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All-Purpose Lawn Seed

A balanced grass seed mix that endures in sun or shade. Blend of fescue, bluegrass and ryegrass. Designed to produce turf that is dense and requiring less care. Can withstand 100% sun or reasonably heavy shade
Average Customer Rating:
4.171 out of 5
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29 of 35(83%)reviewers would recommend this product to a friend.
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Customer Reviews for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
Review 1 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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cyn88canada

no good for me

Date:August 24, 2012
"I tried this grass seed to repair dry patches in my front lawn. It's cheap, compared to the name brands, but I thought it would work well. Unfortunately, I've had no luck with it -- do not see grass growing at all where I planted the seeds. True, it has been a dry year, but still...I expected better results, and am disappointed."
+2points
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Review 2 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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3 out of 5
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3 out of 5
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2 out of 5
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3 out of 5
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Rodney128

Not The greatest

Date:May 27, 2011
"I have used this product and followed the instructions and the grass is growing but only in patches it seem like about 1/2 the seed is not germinating."
+5points
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Review 3 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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5 out of 5
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5 out of 5
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Oliversmom
Location:Cobourg, ON

We buy several bags of this every year

Date:May 10, 2011
"This is the only grass seed I've bought the past 4 yrs. After stuggling with a lousy sodded lawn for about 10 yrs and watching it die out every hot summer, we finally dug the yard up and seeded it down with this seed. Our yard has maybe 3" of topsoil and sandy soil underneath. We seeded heavily the first year, watered twice a wk during a hot summer and ended with a great looking lawn. It's never burnt off since with a minimum of watering once a wk during dry spells. We over seed spring and late fall with All Purpose seed and I wouldn't waste money on the other expensive brands."
+17points
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Review 4 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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1 out of 5
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daytona55

worst seed ever

Date:May 6, 2010
"i would not recomend this seed to anybody i reseeded my lawn 3 weeks ago watered it and watched it sit there and do nothing it still sits on bare soil and not a sprout"
-3points
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Review 5 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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5 out of 5
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leftisright
Location:Oshawa, Ontario

Top Quality!

Date:July 1, 2009
"I filled in some bare patches in our shady backyard with this, and did a separate patch with some Scott's Shade seed. Both have done well, but this brand has come in thicker. It's a better price than the brand names, especially when it goes on sale, when the price is unbeatable!."
+7points
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Review 6 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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Westfinn
Location:Edmonton, AB

Poor Quality

Date:May 31, 2009
"I purchased 8 bags of this grass seed to overseed my lawn 3 weeks ago. I am still waiting for it to germinate. I believe all the preprep work was done as it should have been. My son who did the work has 8 years of landscape experience and even he can't figure out why it hasn't germinated yet. I bought it on sale but am so disappointed with this product and will likely never purchase it again."
+5points
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Review 7 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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KdnTire
Location:Maritimes

No Payback despite cost

Date:November 28, 2008
"While this is cheap seed, tempting these days since the western seed shortage, I have little to no success overseeding or virgin seeding this product."
-1point
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Review 8 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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3 out of 5
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thegardenner

fair purchase

Date:September 26, 2008
"This cheap grass seed establishes extremely fast, but looses against weed and shade."
-1point
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Review 9 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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5 out of 5
5 out of 5
Eaton
Location:GTA

All Purpose Seed

Date:September 20, 2008
"Works great. It comes right up and with some fertilizer it will keep growing. It grows well in shade or sun and looks nice with allot of color."
-1point
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Review 10 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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5 out of 5
5 out of 5
beewise

Works well

Date:September 19, 2008
"I buy this every year to overseed my lawn in the spring. Mix it with some earth (top soil or black earth) and then spread the earth in the areas you want to improve. It works well and is moderately priced."
+4points
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Review 11 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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4 out of 5
4 out of 5
rockyblu
Location:Dorcheste ON

good product for shade

Date:September 16, 2008
"This product is good for shade but must have adequate water to continue to thrive. I tried under some large trees, once it sprouted it grew well but after first cut it started to wilt until I watered it well. I have a very large area and do not water. I rely on rain only. So to maintain the lawn from theese seeds it needs a good watering program."
+2points
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Review 12 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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3 out of 5
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AllThumbs2
Location:barrie

Good For The Price

Date:September 14, 2008
"This grass seed works well but you must pay attention to proper preparation of the soil. It does not work well in heavy shaded ares. Other products germinate better and require less seed per sq.ft. This product does work well for over seeding purposes."
-2points
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Review 13 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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4 out of 5
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loupee
Location:Ottawa

Decent seed

Date:September 12, 2008
"I bought this and didn't have great hopes but a little raking and a little water and the area is filled in nicely. It came up quickly too."
-1point
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Review 14 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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5 out of 5
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CountryBumkin
Location:Ingersoll, Ontario

Good general purpose!

Date:September 10, 2008
"Sprouted quickly! Now it grows quicker than our old grass!"
-1point
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Review 15 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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4 out of 5
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driver1

More pluses than minuses

Date:July 11, 2008
"A lawn expert might not like this blend, but for an average city lot it is great.
A high end blend would be mostly fine leaved grasses and mostly Perennial grasses which tend to be slower to establish.
This product appears to be mostly the faster Annual and Bi-Annual types, and the grass blades are quite thick and coarse.
But for the dead areas that you can get when the snow banks disappear, this is great for a quick green up, and fills in quickly.
I have used this for many years in a row now, and I do find that it will be thin the 2nd or 3rd year when the Annual and Bi-Annual grasses die out if the Perennial grasses haven't had a chance to take over.
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I tried something last year that I plan to do again this year... I put seed down in the LATE FALL (when the snow already started to fall) where I knew the one snow bank from the next door driveway always kills my grass. I found that seed sprouted and started to grow before we could even get out there to do any spring work and about a month before CT had it on sale at the bargain price for the first time.
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+1point
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Review 16 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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4 out of 5
4 out of 5
Beautiful746
Location:Vancouver, BC

Not Bad

Date:June 4, 2008
"Bought this because it was on sale. Sprouted extremely fast. Looks pretty good. And keeps growing. The only downside is that is grows unusually fast than most grasses."
-1point
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Review 17 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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5 out of 5
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ruralrater
Location:Rural Edmonton Alberta Area

Great for High Traffic or Shady areas...

Date:June 4, 2008
"Got a lot of grand-kids or critters running around the yard every summer? Do you have a problem area that doesn't get a lot of sun or moisture? We have an area between our garage and house that sees a huge volume of traffic and very little sun. We had been thinking of laying paving stones in this smaller area (still quite an expense). Two small bags of the CT Seed, 3 weeks of watering and voila! No more dry scorched earth. Seems to be holding up well, but time will tell."
-1point
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Review 18 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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5 out of 5
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Share

Date:June 4, 2008
"I have used the product on my lawn and have had very good results with it."
-1point
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Review 19 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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5 out of 5
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atbarron
Location:Pickering, Ontario

All-Purpose Lawn Seed

Date:June 3, 2008
"I found this lawn seed GREAT! Will use it again. Great price."
-1point
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Review 20 for All-Purpose Lawn Seed
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fieroman1978
Location:brandon, manitoba

wow

Date:June 1, 2008
"this was my first lawn i seeded, and this seed was on sale so i seeded my whole lawn for under $10. Germinated within a few days, and sprouted in 8 days!!!"
-1point
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