I Planted the CHEAPEST Most HATED Grass Seed: Here’s What Happened…

[@suburbanacreage]

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[@SeahawkAz]

KY31 is great if you don’t have irrigation and want a low maintenance grass where all you will have to do is fertilize a couple of times a year and mow. If you have a dense lawn you can make it look pretty good

[@nickbailey202]

I've been on a multi-year quest to level my yard (20 yards of topsoil), fill in the bare spots, and get a consistent type of grass. It never once occurred to me that the lighter shade of green of the fescue blend I'm using was something others didn't find appealing. Then again I don't like bourbon or sushi either so I guess I'm just oblivious to most things.

[@suburbanacreage]

20 yards is no joke! What kind of equipment are you running? Please say a shovel and wheelbarrow!

[@JCLawn51]

If you use any iron supplement it will darken that grass. I've used it in areas where grass is hard to grow and color is highly dependent on what's in the soil. That's why you got light and dark areas. Lots of trees around and no grass, that's usually a sign of depleted nutrients in the soil and your pH might be wacked. The only time I have lime green k31 was planting where pine trees had been. A perfect lime green color where the needles were and then outside of that circle it was dark green.

[@ryan.coogler]

I think you might be the only person to per-germinate K31 for the own home lawn! The Venn Diagram of those two things don't usually touch 😅

[@suburbanacreage]

It’s a very silly video for multiple reasons, thanks for checking it out!

[@brianbrinegar6086]

Excellent video. Please follow-up with your recommended seed for Temperature Zones.

[@lisamoss3146]

I just threw some down not even a week ago. It's my 3rd time seeding this fall. My first time was early September and i used up a bag of Champion 3x3 fescue seed that I bought from a nursery two years ago. I thought I stored it properly but for some reason it didn't come up this time. Maybe too old? I couldn't get back to the nursery to get more premium seed because they were always closed when I was off. So I went with what Lowe's had at the time and that was Sta- Green performance Max Tall Fescue. Threw a bag of that down and 3 weeks later.... nothing. So here we are, beginning of October and I came across the Pennington k-31 in Lowe's, and even though I saw this in the store and looked it up online and was met with not such great reviews, I went with it anyway because my yard is looking pretty bad. For the first time in years I lost a lot of grass this summer. I normally let my lawn go dormant and it's not an issue reviving it in the fall but this year I had used a lawn mowing company who came out and mowed every single week regardless if it was dormant or not, even after they assured me they would never cut the lawn if it didn't need it, so a lot of my front yard burned up this year. At this point I'm just desperate to get something to grow and cover up the bare spots and make my yard look green again. If it's not a great grass I'll deal with it next year in the spring. From what I read though this stuff is pretty indestructible and heat and drought tolerant and I know for a fact that the premium seeds I have gone with in the past have been very tough ro maintain in the summer heat. I do not have a lawn sprinkler system and I'm not up early enough to water during the recommended window and then I'm gone all day and by the time I come home it's pretty much night.

[@arthurrodriguez1965]

K31 is rated at the very bottom of the National Turfgrass Ratings Index. There are a lot of reasons for that.

[@tribulation138]

Why. It's self repairing bunching grass

[@drew-shourd]

Great video, thank you for making and sharing it. Great tips...appreciated. 💚🙏🌱

[@RainPoint]

Thanks for sharing the video. It's so cool.

[@richardbalka3353]

I have only used K31 as a pasture grass. It's qualities make it perfect for that.

[@riccochet704]

It will darken up as it matures. You can also spread some ironite to darken it up. K31 is pretty low maintenance as well. Great for large properties for cost and maintenance reasons alone. I have 2 acres of lawn to maintain and generally buy 1000 lbs of K31 to overseed every year. If I was buying turf type that would get expensive quickly.

[@rustyfan89]

My backyard is just over an acre and my front is around 2000 sq. ft. I ve put all my time and money in to the front, the back, well, it gets mowed. I was thinking of trying to find something on the cheaper side, I’ve known about Kentucky 31 but never used it so I appreciate the video, might be the ticket for my back , don’t want to fork out the bucks to cover an acre with barenbrug like is in my front. Tractor supply has a northern landscapers mix that’s like 100.00 for 50 lb bag was thinking about that, I’ve never heard or have seen anyone use that. But might have to consider the Kentucky 31. Like I said I don’t really do anything other than cut the back, I’ll hit it with some cheap weed killer in the beginning of the season when the first dandelion s pop up but that’s about it

[@lefty5885]

I love the vevor spreader. This is my second season using it.

