Pennington Smart Seed Dense Shade, 3 lbs

I have three areas where grass has not grown over the last couple of years. I tried several different brands and techniques without results. Aeration with over-seeding, Thatching with over-seeding. Nothing was working. This summer I tried Pennington Smart Seed Dense shade in one of the areas, and I am cutting new grass :-) I am now going to work on a second area, and hopefully this will be as successful.

This seed did an awesome job at germinating, and is filling in 100% bare patches quite nicely! Now, we'll see how well it tolerates having ~3 hours of sun, as advertised. The fertilizer coating is awful. Green powder coated everything and everyone involved in spreading this stuff. But, if you look past it, it works. As always, when I look through reviews of grass seed, I see a lot of dissatisfied people, because they weren't experienced at successfully growing grass from seed. Makes it hard to find a true average rating of seed quality. Follow the bag's "optional" steps. They're actually required for most soil types. I have impacted clay, and I had to go above and beyond, with ph correction, a full tilling, adding mulch, then raking in of seed after spreading. Otherwise, it wouldn't have a chance. Don't expect miracles XD