, lawns, and athletic field turf for over twenty years. Supranova shade grass has been developed over the last 20 years and the breeding keeps improving.

No other grass seed species outperforms this variety in the shade. It grows where no grass has grown before. It’s wear tolerance and aggressive growth make it ideal high maintenance and high wear areas. Today Supranova shade grass is the most shade tolerant, wear resistant, cool season grass on the market.

Grow Poa supina in colder climates as it is well adapted to cold temperatures and is found commonly in the sub-alpine regions of the German and Austrian Alps. In Germany, the common name is Lägerrispe, which means, "where the cows lay". The name is a reflection of the ability of Poa supina to persist and even thrive on cattle trails, even in shaded woodland areas. Another attractive asset is the apparent resistance of Poa supina to many diseases which results in fewer fungicide applications. Unfortunately, the cost of grass seed for shade is quite high; therefore, the practicality of seeding mono-stands of the grass is often economically unfeasible. Evidence from Germany suggests relatively low rates (e.g., less than 10%) of Poa supina seed can be mixed with other cool season grasses and after several years of heavy traffic the stand will be predominantly Poa supina, providing superior coverage compared to stands without Poa supina.

This is 100% Poa supina grass seed. This is NOT blended with rough bluegrass.

  • Germination: This shade grass seed typically germinates in 14 - 21 days.
  • Growth habit: Poa supina shade grass has upright growth habit with a slow vertical growth. Spreads by stolons. When left unmowed, height of foliage is 6 inches with seed head height 10 to 12 inches.
  • Adaptation: Poa supina Blue grass adapts well to shaded conditions and high traffic areas where soil compaction occurs. Very competitive with other grasses in situations of frequent mowing and traffic. Is favored in wet and moist conditions.
  • Mowing: After Poa supina shade grass reaches 2" mow for the first time. After this it may be mowed as low as 3/16 of an inch.
  • Disease: Grow Poa supina shade grass for excellent resistance to disease such as snow molds, dollar spot, red threads, and other pathogens.
  • New turf: Sow 2 - 3 pounds Poa supina seed per 1,000 square feet or 80 - 120 lbs per acre
  • Plant Poa supina Bluegrass seed when soil temperature reaches 55 degrees in spring up until a minimum of 12 weeks before frost in fall

