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Selecting the Right Grass Seed

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Before applying seed, it's crucial to select the right type. Stanley visits a hardware store and advises choosing perennial grass seed over annual. Perennial seeds establish long-term grass, while annuals provide temporary growth. He also recommends examining the ingredient list on seed bags rather than focusing solely on packaging. Comparing two Pennington bags, he finds a 40lb 'Contractors Mix' for $69.99 and a 25lb 'Sun & Shade Mix' for $74.99. The 'Sun & Shade Mix' is more expensive but contains higher-quality grass types like Vert Tall Fescue, Legato Perennial Ryegrass, and Rebel Tall Fescue, making it a better value for long-term lawn health despite the higher upfront cost per pound.

Goal: Choose high-quality perennial grass seed suitable for the specific lawn conditions.

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program not all grass seed is created equal and I'm at a big box store and we're going to go inside and we're going to show you what to look for when you're you're buying and picking out your grass seed for your location when you're shopping for grass seed make sure you're able to get a perennial and not an annual an annual will typically be a lot cheaper than a perennial and also just look for your packaging a lot of times they'll charge more for fancy your packaging here's where it gets interesting we have a 40 lb bag of contractor mixed grass seed for $69.99 and we have a 25 lb bag of sun and shade mix grass seed made by the same company for $5 more now I'm getting 15 lb less seed and I'm paying $5 more what's the difference this is where you look at your ingredient list just like you look at what's in your soup you're going to look at what's in your grass seat I have I have Jessup T Fescue BT tall fescue golf annual Ry grass and minute minute map so does this bag have better grass seed well looks like I got BT tall fescue Legato perennial Ry grass and rebel tall rescue back at the site Zach was supposed to be smoothing out the ground so we could go to work with the seed let's see how that went the way that one is compared to your big one all the you got to do this and that you got about need about three hands in order to operate it and going backwards we all know you operate like this all the time anyway I thought would that would feel natural to you well yeah trying to use the control push the push the all-wheel drive and steer it and try and not smash into anything fair enough right here this is where we park all the trailers so we're going to give it a shot with no seed let's just see it let's put her on the

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