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No Mow Lawn Grass Seed
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Our No Mow Grass Seed Mix is the solution for a low-maintenance drought tolerant lawn. This is a cool season grass mix, featuring six dwarf fine fescue grasses - Jamestown Chewing Fescue, Quatro Sheep Fescue, Sea Link Slender Fescue, Sword Fescue, Aurora Fescue, and Kent Creeping Fescue.
This mix of grasses has been formulated to create a lawn with deep fibrous roots; this helps to increase its durability in high traffic areas. Dense, deep roots also create a drought tolerant lawn; No Mow turf typically only needs about 4” of rain per month, requiring little additional irrigation, except during dry spells without summer rains. Left un-mowed, the grass blades create a wonderfully soft, swirling pattern. For a more manicured look, it can be cut once every four to six weeks to a height of 3" to 4". This grass mix can tolerate shade; in summer or anytime the average temperature is above 80°F, it should be kept at 3″ or taller to prevent the ends from rusting or burning.
This mix is suited for a wide range of the United States and is best for regions in the cooler average-rainfall areas of the upper Midwest, northeastern US, and higher elevations of the Intermountain West (See recommended planting area map in product photos). In the Western US, this cool season grass is better suited for use at elevations above 6,000-7,000 feet, compared to warm season native grasses (like Blue Grama and Buffalo Grass). No Mow is best sown in March through early May, or late August through September. This grass grows best at and around 70°F.
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Overall rating: 4.5882354 / 5 from 17 reviews.
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Beautiful!!!
"I Lin south law Tahoe at over 6,000 feet. Summers are short and the weather quickly goes from cold to hot says when summer comes. Summers are dry and direct UV is intense on plants. The No Mow is thriving in sections where I amended the broken down granite with soil/compost and installed irrigation. It’s so soft and romantic the way it grows. It does get dry in section that are less shaded. I’ve had many local friends ask me for the link."
I am buying this product again.
"Living in high desert grass needed bit more watering but no mowing. I did feed it and kept grass deep beautiful green."
Growing in SoCal
"Sweepstakes #sweepstakes this was an affordable solution to cover a large area quickly. The problem is the weeds grow in with the grass. For SoCal this does better in our winter. It's ok in summer in the shade but full sun areas will die out."
This stuff is like an art installation
"I hate mowing so I love this grass, so I tore up my lawn and use this for borders, but it does require clipping if you don't want it to self seed everywhere. I have it in another area with chairs and it swirls around everything. Provides lovely movement in my cottage garden. The dog also loves jumping in and out of it. #sweepstakes"
Finally the right turf seed
"I'm excited to get this grass growing. It's the best tired mix I've found for my needs. #sweepstakes"
Getting excellent results
"We live in northern Michigan and never put in a lawn as we didn't want the upkeep of grass. We learned about No Mow from a neighbor and watched their lawn for a couple years to see if we liked the product. Their No Mow looks great, so we planted our front yard. The prep work and application was easy. We have done all the work ourselves. The grass started sprouting within a week and has continued to fill in over the past two months. We have already purchased the seed needed to plant our backyard then year. I think we are going to love the new look to our yard."
This grass converted the lawn-haters
"We needed a low maintenance, hardy green area for our nonprofit rescue's landscaping in Manitou Springs CO. A lawn seemed a good choice if we could find a good substitute for Western-inappropriate bluegrass. Scheduling locked us into summer seeding and though it was hot, the seeds came up well by fall. The lawn looked decent over the winter with some bare patches we re-seeded in spring. A year later, it's filled out nicely and is doing exactly what we wanted: providing an easily maintained, green and waterwise respite for all our visitors, even those who insist on sampling it."
Better than ""traditional"" options
"As other reviews state, this grass seed does grow a bit patchy at first. Once it gets going, though, it can grow fast and tall. At a certain point, it curves down creating swirling waves, which I find attractive. We do mow it because there are still some weeds that want to re-seed, but I think once I weed a little better I won't need to mow. In the first year, it didn't really go into dormancy, and interestingly stayed pretty green. (Zone 5, Colorado Springs) it rained a lot this July, so I haven't needed to water it much this summer at all. I'm happy with it overall, though it doesn't seem to tolerate dog urine at all and I'm trying to get my dog trained to do her business in a different part of the yard to prevent having to re-seed."
My journey with No Mow
"This was my first time growing a lawn and it's a relatively small, weedy, patch (about 500sf) in the backyard, but was interested in No Mow for the low maintenance and water wise attributes. I seeded in late March after weeding and tilling in a decent amount of compost for good measure. The grass came up in about 3-4 weeks, a little longer than expected, so I had issues with weed competition, but got most of them out by hand (had to reseed to fill in the holes I created weeding). This process took pretty much all summer, weeding and reseeding. The grass is extremely clumpy, each seedling is it's own mound and when they eventually grow together they create the ""lawn"" look. I actually had to mow a number of times to uncover the bare spots (the grass gets so long it can fall over and cover bare ground or other seedlings). My advice is to keep mowing until you have even clump coverage (clumps are about 5"" wide). The grass looks good mowed or left to grow. It's certainly not going to give you a manicured look, but I like natural appearance and fits our ""wild garden"" vibe. The grass is extremely green and I watered 1 once a week for about an hour during the summer. It's December now and still green (been watering once a month since September). Fairly durable too, my dog runs around and tears into it but it hasn't lost its vigor - although you can tell it needs a break. It was quite a journey and excited to see how it does 1+ years in. I'd recommend it, but it may require a little more attention at first. Fyi - I had to rake the grass up and mow with a string trimmer to get it all even, otherwise it falls over and you'd run right over without cutting with a push mower."
Going nuts in all of the places I don't want!
"I have purchased many pounds of this seed to cover at least 0. 25 acres worth of bare land. I do a few seedings a year and began in August in a Zone 4 arid mountain climate (that really can behave like Zone 3 since we can still have snow on the ground in June). I have to say. . . where this seed WANTS to grow it goes nuts! Unfortunately, the places it seems to do best are the places I DON'T want it to grow, like in my dry river beds and along my road-base walkway! Where I DO want it to grow, I wind up doing a few plantings a season and a final one just before the snow in October. It is slow to fill in nicely in these areas and is growing in patches. I have not yet mowed it (been growing it for 2 seasons now) because I want the seeds from the taller blade to help fill things in. The blade themselves in the good places and those with seed pods can get pretty tall: more than a foot in places! But it is pleasant looking and we do love it. I just wish it would fill in faster!"