Planting Guide

SOWING TEMPERATURE

55F+

WHEN TO PLANT

Spring 55F or up to 8 weeks before first frost

AVERAGE GERM TIME

5 - 28 days

DAYS TO FIRST MOWING

28 - 35 days

PLANTING DEPTH

Surface to 1/8 Inch

SOWING METHOD

Broadcast or Drill

MOWING HEIGHT

3/16 - 2 inches

ENVIRONMENT

Partial Shade - Shade

ZONES

3 - 7

Grass Specifications

IDEAL FOR

Lawns, Golf Courses

PLANT CHARACTERISTICS

Fine to Medium Bladed, Shade Tolerant

ESTABLISHMENT RATE

Slow

MOISTURE REQUIREMENTS

Moderate to Hiigh

ACIDIC SOIL TOLERANCE

Medium

SALINITY TOLERANCE

Moderate

COLD TOLERANCE

High

SHADE TOLERANCE

Good to Excellent

WEAR TOLERANCE

Medium to High

THATCH TENDENCY

Medium

FERTILIZER NEEDS

Low - Medium

HEIGHT

6 inches

SEASON

Perennial

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Low Maintenance
Our premier fine fescue grass seed blend is the ideal choice for busy people. This elite blend thrives in both full sun and partial shade, making it perfect for grass seed shade and sun mixes. Its adaptability allows it to flourish in infertile, dry soils with minimal upkeep, making it ideal for home owners seeking a low maintenance grass seed for lawns.
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High Endophyte Levels
Featuring exceptionally high endophyte levels, our fine fescue grass seed blend stands out for its durability and unwanted insect resistance. The endophytes protect against insects and plant sickness. This results in a healthier, more resilient lawn that maintains its lush appearance and quality with less need for chemical treatments or intensive care.
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
Our versatile fine fescue grass seed blend excels in a range of light conditions. It thrives in full sun to partial shade areas because these conditions provide the optimal balance of light and warmth needed for robust growth. Fine fescue grasses are well-suited to various light levels, allowing them to develop a dense, healthy turf that can adapt to both sunny and moderately shaded environments.
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Thrives in Difficult Conditions
Legacy fine fescue blend offers a robust tolerance to poor soil quality, drought, and low fertility. The combined attributes of the different fescue types result in a lawn that is highly resistant to environmental stresses such as heavy foot traffic, varying weather conditions, and fluctuating temperatures. This resilience ensures the lawn remains aesthetically pleasing and functional throughout the year.
Legacy Fine Fescue seed blend offers an exceptional solution for creating a lush, green lawn with fine leaf texture that exudes elegance and quality. This premier mix combines 20% hard fescue, 40% chewings fescue, and 40% creeping red fescue to deliver an immaculate turf that thrives even in the most challenging conditions. Known for its low maintenance needs, Legacy dense shade grass seed is highly adaptable to various soil types, including infertile and dry soils, and performs well under close mowing heights and in deep shade. Its high endophyte levels provide natural pest resistance, while its ability to establish easily makes it perfect for both high-management turf areas and low-maintenance, naturalized settings.
Now with OptiGrowth – The Ultimate Seed Enhancement which improves seed uniformity, ease of spreading, and soil contact during overseeding. Its moisture-retaining Aquatek absorbent boosts germination, while a blend of essential nutrients promotes healthy growth. With Elko kelp for vitality and added biologicals for stronger roots, OptiGrowth ensures long-term plant health and viability. Enjoy the comfort and beauty of a carpet-like lawn that feels as good as it looks with our fine fescue grass seed blend. Imagine walking barefoot on a smooth, lush surface of fine leaf blades that gently cushion your every step. Perfect for outdoor relaxation and play, this blend not only enhances the beauty of your lawn but also provides a serene, barefoot-friendly environment.
Our fine fescue grass seed blend is incredibly easy to establish, requiring minimal effort. For new turf, sow the seeds at a rate of 4 - 5 lbs per 1,000 square feet, ensuring a shallow planting depth of around ¼ inch or less. Plant when soil temperatures reach 55°F in spring or at least 8 weeks before the first fall frost. Lightly rake the seed into the soil for good seed-to-soil contact. Areas with dry shade are perfect for establishing the fine fescue sod in spring or fall.

Legacy is our premier fine fescue grass seed blend with three different varieties of fine fescue grass seed to give you the best turf possible. This elite blend combines hard fescue, chewings fescue, and creeping red fescue to give you the immaculate fine fescue lawn that you have been looking for. High quality look for a very low price!

Over the centuries, fine fescues have been renowned for their survival under extreme conditions. They grow in infertile and dry soils, tolerate close mowing heights, deep shade and grow in places where turf is neglected, tortured and forgotten. In these areas, fescues endure.


Legacy fine fescue grass seed mixture is the perfect solution to those difficult-to-manage turf areas. Legacy blend is hard fescue grass seed, chewings fescue grass seed and creeping red fescue grass seed, specially blended for optimum performance under the highest turf grass management, or planted as a cover for naturalizing low maintenance or native settings.


 

Classic hard fescue performance. Dense, dwarf, dark, compact growth that thrives in low fertility and infrequent irrigation. Extremely high endophyte levels. (roughly 20% of the mixture.)

The most unique advancement in fescue breeding—a true fescue with extraordinary turf quality. Fine textured and low-growing, with very high endophyte levels. (roughly 40% of the mixture.)

Extremely high quality turf with high levels of viable endophyte. Excellent soil stabilization through aggressive, rhizomatous growth habit. (roughly 40% of the mixture.)

Legacy fine fescue grass seed blend is perfect for partly to heavily shaded sites where water and fertilizer conservation is important. Areas with dry shade are perfect for establishing fine fescue grass seed blends in spring or fall.

Legacy fine fescue grass is an excellent mixture for establishing and stabilizing naturalized areas. From wildlife cover to wildflower beds, erosion buffers to bank stabilization, Legacy fine fescue blend is well suited to broadcast, drill, and hydroseedings.