[@suburbanacreage]

Right?! I try not to recommend crap to people and that thing is awesome. Can’t believe I spread peat by hand for years. If you hate money you could always buy the Landzie one for $400. I have a few things from Vevor, solid all around!

[@bensexton254]

Agree. Picked up one on eBay a few weeks ago for 60 bucks!

[@lefty5885]

@@suburbanacreage no need to pay for a Landzie

[@lefty5885]

@@bensexton254 that's a heck of a deal.

[@johnnywyskiel]

My K31 looked fine initially, but it became way too coarse after a year.

[@suburbanacreage]

That seems to be the popular consensus. I guess I’m in for a longer experiment than I thought.

[@HaroldRutila]

LOL I thought this was a joke! I can’t believe what I just watched 😂. This crap gets into my lawn every year and needs to be manually removed or sprayed to eliminate. Perhaps on your next video you will seed with Dallisgrass. It’s even better than K31 😂.

[@suburbanacreage]

If by better you mean worse, then count me in. You know, mowed dandelions can actually look pretty good too! Thanks for watching and glad you had fun.

[@chuckHart70]

I live in a cul-de-sac and I have the triangle of death part where you got Street sidewalk and then the walkway to the street the absolute best thing to put there has been k-31 I've tried all the fescues Etc 231 wins out. And for those that say it hurts their feet I suggest you man up Plus in my yard what hurts is the sticks that fall from the twenty trees I have in tiny Suburban yard. So for me its price point and performance and k31 is a good seat if I can't find something else

[@hatpeach1]

I hate K31. Took me ten years to get it all out... TEN YEARS.

[@drewdevon2009]

better than crab grass clover dandelion etc that covers 60 percent of most peoples lawns

[@NextLevelLawnCare]

just wait till its mature, and feels like walking on thistle weeds (my neighbors yard is all k31, then its lime green color is its best trait. Kentucky 31 was developed by the University of Kentucky in 1931, hence the name. at its creation it was intended as a drought tolerant cultivar. in the last 93 years since it was created the genetics of grass has improved so much that even the least drought tolerant modern cultivars are still more drought tolerant than k31 rendering it a cheap pasture quality ground cover that has no business in a yard that wants to be used by even just the dogs. you get what you pay for.

[@coreysellers4529]

Right! I made the mistake of falling for the k31 hype and overseesed my whole lawn a few years ago. Now I have clumps of very fast growing pasture grass. I'm in the process of glyphosating and re seeding.

[@drewdevon2009]

k31 sounds great then, i dont want people or dogs walking on my lawn anyway

[@twilson377]

Looks pretty!

[@shawndarter5159]

I only use this grass seed and works well for me

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[@suburbanacreage]

Get out of here bot

[@davefrisby5194]

@@suburbanacreage hey Im sorry about that, I had just watched your video on the "fescue 31" (I didnt know it had that bad of a rap,,lol) and then this @chrisnaugle vidio came on and I thought that I was posting in that feed/chat. I just saw this now... anyway, I do like watching your videos too, so keet up the good work!

[@suburbanacreage]

Haha, a human after all. Thanks for watching!

[@AlexKunstar]

Wait til that k31 actually matures into thick corse nasty blades after a year

[@chuckHart70]

Cry more. Its grass

[@AlexKunstar]

@chuckHart70 it makes no difference to me, not my lawn. I'm just warning anyone else from making this mistake. I'd honestly rather have weeds in my lawn than k31, it would be much easier to get rid of

[@rentoptional1524]

Nearly my entire lawn died from fungus this year. It was hot/humid and we barely had rain. I over watered. I power raked everything and reseeded with ky31. My previous lawn was a mixture of ryegrass and TTTF. I know its cheap but i have a dog and kids that beat the hell out of my lawn. I didnt want to drop 5x on KBG. Also put down a ton of lime and the necessary amount of starter fertilizer. 3 weeks in, and my lawn looks great. Sure ill have thicker grass blades and some clumps in a few years, but the lawn care reddit leads you to believe that you're planting spurge.

[@wayneessar7489]

How many head will you be grazing?

[@suburbanacreage]

Best comment yet!

