Choosing the right seed is key to a successful hydroseeding project. Different sites and applications require different seed types, from residential lawns to commercial uses such as erosion control and highway projects.
Below is an overview of some of our most popular seed options, designed to help you select the best variety for your project. We only recommend seeds that we have personally grown in pots. While viewing images of different grasses is helpful, we can often bring you one of our sample pots for you to see and touch.
If you are unsure or need help our team is available to provide recommendations based on your specific needs.
Common Bermuda
Most affordable, spreads aggresively and very drought tolerant
Common bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) is a highly durable, warm-season perennial grass, commonly used for lawns, pastures, and erosion control due to its excellent heat/drought tolerance and low-cost, fast establishment from seed. It forms dense turf via stolons and rhizomes, thrives in full sun, and tolerates heavy traffic, though it requires frequent mowing and high nitrogen fertilizer to maintain quality.
Key Characteristics and Info
- Appearance: Light- to dark-green, medium-textured blades with a ring of white hairs at the base; produces visible seedheads.
- Growth Habit: Spreads aggressively via above-ground runners (stolons) and below-ground stems (rhizomes).
- Durability: High wear tolerance makes it ideal for sports fields and high-traffic areas.
- Climate & Soil: Thrives in hot, dry climates; adapts to a wide range of soils but prefers well-drained sites.
- Maintenance: Needs full sun (low shade tolerance). Mowing height should generally be 1/2″ to 1-1/2″.
- Establishment: Easily established from seed (hulled for fast growth, unhulled for better hardiness) or sprigs.
Maya Bermuda
Most popular for residential lawns. Comparable to Tiffway 419
Maya Bermuda grass is a high-quality, warm-season turfgrass known for its dark green color, dense, carpet-like texture, and excellent performance in full sun, offering superior traffic tolerance, fast recovery, and good cold hardiness for its type, making it ideal for lawns, parks, and sports fields. It’s a turf-type variety that establishes quickly from seed and holds up well in heat and drought.
Key Characteristics:
- Color & Texture: Deep, dark green with a fine blade, creating a dense, soft feel.
- Establishment: Fast germination and establishment from seed, especially with coated seed.
- Traffic & Wear: Highly tolerant of heavy foot traffic and recovers quickly.
- Heat & Drought: Excellent resistance to heat and drought.
- Cold Tolerance: Surprisingly good cold hardiness for a Bermuda grass, surviving winters further north (like Virginia).
- Disease Resistance: Good resistance to common lawn diseases and weeds.
- Mowing: Adapts well to low mowing heights (1-2 inches) but benefits from slightly taller mowing in extreme heat for better drought tolerance.
- Uses: Lawns, parks, golf courses, athletic fields, commercial properties.
Performance:
- It’s a top-rated variety from the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program (NTEP) trials.
- Features excellent spring green-up and good fall color retention.
In essence, Maya provides a premium, low-maintenance, and durable lawn solution for warm-season climates, offering a luxurious look with robust performance.
70% Buffalo 30% Blue Grama
Lower maintenance with less water, fertilizer and mowing. While slower to germinate and spread, it maintains the native look many customers appreciate. The buffalo grass is the shorter grass you see here, and the blue grama is taller.
Buffalo grass and blue grama mix creates a beautiful, dense, low-maintenance turf for hot, dry areas, combining buffalo grass’s spreading habit with blue grama’s faster germination and finer texture for increased density and resilience, requiring minimal water, fertilizer, and mowing, and tolerating moderate traffic and poor soils. This warm-season native blend mimics the shortgrass prairie, offering a soft, uniform green carpet that greens up late and turns straw-colored in fall, perfect for xeriscaping.
Key Characteristics:
- Appearance: Fine-bladed, dense, uniform, with blue-green to light green color, creating a soft, attractive lawn.
- Performance: Extremely drought-tolerant, heat-tolerant, and requires very little water.
- Growth Habit: Warm-season perennials that spread by runners (buffalograss) and form dense sods, with blue grama acting as a nurse grass for better coverage.
- Maintenance: Low-input; needs infrequent mowing and minimal fertilizer.
- Soil & Site: Thrives in hot, sunny, dry conditions and various soil types, especially sandy soils, but struggles in shade.
- Seasonal Color: Greens up late in spring and turns golden/straw-colored after the first frost.
Benefits:
- Reduced Resources: Saves time and water compared to traditional lawns.
- Enhanced Density: The combination creates a thicker, more resilient turf.
- Natural Aesthetic: Provides a lush, native prairie look.
- Erosion Control: Excellent for stabilizing soil.
Zenith Zoysia
Recommended for smaller yards and for people with a lot of patience. Slow to germinate
Superior, Low Maintenance Lawn
Dark green color and medium fine leaf produces a superior lawn or golf course fairway, tee or rough. Shade tolerance and dense growth habit allows means this lawn grass is widely adaptable to virtually any place in the landscape with some sun or light shade exposure.
Zenith Zoysia is the first synthetic cross zoysiagrass and the result of years of research. First introduced in 1990, this unique zoysiagrass sod is also available in seed form.
Zenith Zoysia provides a dark-green, medium-textured turf for use in home lawns, commercial landscapes, golf courses, sports fields and roadsides from Miami to Baltimore and west to Kansas City and beyond.
- Best adapted turf for transition zone
- Low water requirement
- Low nutrition requirement
- Winter hardy
- Less frequent mowing required – from 1 to 2 inches – with either reel or rotary mowers
- Dense turf resists weeds
Characteristic Rating
- Texture Intermediate
- Shade Tolerance Good
- Soil Preference Clay / Loam
- Fertility Requirement Moderate
- Peak Mowing Requirement 7 to 10 days
- Care Required Moderate
- Method of Propagation Seed / Sod
The Zoysia seed must be planted when the ground temperature is 67 degrees or higher. This is a very slow germinating seed and may take between 1 and 2 months to germinate.
Sol Mix
This is an affordable option for someone looking for native grass, but wants to be able to mow it from time to time. With six seed varieties this is a great alternative to the Buffalo/Blue Grama mix.
Blue Grama 50%
Hooded Windmillgrass (Burnet Germplasm) 14%
Sand Dropseed 12%
Sideoats Grama 12%
Buffalograss 11%
Curly Mesquite 1%
Texas Native Pasture Mix
Great option for an affordable and no maintenance grass. With 27 different seed varieties it will certainly have what you need. This seed mix is designed to grow naturally without mowing.
Blue Grama 9.00%
Indiangrass 9.00%
Little Bluestem 9.00%
Switchgrass (Blackwell) 9.00%
Blackeyed Susan 5.00%
Illinois Bundleflower (Sabine) 5.00%
Plains Coreopsis 5.00%
Purple Prairie Clover 4.00%
White Prairie Clover 4.00%
Big Bluestem (Kaw) 3.00%
Canada Wildrye 3.00%
Green Sprangletop (Van Horn) 3.00%
Hooded Windmillgrass (Burnett Germplasm) 3.00%
Indian Blanket 3.00%
Partridge Pea 3.00%
Plains Bristlegrass 3.00%
Sideoats Grama 3.00%
Silver Bluestem (Santiago Germplasm) 3.00%
Virginia Wildrye 3.00%
Western Wheatgrass 3.00%
Sand Dropseed 2.00%
Arizona Cottontop 1.00%
Awnless Bushsunflower (Plateau) 1.00%
Buffalograss (Texoka) 1.00%
Inland Sea Oats 1.00%
Purpletop 1.00%
Sand Lovegrass 1.00%