  • New turf: Sow 4 - 5 pounds fine fescue lawn seed per 1,000 square feet or 160 - 200 lbs/acre for broadcast seeding
  • Over-seeding: Sow 2 - 2 1/2 pounds fine fescue grass seed per 1,000 square feet or 80 - 100 lbs per acre for broadcast over-seeding
  • Plant cool climate grass seed when soil temperature reaches 55 degrees in spring up until a minimum of 8 weeks before frost in fall

Planting Guide

SOWING TEMPERATURE

55F+

WHEN TO PLANT

Spring 55F or up to 8 weeks before first frost

AVERAGE GERM TIME

14 - 21 days

DAYS TO FIRST MOWING

26 - 32 days

PLANTING DEPTH

Surface to 1/4 Inch

SOWING METHOD

Broadcast or Drill

MOWING HEIGHT

2 - 2.5 inches

ENVIRONMENT

Full Sun to Partial Shade

ZONES

3 - 7

Grass Specifications

IDEAL FOR

Lawns, Low Maintenance Areas

PLANT CHARACTERISTICS

Fine Bladed, Shade Tolerance

ESTABLISHMENT RATE

Moderate

MOISTURE REQUIREMENTS

Moderate

ACIDIC SOIL TOLERANCE

Medium to High

SALINITY TOLERANCE

Low

COLD TOLERANCE

High

SHADE TOLERANCE

Excellent

WEAR TOLERANCE

Low

THATCH TENDENCY

Low to Medium

FERTILIZER NEEDS

Low

SEASON

Perennial

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True Putt is an excellent new perennial bluegrass that is medium green depending on fertility and forms a uniform, dense turf at green height. This creeping bluegrass is medium to fine textured and forms an extremely dense putting green grass surface. True Putt helps crowd out Poa annua better than creeping bentgrass. True Putt is a great grass seed choice for the home golf green. This drought-tolerant grass seed is available in 4 different sizes to suit your gardening needs.
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Blends Well with Bent Grass
This premium bluegrass seed seamlessly blends with creeping bentgrass seed to create a remarkably dense and uniform turf. Its vigorous growth and compatibility in a 50/50 mixture with creeping bentgrass ensure an exceptional playing surface. The combination of these two grasses results in a superior, lush green that thrives in various conditions.
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Shade Tolerant
Due to its adaptive growth habits, True Putt Bluegrass is know to be shade tolerant, allowing it to thrive in low-light conditions.Its fine-textured leaves are highly efficient at photosynthesis, maximizing energy production with limited sunlight. This unique combination of features makes it an excellent choice for maintaining a lush, green turf in areas with partial shade.
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Excellent Wear Tolerant
This wear-tolerant bluegrass seeds for lawn quickly recovers and regenerates, maintaining a lush and uniform appearance even under heavy use. making it perfect for high-traffic areas like home golf greens for a resilient, durable lawn that stands up to the rigors of daily activity. Its dense and robust growth provide a strong foundation that resists damage from frequent foot traffic.
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Drought Tolerant
True Putt Bluegrass is a drought-tolerant grass, thanks to its deep root system that efficiently accesses water from deeper soil layers. This allows the grass to maintain its lush, green appearance even during dry periods. Its robust and resilient nature ensures it withstands water stress and recovers quickly after drought conditions.
True-Putt will soon be one of the leading putting green grass varieties on the market. It excels in rapid establishment, quickly germinating to form a uniform, dense turf that enhances the beauty and functionality of home golf greens. Its robust nature allows it to tolerate low mowings, maintaining a smooth and even surface at various cutting heights. Additionally, True Putt Bluegrass is cold tolerant, thriving in cooler climates and ensuring a lush, green appearance year-round. This combination of features makes it an ideal choice for creating and maintaining high-quality turf in diverse conditions.
Our perennial grass seed is the perfect fit for managing Poa annua on putting surfaces due to its aggressive growth and dense turf formation. Its rapid establishment and uniform coverage crowd out Poa annua, reducing the presence of this invasive plants. By creating a competitive and healthy grass environment, True Putt Bluegrass seeds minimize Poa annua intrusion, ensuring a pristine and professional-looking putting surface. Choose True Putt Bluegrass for effective Poa annua management and superior turf quality on your golf greens.
Achieve the perfect putt with our creeping bluegrass seed. This bluegrass seed forms an extremely dense putting green surface. For optimal results, Sow 2 - 3 pounds of True Putt golf green seed per 1,000 square feet or 80 -120 lbs per acre for new turf and 1-2 pounds per 1000 square feet for overseeding. Plant True Putt Creeping Bluegrass seed when soil temperature reaches 55 degrees in spring up until a minimum of 8 weeks before frost in fall.