[@SeahawkAz]

KY32 is for grazing animals, KY31 has Endophytes which gives it a poor taste to the animals

[@Wakeywhodat]

That is a pasture grass.

[@boloyung88]

I started mine lol wish me luck

[@wilburyuen]

It's gonna stay lime green. I have that.

[@solow970]

I planted this last fall. 3 spots germinated then died mid summer

[@ssfish717]

Seems like you have some really drainage issues with all that standing water, especially so close to the house and shed

[@suburbanacreage]

Most definitely do!

[@henryknox1186]

K31 is awesome. Box store seed is crap and way too expensive.

[@drewdevon2009]

why is grass seed outrageously priced?

[@wilsonline90]

It's not. If disagree, go produce your own and sell it. Bs

[@drewdevon2009]

@@wilsonline90 you have a good point. that argument can be used about any product for sale though. dont like the 100K dollar price of a tesla? go make your own!

[@obsessedwithlawnoddswithgr2092]

price gouging brother. rice and weat are much cheaper after all the processing. even the most expensive rice is cheaper than grass seed. They always say make your own. make your own rice it's gonna be $10 a pound. I gust quit buying grass seed. I just put lots of nitrogen in fall and got kbg to spread.

[@Gunzandroses212]

Dude you pre germinated k31?? Why ? Why a waste time on it when you are in 2024. There are much better grasses out there. Especially if you going to go through all that smh

[@donnobles5272]

Spend the money and buy blue tag seed. K31 has weed seed in it and you are planting lots of weed with it. Buy once cry once dont settle for crap

[@wilsonline90]

No thanks

[@dalewiley9208]

K31 is good, but only if you can get it weed free.

[@drewdevon2009]

nothings weed free

[@slimdude2011]

No grass seed is weed free! All grass seed has a certain percentage of weeds, but the cheap grass seed have a higher percentage of weeds. That's why it's so cheap! I wish there were such a thing as weed free grass seed but unfortunately, it's not.

[@sunseeker6088]

Dude, you will be mowing every other day……this is the seed we use for pastures so the horses have fast growing grass to eat. Hard pass

[@slimdude2011]

You've made a big mess of that job! Why can't people just plant grass seeds the way it's been planted for centuries? Pre-germination is total waste of time and most likely, you'll end up with bad results because, it's being done incorrectly from the beginning. Manufacturers prints the instructions on their product for the users to follow, but no. Some people are going to do what they want to do anyway regardless of, and they wonder why it doesn't work out. The problem wasn't the type of grass seed, it was your incorrect method of applying it. When you plant new grass seed, you are supposed to use a starter fertilizer (unless the starter fertilizer is already in it), not Milogranite. Milogranite is an organic, slow-release fertilizer, and it's to be used on already established lawns, not with newly planted grass seed. That's what starter fertilizer is for! Planting grass seed should only take an hour or less to plant, depending on the area, not a 2-weeks project. The time that it took you to pre-germinate the grass seed, the job could've been done a long time ago. I like to work smarter, not harder!

[@inkstains1]

At 3:55 he uses a starter fertilizer, the Milorganite is only used to help throw the wet seed out using a spreader. Pre-germination is not really a time saver, it uses less water. If you hate pre-germination, then don't do it. But it's very handy for me because i did it about 6 times this summer and i don't have in ground irrigation but i had great germination. I am not wanting to water bluegrass for 20 days... some of those seed will dry out for sure. Not with pregerm tho. If you've got an irrigation system, I suppose you can hate on pregerm because you've got all the water you need.

[@suburbanacreage]

The starter fertilizer used was “Scott’s Turf Builder triple action built for seeding”. Long name, great product that uses Mesotrione to fight weeds. Did you even watch the video?

[@slimdude2011]

@@suburbanacreage I've never heard of putting weed control on newly planted grass seeds, that hasn't germinated yet. There are no weeds anyway, because it's only seeds. After all the hassle of what you had to go through to pre-germinate, I bet you won't do that again! You will save time and money.

[@jasonfournier]

Dumb comment. You didn't watch the video very closely. Pre-germinating can also save many days of watering, saving time and money. It establishes much quicker, before your existing lawn is overgrown.

[@jasonfournier]

@@slimdude2011 You aren't very educated then. Putting down tenacity is very common. Other weeds will pop up that already exist in the lawn because of all the watering, fertilizer, and bare soil.