Seed Products

"Players Best"

Player’s Best is an advanced Blue Grass based seed mix designed for home lawns, athletic fields and parks. This seed mix produces a lush dark green lawn that prospers with greatly reduced inputs.

Player’s Best utilizes Micro-Clover,™ this tiny legume fulfills the major turf grass nutrient requirement through the absorption of atmospheric nitrogen thus minimizing the need for nitrogen fertilizers applied to the soil. The slow steady nitrogen from evenly distributed Micro-Clover™ keeps the turf fed and protected even in hot, dry weather. This grass seed mix also contains SPF 30 a hybrid bluegrass that is crossed with Texas Bluegrass, a heat and drought tolerant native grass from the Southwest prairie. Unlike Kentucky bluegrass, hybrid bluegrass grows actively in mid-summer with minimal or no irrigation, reduced watering avoids Summer Patch and Pythium diseases. Hybrid bluegrass is genetically tolerant of both diseases

Player’s Best utilizes a unique mix of genetic traits that replace nitrogen fertilizers, heavy irrigation, is tolerant of hot dry summer weather, and creates new growth to maintain excellent turf density despite extreme wear.

Seeding Rate:  5 Lbs. / 1,000 Sq. Ft.

Seeding Window:  April – June 15; August 15 – November 1

Uses:  Home Lawns, Parks and Athletic Fields

Germination:  Under Ideal conditions  7-14 days

Noticeable change: 14-28 days

"Natural Perfection"

Ideal mix for Conservation Areas, Dam Face establishment, low maintenance lawns, windswept coastal expanses, and naturalized golf course roughs. At low rates Natural Perfection works well as a grass base for wildflowers, or legumes to be added from plugs or seed in year 2-3 upon successful weed suppression.

Features: Natural Perfection is the lowest growing grass mix available; very fine textured with a wispy look that has gained broad acceptance, and tolerant of extreme drought, Natural Perfection can grow in low fertility/low PH soils. Fertilizer and water will improve the vigor and overall appearance of Natural Perfection. However when the area produces a layer of organic matter in year 2-3 these species can survive with NO FERTILIZER/NO WATER and one MOWING/YEAR in sandy soils.

"Harmony"

The Cape Cod Lawn Mix includes the Cape Cod native grass, Pilgrim Coastal Hairgrass (Deschampsia flexuosa).  Harmony is the ideal mix for low maintenance lawns and windswept coastal expanses.   The lowest growing lawn mix available; fine textured with a wispy look if left un-mowed. Extremely drought tolerant and requires no fertilizer once established.

 The only lawn mix on the market that contains a true native grass. Pilgrim Hairgrass (Deschampsia flexuosa) comes from collections in Plymouth and Barnstable Counties, MA

Seeding Rate: Lawn 4-6 Lbs. / 1,000 Sq. Ft.

Naturalized Areas and Meadows 2-3 Lbs. / 1,000 Sq. Ft.

Seeding Window:  April – June 15; August 15 – October 15

Dormant Seeding: December 10 – February 1

Germination: Under ideal conditions  7-14 days

Noticeable Growth:  14-28 days

Sweet Savannah Mixture

“Sweet Savanna Mixture”

A Coastal Sand Plain Mixture

INGREDIENTS: “PILGRIM”, Coastal/Wavy Hair Grass (Cape Cod Collection), Little Bluestem (Long Island or CT Ecotype), Big Bluestem (Long Island or CT Ecotype), Upland Bent Grass, Blue X Hard Fescue, Blue Fescue, Swan Sedge

 AREAS of ADAPTION: Areas of Full Sun/ Partial Shade. In Soils that are Dry & Droughty, Low PH, and Low Fertility. Areas where Mowing Maintenance can be One or Two Cuttings/year (only) without Issue.

 USES: 

Grassing of “buffer zones” near fresh and salt water that fall under low

-input regulatory protocols. Preservation of natural areas utilizing adapted grass species following disturbance from construction or infrastructure adjacent to back side dunes and pitch pine/scrub oak woodlands. Sweet Savanna can act as a more distant sightline as residential properties or golf courses back up to ocean/bay borders or tree-lines in contrast to more formal foundation landscape or primary play areas on coastal courses. Municipal conservation lands are now in constant increase through property tax initiatives. Mostly forested,

the modest amount of open conservation areas require grass mixtures such as “Sweet Savanna” that can thrive throughout all three seasons in sandy conditions to avoid loss of important sand plain areas to pioneering tree species such as scrub oak and pitch pine. Only mixes containing warm and cool season grasses, can accomplish such seasonal vigor whereby certain species grow in cool soil and air in spring and others in hot dry summer conditions when cool-season species become dormant until fall and a return of cool and moist conditions. Note: not recommended for regularly mowed lawns

FEATURES: Sweet Savanna is formulated for maximum grass density in a once or twice/year mowing regime. A cutting height of 5-8inches will stimulate crown stolons without harm to warm-season species that are less adapted to aggressive, close mowing.

With proper maintenance protocols and the genetic breadth of “Sweet Savanna” open gr asslands have a better chance offending off invasive weed infestation and establishment of often unwanted woody species such as scrub oak. Wildflowers can be added in year 2-3.

COATED SEED: This mix is available coated for easy spreading with broadcast or drill seeders. The increased weight and density eliminatesthe ongoing challenge of fluffy bluestem seeds that lack sufficient gravity for free-flow in conical hoppers utilized in the design of either tractor mounted or hand/push broadcast equipment.

FERTLIZER: IS necessary and important during establishment period of the first 6-15 months. While fertilizer and water improve the vigor and overall appearance of Sweet Savanna, once the area produces a layer of organic matter in year 2-3these species can survive with NO

 FERTILIZER/NO WATER and one MOWING/YEAR  in sandy soils. Excess fertility or applied ground limestone only stimulates establishment of invasive weeds. The use of adapted native species has somewhat neutralized the long-standing concerns about low-fertility sands and the subsequent necessity of various composted waste to improve organic matter. Invasive weeds feeding off organic amendments have now frequently become the major impediment to successful vegetation on our highly infertile sandy and gravelly soils.

 SEEDING RATE(S): Raw Seed- .5-.75 #/1,000 sq.ft.Coated Seed .6-.9#/1,000 sq.ft.

"Stabilizer"