True Putt is an excellent new perennial bluegrass that is medium green depending on fertility and forms a uniform, dense turf at greens height. This creeping bluegrass is medium to fine textured and forms an extremely dense putting green grass surface. True Putt helps crowd out Poa annua better than creeping bentgrass. This Bluegrass seed germinates rapidly in 5 to 7 days under optimum conditions especially when kept continually moist. It is very vigorous and mixes well with creeping bent grass in a 50/50 mixture. True Putt is a great grass seed choice for the home golf green.

True-putt is drought and shade tolerant and recovers well after water stress events. Tolerates close mowing to 1/8 inch (optimum mowing height on greens is 5/32), but will also perform well at 1/2 inch mowing height. Creeping bluegrass is a deep rooted grass which has exhibited some field resistance to pink snowmold. This putting green grass is well adapted to the cool, moist climate especially in the northern half of the United States.

True-Putt will soon be one of the leading putting green grass varieties on the market. A creeping bluegrass putting green has excellent density, shade tolerance, heat tolerance, wear tolerance, and cold tolerance. True Putt golf grass establishes quickly from grass seed, and it produces a thick turf competing with the grassy weed Poa annua. For those of you who want to build your own putting green, True Putt is a great choice for putting green seed.

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  • New turf: Sow 2 - 3 pounds of True Putt golf green seed per 1,000 square feet or 80 -120 lbs per acre
  • Plant True Putt Creeping Bluegrass seed when soil temperature reaches 55 degrees in spring up until a minimum of 8 weeks before frost in fall

Planting Guide

SOWING TEMPERATURE

55F+

WHEN TO PLANT

Spring 55F or up to 8 weeks before first frost

AVERAGE GERM TIME

5 - 28 days

DAYS TO FIRST MOWING

28 - 35 days

PLANTING DEPTH

1/8 - 1/4 Inch

SOWING METHOD

Broadcast or Drill

MOWING HEIGHT

1/4 to 1/2 Inch

ENVIRONMENT

Full Sun to Partial Shade

ZONES

3 - 9

Grass Specifications

IDEAL FOR

Lawns, Golf Courses

PLANT CHARACTERISTICS

Fine to Medium Bladed, Dark Green

ESTABLISHMENT RATE

Slow

MOISTURE REQUIREMENTS

Moderate to Hiigh

ACIDIC SOIL TOLERANCE

Medium

SALINITY TOLERANCE

Moderate

COLD TOLERANCE

High

SHADE TOLERANCE

Poor

WEAR TOLERANCE

Medium to High

THATCH TENDENCY

Medium

FERTILIZER NEEDS

Medium

SEASON

Perennial

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Poa Supina Shade Grass Blend is a premium grass seed mix specifically designed for shaded, cool-season areas. It features Supranova Poa Supina, the high-performing shade grass that thrives in dense shade where other grasses fail. With a blend of 25% Supranova Poa Supina and 75% Poa Trivialis, this mix is engineered for durability and resilience in high-traffic areas, making it ideal for lawns, golf courses, and athletic fields. Adapted to cold temperatures and known for its disease resistance, this blend ensures lush, dense coverage in shaded environments, even under the stress of frequent mowing and foot traffic. It is available in 4 different sizes to suit your landscaping needs.
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Superior Shade Tolerance
This grass variety excels in shade tolerance, thriving in low light where other grasses struggle. Its unique adaptation to shaded environments, along with its ability to establish dense coverage, makes it an ideal solution for maintaining a lush, green lawn in areas with minimal sunlight.
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High Density Growth
This grass blend is characterized by its high-density growth, featuring Poa Supina shade grass seed and Rough Bluegrass seed. Both grasses exhibit an upright growth habit with a slow rate of vertical development. The blend spreads efficiently through stolons, ensuring even coverage over time.
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Superior Wear Tolerance
Supranova Poa Supina shade grass seed is now recognized as one of the most wear-resistant cool-season grasses available today. This grass is specially engineered to withstand challenging conditions, providing a resilient and durable solution for even the most demanding environments, ensuring a lush, healthy lawn where other grasses might fail.
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Tolerates Little Water
This grass is engineered to thrive in deep shade and requires minimal water, making it an ideal choice for challenging environments. Its resilience and adaptability to low-water conditions ensure it maintains its quality and appearance, even in areas with limited irrigation. This grass blend continues to be a trusted option for a variety of high-demand settings.
This grass thrives in areas where sunlight is scarce, maintaining a vibrant green color even in deep shade. It establishes quickly, requiring less time to achieve full coverage, and offers the benefits of reduced maintenance over time. Known for its longevity and resilience, this grass exhibits aggressive growth, ensuring a durable and persistent turf. If left unmowed, the foliage can reach a height of approximately 6 inches, while the seed heads extend to a height of 10 to 12 inches. This growth pattern provides a lush and dense turf that can thrive in shaded areas, offering an attractive and low-maintenance option for your lawn.
This resilient grass excels in cold environments and truly shines in shaded areas. Poa Supina is weather-resistant and ready for high-traffic use, thriving particularly well in the chilly climates of the German and Austrian Alps sub-alpine regions. Known in Germany as "Lagerrispe," or "where the cows lay," it’s tough enough to flourish on well-worn cattle trails and in shaded woodlands. Its robust nature makes it an ideal choice for challenging conditions, providing durability and consistent performance where other grasses may falter. With a proven track record of over twenty years, it has been successfully utilized for golf courses, lawns, and athletic fields.
This turf is optimized for shaded areas and exhibits exceptional cold tolerance, making it ideal for USDA Zones 3 to 7. Supranova shade grass typically germinates within 14 to 21 days and features an upright growth habit with slow vertical development, spreading effectively by stolons. Well-adapted to shaded and high-traffic areas, it competes strongly with other grasses, even under frequent mowing and soil compaction. The grass should be mowed for the first time when it reaches 2 inches, and it can be trimmed as low as 3/16 of an inch. For new turf, sow 2-3 pounds of seed per 1,000 square feet, with planting recommended in spring when soil temperatures reach 55°, up until 12 weeks before the first fall frost.

