- Hi, it's Parris from Epic Review Guys,
and I'm following up on my "As Seen on TV"
Grass Seed Comparison.
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Earlier this summer, I marked off
three spots in my backyard that were getting pretty bare
and could use some extra grass seed,
and I went to the store,
to the As Seen on TV section, and I got
the Hydro Mousse Liquid Lawn, tried that for the first time,
Grassology, this is the second year in a row
that I've tried this, and the Grass Shot,
another As Seen on TV product.
Put them on the three sections of lawn,
watered them the same, treated them the same,
let me show you how it turned out.
One month later on the Grassology section.
Still some small grass growth
from the Grassology that has managed to survive.
Filled in some of the spots.
Black spots over here, see almost no growth.
So it was picky, but it did work
in a few of the spots.
This is one month later,
looking for any sign
if there was ever any grass growing here.
I'm really not finding it.
This is where I sprayed out that entire container
of grass seed.
Just not seeing anything.
And here's the last one.
You can see a little bit
of growth
in some spots,
not really enough to fill in,
but at least this one did give us
something to work with.
Now that video was from after one month
of putting the seed down.
The weather was a little unusual here,
at least for how it's been lately,
had a lot of heavy rain, and what I think happened
is the Grassology seed, when I sprinkled that out,
it actually got down onto the soil
and put in some roots, but these foaming grass seeds,
which look like the ones that you see
the highway department use on the side of the highway,
so you figure that has to be a good system.
I think because it wasn't completely bare soil
that it tended to cling on to twigs and leaves
and blades of grass, and not that much
actually was sticking on to the ground,
so when it rained next, and it rained several inches,
it basically washed the seeds away
because they germinated but then
they weren't right there on the ground
to get the roots into the soil.
So, I think for these to work
you need completely bare ground.
So a month after planting these three grass seeds,
it was the section that I planted with Grassology
that really is the only one that showed
there was still some young grass growing there.
Several months later, however, the same thing
happened in 2014, with the Grassology seed,
grew well at first, but then when the really serious
heat of summer took over and I wasn't out there
watering it every day, it pretty much all died,
and that's what happened this year as well.
It's September right now, and if I go out there
and look in the area where these three seeds
were planted, you wouldn't be able to tell
that I had ever done anything there,
compared to just a regular patch
of backyard that hadn't had any seed
at all put on it.
My conclusion at the end of this summer
of having a pretty bare patch backyard
is the same as the end of 2014, go to your local nursery
or home improvement store, ask them about
local grass seed for your area,
and you have to make a serious commitment
of going on months of watering,
if you really want the grass roots
to get in deep enough so that it will last
into the next year and through the next summer.
Otherwise, you can get a little bit
of temporary green with this,
and with this, whatever which one,
one of them has this green chemical stuff
that you mix in.
It makes the ground look greener
until the rain washes it away.
I'll have links to all three of these products
in the description box down below this video
in case you want to check them out further online.
Who knows, maybe next year
they'll actually have a better product.
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