Growtrax Biodegradable Grass Seed Mat, Year Round Green - 50 Sq Ft Quick Fix Roll - Growing Solution for Lawns, Dog Patches and Shade - Just Roll Water & Grow -Not Fake or Artificial Grass

I didn't have high expectations about a grow mat but this turned out to be a great investment. So much so that I just bought two more rolls directly through GrowTrax's website. Admittedly, I was worried it wasn't going to work after about a 1.5 weeks of nothing, but we've had a lot of storms the last few weeks and that did the trick! We have lots of sturdy, grass/plant growth now. I recommend making sure you start with a flat surface, so rake the soil in that area first and lay down some top soil as needed. Then do a lot of watering the first couple of days because the mat can dry out easily. I could see some of the seeds and the mat itself blowing away if not watered well (i used biodegradable stakes too because I have dogs who were running around on it and that worked well too.)

This is poor quality stuff as compared to going to a garden store. You lay it down and gently water and the coating is gone. You may as well use seed and tissue paper! Don’t waste your time as seed is much easier to put down with a little peat. This makes a muddy mess

I was surprised at how thin this mat really was. I followed the directions and you can see it's prepped and ready to hopefully grow grass in my yard. It is very delicate as just touching the mat when it's wet rips it. After reading the other reviews, I'm glad I purchased netting to put on top of it to hold it down. It's going to rain soon so I'm hoping the rain doesn't destroy the mat as it hits it and so far the squirrels haven't gotten into it either. I will post an update on how it all works out. *UPDATE -- look how well it grew!! Very happy with this product. You do need to water it well, which I did twice a day to keep the mat wet. I recommend this product.

Its takes a lot longer than three weeks to grow grass, even then its very thin not lush as advertised. Not sure how it will work in warn or even hot weather as advertised.

I know it’s not easy to see but this product is awesome. This is the 9th day it’s been down!!! Started seeing grass on day 7. Followed the instructions implicitly. Kept wet three times per day. Prepped the site with inches of top soil after digging up entire area and I think that’s critical. Note: it will not work over existing grass and weeds no matter the height and they pointed that out. The product MUST directly touch the ground. Existing ground cover prevents that.I must add that I was very lucky with the weather as we had moderately hot, overcast daytime temps and cool evenings. Plus some rain so conditions were pristine.Easy to install and as you can see it worked for us. I’m so impressed! Great stuff!!!

I covered my whole yard in this stuff based upon a successful trial with a smaller area. The main thing to know is that if you are in a windy area, you are going to be babysitting and repositioning this stuff daily until it sprouts. Any serious wind and it becomes a kite and blows all over. If you are doing what you are supposed to be doing and keeping it damp, you then have to be extremely careful to get it back in position without destroying it, as it basically loses all structural integrity when it is wet, and walking on it will also destroy or put holes in it if the underlying soil is soft, so it is really a challenge to keep it in position. Overall, to do it again, and even now as I stare at my rolls which overnight were blown all over the yard - about 2000 sqft or over 700 dollars of material - I would just cover it all in a half inch of topsoil. This will keep birds from eating it, make it germinate and grow more quickly, and retain water a bit better so it would not require multiple waterings per day to stay damp. If you cover it with a bit of dirt, and keep it moist, you will have excellent results. Otherwise, just buy some sod and be done with it. I mean, it is really a sort of disaster when you wake up at 5am and look at your yard and have a bunch of stuff to do before work and you realize that you have to get out there and do an hour of grass seed roll repositioning and rehabilitation or your $3000 lawn project is going to look like hammered feces. These people really did not think through what any sort of wind at all will do to an installation without some sort of soil holding it down. Kind of a major oversight. I support US businesses and this is made in Santa Barbara, but come ON guys! You are seriously sinking my battleship over here. Get with the program and tell people how to make this stuff work. Topsoil, topsoil, topsoil. The turf is really nice once it gets going, but this is ridiculous.

I read many of the reviews and with so much positive and of course some negative, I decided to give it a try. I laid multiple strips over bare dirt. I watered regularly and hoped for the best. After about 4 weeks there was absolutely no change. I wondered if there were any seeds in the mat. I did not bother to shred it to find out. I just gave up. Perhaps i did something wrong but simply do not know. I have most of the roll remaining as I was testing in on about 10 square feet of area.It is about a year since I wrote the above review. I decided to give this product another chance so I cleared and prepared about a 3 foot square area. I made sure it was well watered. Now after about 2-3 months you can see the results in the pictures. While there is some grass growth this time, most of the area shows no growth or vey sparse growth.The pictures are not great as there are a lot of pine needles over the grass due to some strong wind. However, I think you can get the idea. I loved the potential of this product but found it pretty useless. As an experiment, I seeded another section of the lawn with traditional seed and watered in the same way. While I did not attach a picture that area shows lush lawn growth.Bottom line, for me, this product simply did not live up to expectations.

Bought this to grow grass after a pool removal, I was skeptical but it’s been almost 2 weeks & I have a new lawn growing. Inust rolled it out & watered it daily & did it without having to spend a ton of money on dirt deliveries & back breaking shoveling. I just wish the rolls were bigger.