Supranova Poa Supina is the elite shade grass for dense shade in cool season areas. This is the best primo shade lawn grass on market today. It is specially designed for deep shade and little water although it has been used for golf courses, lawns, and athletic field turf for over twenty years. Supranova shade grass has been developed over the last 20 years and the breeding keeps improving.

No other species outperforms this variety in the shade. It grows where no grass has grown before. It’s wear tolerance and aggressive growth make it ideal high maintenance and high wear areas. Today Supranova Poa supina shade grass seed produces the most shade tolerant, wear resistant, cool season grass on the market.

Poa Supina is well adapted to cold temperatures and is found commonly in the sub-alpine regions of the German and Austrian Alps. In Germany, the common name is Lägerrispe, which means, "where the cows lay". The name is a reflection of the ability of Poa supina to persist and even thrive on cattle trails, even in shaded woodland areas. Another attractive asset is the apparent resistance of Poa supina to many diseases which results in fewer fungicide applications. Unfortunately, the cost of grass seed for shade is quite high; therefore, the practicality of seeding mono-stands of the grass is often economically unfeasible. Evidence from Germany suggests relatively low rates (e.g., less than 10%) of Poa supina seed can be mixed with other cool season grasses and after several years of heavy traffic the stand will be predominantly Poa supina, providing superior coverage compared to stands without Poa supina.

We have gone the extra mile to include 25% of Poa supina in our shade grass mix so you get faster results and better performance. We mix it with Poa Trivialis which is also very shade tolerant. CPoa Trivialis thrives when cool, moist conditions prevail which is your typical Northern Climate shade. Poa Trivialis seed produces a fine-textured turf grass and develops a high shoot density under cool, moist conditions. It is capable of withstanding a considerable amount of shade. It is one of the most winter hardy turf grasses with very good low temperature tolerance. When you combine Creeping Fescue and Poa supina into one mix, you get the absolute best grass seed for shade for cooler climates at an economical price.

This mixture approximately contains the following:

  • 25% Supranova Poa Supina Bluegrass
  • 75% Poa Trivialis
  • Germination: This shade grass seed typically germinates in 14 - 21 days.
  • Growth habit: Poa supina shade grass has upright growth habit with a slow vertical growth. Spreads by stolons. When left unmowed, height of foliage is 6 inches with seed head height 10 to 12 inches.
  • Adaptation: Poa supina has adapt well to shaded conditions and high traffic areas where soil compaction occurs. Very competitive with other grasses in situations of frequent mowing and traffic.
  • Mowing: After Poa supina shade grass reaches 2" mow for the first time. After this it may be mowed as low as 3/16 of an inch.
  • New turf: Sow 2 - 3 pounds shade grass seed per 1,000 square feet or 80 - 120 lbs per acre
  • Plant Poa supina shade grass mix when soil temperature reaches 55 degrees in spring up until a minimum of 12 weeks before frost in fall

