Looking for a fabulous lawn - look no further than McDonald Premium Grass Seed. This seed mixture is the perfect blend for Hampton Roads’ lawns and well suited to this area.
The improved grass seed varieties used our seed mixture are more drought tolerant, disease and insect resistant and naturally darker green in color than any other turf grasses, which have previously been available. This seed has been tested and is a recommend seed blend by Virginia Tech.
The McDonald Premium Grass Seed Mixture is composed of elite turf-type tall fescue grasses including Kentucky bluegrasses and perennial ryegrasses. Some of these varieties possess an invisible waxy cuticle coating, much like the wax on an apple, which causes it to shine when you polish it on your sleeve. This waxy cuticle preserves the moisture in the leaf by lowering the evapo-transpiration rate of these grasses, making them more drought tolerant than any other grass seed varieties on the market today. Most of these grass seed mixtures also contain beneficial endophytes.
These are naturally-occurring organisms that live off the grass plant host. They produce defensive chemicals called alkaloids, which are toxic to many insects, such as, chinch bugs, sod webworms, cutworms, aphids, chafers and Japanese beetles. Endophytes are all natural and do not diminish over time. Endophytes reduce the need for pesticide treatments on your lawn.
The fall grass kit contains one 25-pound bag of grass seed. The rule of thumb is 6-7 pounds per 1000 square feet for a new lawn or bare ground and 3-4 pounds per 1000 square feet for an established lawn. It also contains two 25-pound bags of Fall Fertilizer.