Planting Guide

SOWING TEMPERATURE

55F+

WHEN TO PLANT

Spring 55F or up to 8 weeks before first frost

AVERAGE GERM TIME

5 - 28 days

DAYS TO FIRST MOWING

28 - 35 days

PLANTING DEPTH

Surface to 1/8 Inch

SOWING METHOD

Broadcast or Drill

MOWING HEIGHT

3/16 - 2 inches

ENVIRONMENT

Partial Shade - Shade

ZONES

3 - 7

Grass Specifications

IDEAL FOR

Lawns, Golf Courses

PLANT CHARACTERISTICS

Fine to Medium Bladed, Shade Tolerant

ESTABLISHMENT RATE

Slow

MOISTURE REQUIREMENTS

Moderate to Hiigh

ACIDIC SOIL TOLERANCE

Medium

SALINITY TOLERANCE

Moderate

COLD TOLERANCE

High

SHADE TOLERANCE

Good to Excellent

WEAR TOLERANCE

Medium to High

THATCH TENDENCY

Medium

FERTILIZER NEEDS

Low - Medium

HEIGHT

6 inches

SEASON

Perennial

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Combat Extreme Transition Zone Grass Seed is a three-way turf-type fescue blend, featuring premium varieties such as Annihilator or Marauder for heat resistance and superior turf quality, Chanell for high-traffic, low-maintenance areas, Rhizing Moon or Bloodhound for exceptional heat resistance, Barbarian for moderate height maintenance, Roman for performance across diverse soil types, and Warhawk for a beautiful dark green turf. It produces grass with fine to medium leaf blades which allow it to form a dense turf. It does extremely well in full sun or partial shade in USDA Zones 6 -7. It is available in 4 different sizes to suit your gardening needs.
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Excellent Color
This tall fescue grass seed maintains its rich green color even in winter's low temperatures and withstands stressful weather conditions, ensuring a resilient and vibrant lawn year-round. Perfect for challenging climates, this seed blend offers exceptional durability and aesthetic appeal.
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Highly Adaptable
This blend of fescue seed varieties combines top-performing varieties to thrive in your environment and adapt to various conditions. This blend features lower-growing cultivars, making it ideal for shady areas where warm-season grasses struggle. Enjoy a resilient, adaptable lawn with exceptional performance and versatility.
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Self-Repairing
Our shady grass seed blend excels at filling in open areas in the lawn through tillering, knitting the grass together seamlessly. It quickly repairs damaged or bare spots by producing new shoots, ensuring a consistently lush and healthy lawn that can self-repair and maintain its beauty. It is ideal for those needing grass seed for patching bare spots.
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Rapid Germination
Our grass seed for shady areas offers rapid germination and quickly establishes a lush lawn. With its early spring green-up, you'll enjoy a greener lawn earlier than with other grass seeds, ensuring a vibrant and healthy landscape right from the start of the season. Perfect for creating a stunning, resilient lawn quickly and efficiently.
Combat Extreme Transition Zone Fescue Grass Seed is a cost-effective solution featuring fine to medium leaf blades and improved drought tolerance. It draws moisture from a deep profile, allowing it to withstand drought and heat with less irrigation. Ideal for the transition zone climate, this grass seed reduces the need for over-seeding, minimizes weed problems, and prevents unsightly wide-leafed clumps, ensuring a beautiful and resilient lawn.
Now with OptiGrowth – The Ultimate Seed Enhancement which improves seed uniformity, ease of spreading, and soil contact during overseeding. Its moisture-retaining Aquatek absorbent boosts germination, while a blend of essential nutrients promotes healthy growth. With Elko kelp for vitality and added biologicals for stronger roots, OptiGrowth ensures long-term plant health and viability. Blending fescue grass seed varieties that have high-quality performance on some of the desired characteristics allow the lawn to adapt itself to various conditions.
Ordinary tall fescue grass seeds require maintenance from over-seeding, weed problems, and clumps. Combat Extreme Cold Climate grass seed results in less over-seeding, fewer unwanted plant problems, and no "wide-leafed ugly clumps" of tall fescue plants in open areas. You can plant it by sowing 8 - 10 pounds of grass seed per 1,000 square feet for new turfs and 4 - 5 pounds per 1,000 square feet when over-seeding your lawn. Plant turf-type tall fescue grass seed when soil temperature reaches 55 degrees in spring up until a minimum of 6 weeks before frost in fall.


Combat Extreme™ Transition Zone Grass Seed three way turf type fescue grass seed blend that produces grass with fine to medium leaf blades which allow it to form a dense turf. This seed blend has lower growing cultivars. Combat Extreme™ is a great lawn seed for shady areas, something that warm season grasses cannot provide. This fescue grass seed blend produces grass with superior heat and drought tolerance and makes Combat Extreme™ grass seed an excellent choice for professional or home use.


Three Combat Blends To Optimize Varieties:

Each Combat Extreme mixture will perform well outside of the given zone. For example, there is no reason you could not use Combat Extreme™ Transition Zone in USDA Zone 8 or Combat Extreme™ Northern Zone in USDA 6. These USDA Zones are given as optimal guidelines, but not as fixed rules.

Unlike other turf type fescue grass seeds, Combat Extreme has the ability to repair itself. Traditional tall fescue grass seeds will clump together, not filling in the bare spots and producing an uneven lawn. With bare spots, weeds are more apt to take over the lawn. What makes Combat Extreme™ grass seed unique is its ability to fill in these open areas with aggressive tillering.

Self-repairing turf
  • Fills in open areas in the lawn by means of tillering
  • Knits the lawn grass together
  • Quickly fills in damaged or open spots with new shoots of grass
Strong, deep root system
  • Ability to draw its moisture from a deep profile
  • Excellent drought and heat tolerant with less irrigation
  • Excellent in the transition zone climate
Produces a thick even lawn grass
  • Ability to repair itself through tillering– repairs open areas within a lawn
Excellent color and disease resistant
  • Withstands stressful weather conditions
  • Holds its rich green color, even through winter’s low temperatures
Rapid germination and quick spring green-up
  • Quickly establishing grass seed
  • Early spring green-up – have a greener lawn earlier in the spring then other grass seeds
Higher value for the home owner than conventional tall fescue grass seed
  • Ordinary tall fescue grass seeds require maintenance from over-seeding, weed problems, and clumps. Combat Extreme™ Cold Climate grass seed results in less over-seeding, fewer weed problems and no "wide-leafed ugly clumps" of tall fescue plants in open areas.

Blending fescue grass seed varieties together that have top performance on some of the desired characteristics allows the lawn to adapt itself to various conditions. In the shady areas, the grass seed varieties with good shade tolerance will prevail, in the high traffic areas the best wear tolerant grass seed varieties will prevail, etc. The result is a beautiful lawn grass everywhere, from the same seed blend.

  • New turf: Sow 8 - 10 pounds Combat Extreme™ grass seed per 1,000 square feet or 320 - 400 lbs/acre for broadcast seeding
  • Over-seeding: Sow 4 - 5 pounds tall turf type fescue grass seed per 1,000 square feet or 160 - 200 lbs per acre for broadcast over-seeding
  • Planting: Plant turf type tall fescue grass seed when soil temperature reaches 55 degrees in spring up until a minimum of 6 weeks before frost in fall

Planting Guide

SOWING TEMPERATURE

55F+

WHEN TO PLANT

Spring 55F or up to 6 weeks before first frost

AVERAGE GERM TIME

7 - 14 Days

DAYS TO FIRST MOWING

21 - 30 Days

PLANTING DEPTH

Surface to 1/8 Inch

SOWING METHOD

Broadcast or Drill

MOWING HEIGHT

2.5 - 3 Inches

ENVIRONMENT

Full Sun to Partial Shade

ZONES

3 - 8

Grass Specifications

IDEAL FOR

Lawns, Parks, Recreation Fields

PLANT CHARACTERISTICS

Wear Tolerance, Medium Bladed

ESTABLISHMENT RATE

Mod

MOISTURE REQUIREMENTS

Low to Moderate

ACIDIC SOIL TOLERANCE

High

SALINITY TOLERANCE

Low

COLD TOLERANCE

Medium

SHADE TOLERANCE

Good to Excellent

WEAR TOLERANCE

Medium to High

THATCH TENDANCY

Low

FERTILITY NEEDS

Low to Medium

SEASON

Perennial

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Crystal BlueLinks Creeping Bentgrass is an exceptional choice for golf greens, tees, and fairways due to its superior turf quality, as demonstrated by its top ranking in NTEP fairway trials. This variety boasts a striking blue-green color and offers excellent resistance to common turf diseases like brown patches and dollar spots. Its semi-erect growth habit, combined with strong heat, cold, and shade tolerance, ensures year-round performance, making it suitable for a wide range of climates, from the Northern U.S. to the transition zones in hotter regions. It is available in 3 different sizes to suit your needs.
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Brilliant blue-green color
Crystal BlueLinks bent grass offers a brilliant blue-green color that sets it apart from other turf varieties. This vibrant hue not only enhances the visual appeal of your lawn but also reflects the superior health and vitality of the grass. Whether you’re establishing a putting green turf or a home lawn, the rich color of Crystal BlueLinks will make your landscape stand out.
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Combines brown patch and dollar spot resistance
Crystal BlueLinks bent grass is specially engineered to combine brown patch and dollar spot resistance, offering superior protection against common turf sickness. This makes it an excellent choice for maintaining a healthy lawn or golf course with minimal chemical intervention.This allows for better long-term turf quality, even in regions prone to humidity and moisture.
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Excellent shade tolerance
For areas with limited sunlight, Crystal BlueLinks Bent Grass offers excellent shade tolerance. This bentgrass thrives in conditions where other grass types might struggle, making it ideal for shaded lawns, golf courses, and parks. It requires as little as 3 hours of direct sunlight per day, ensuring a lush, green lawn even in challenging light conditions.
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Great winter color
Maintaining a vibrant lawn through the colder months is easy with Crystal BlueLinks Bent Grass, known for its great winter color. Unlike other grass varieties that fade or brown during winter, this bentgrass retains its rich blue-green hue, providing year-round aesthetic appeal. Its cold tolerance makes it a perfect choice for northern regions, while also performing well in transitional climates.
Crystal BlueLinks Bent Grass is your go-to for lush, professional-quality greens. It offers superior playability and aesthetics while reducing maintenance. Whether paired with Bermuda grass seed or zoysia grass seed, this bentgrass ensures fast-growing, vibrant greens ideal for putting greens or fairways. Achieve a seamless, high-performance lawn that rivals professional courses with Crystal BlueLinks.
Crystal BlueLinks Bent Grass is designed to be weather-resilient, offering exceptional cold and heat tolerance. Crystal Bluelink's cold and heat tolerance is exceptional. It can be used throughout the Northern U.S. including Alaska. It can be used throughout the transition zone in very hot states like Kanas and is used as far South as Palm Springs and many other Southern states.
Achieve golf course quality with Crystal BlueLinks Bent Grass. With a seeding rate of 1 - 1 1/2 lbs per 1,000 sq. ft., this bentgrass is perfect for creating a lush, green turf that’s easy to maintain. Whether you choose to broadcast or slit seeding, plant creeping Bentgrass seed when the soil temperature reaches 55 degrees in spring up until a minimum of 6 weeks before frost in fall. Enjoy a flawless, professional-grade lawn effortlessly.

The Grass Seed Certification program establishes the genetic purity and germination of varieties, blends, and mixtures. The certification process begins with the proper field history before production and continues through the bagging of a grass seed lot with every step independently verified by Seed Certification personnel. Each bent grass seed lot to be certified is sampled by Certification personnel and tested in the state seed laboratory, so the grass seed you buy is the seed that was tested If even one standard in this process failed, the lot is uncertified. You can rest assured that your bent grass seed is certified!

Planting Guide

SOWING TEMPERATURE

55F+

WHEN TO PLANT

Spring 55F or up to 6 weeks before first frost

AVERAGE GERM TIME

6 - 10 days

DAYS TO FIRST MOWING

21 - 30 Days

PLANTING DEPTH

Surface to 1/8 Inch

SOWING METHOD

Broadcast or Drill

MOWING HEIGHT

1/4 - 1/2 Inch

ENVIRONMENT

Full Sun to Partial Shade

ZONES

3 - 8

Grass Specifications

IDEAL FOR

Lawns, Golf Courses, Putting Greens

PLANT CHARACTERISTICS

Fine Bladed, Dark Green

ESTABLISHMENT RATE

Moderate to Fast

MOISTURE REQUIREMENTS

High

ACIDIC SOIL TOLERANCE

Medium to High

SALINITY TOLERANCE

High

COLD TOLERANCE

Low

SHADE TOLERANCE

Poor to Moderate

WEAR TOLERANCE

Low

THATCH TENDANCY

High

FERTILITY NEEDS

High

SEASON

Perennial

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