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Combat Extreme™ Northern Zone

This tall fescue and Kentucky Bluegrass seed mix produces fine to medium leaf blades forming a dense turf. It does extremely well in full sun or partial shade in USDA Zones 4 - 5. It is available in 4 different sizes to suit your gardening needs.
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Excellent Color
Our fescue grass seed mix boasts an excellent rich green color, even through winter’s low temperatures. This premium blend ensures a lush, uniform appearance that stands out. Whether you're rejuvenating a tired lawn or starting fresh, our grass's rich, enduring color will transform your outdoor space into a picturesque landscape, providing year-round visual appeal.
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Self-Repairing
Combat Extreme fescue grass seed shade mix is designed to be self-repairing, making lawn maintenance easier and more efficient. Traditional tall fescue grass clum, leaving bare spots and an uneven lawn prone to unwanted plants. Our grass seeds uniquely fills these gaps through aggressive tillering, knits the lawn grass together and quickly fills in damaged or open spots with new shoots of grass.
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Strong, Deep Root System
The strong, deep root system of our Northern Zone fescue grass seeds is a testament to its resilience and durability. This robust root network allows the grass to access nutrients and water more effectively, ensuring a healthy lawn even in challenging conditions. The deep roots also enhance drought tolerance and improve soil structure, providing a stable foundation for a thriving, long-lasting lawn.
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Rapid Germination
Our Combat Extreme Northern Zone fescue grass seed mix is renowned for its rapid germination, making it the fastest growing grass seed. This fast-acting seed blend allows you to see results in a short period, transforming bare soil into a green, lush landscape swiftly. The rapid germination process reduces the time seeds have to establish resulting in a dense, healthy lawn much sooner than other seed mixes.
Outsidepride Northern Zone fescue grass seed mix is designed to endure the harshest winter conditions. This blend excels in winter survival, ensuring your lawn remains vibrant and healthy even during the coldest months. It provides an early spring green-up, allowing your lawn to bounce back quickly as temperatures rise. Enjoy year-round beauty with our fescue mix, which maintains its thick appearance throughout the seasons. Additionally, this blend is water-efficient, helping you conserve water while keeping your lawn green and thriving.
Our Combat Extreme fescue grass seed mix combines 90% turf-type fescue and 10% Kentucky bluegrass by weight, offering a blend of premium performers for your lawn. By seed count, this is nearly a 50/50 blend. It will contain 2 out of the 5 turf type fescues (Chanelle, Roman, Brute, Barbarian or Annihilator) and Midnight or Blue Chip Kentucky Bluegrass seeds. Ideal for those seeking the best grass seed for northern lawns, this blend is perfect for areas needing a hardy, fast-growing solution. Enhance your lawn's performance and beauty with our superior grass seed mix, ideal for creating a robust and picturesque landscape.
Prepare your lawn for winter with our Combat Extreme Northern Zone fescue grass seed mix. For optimal growth, use a seeding rate of 240 - 320 lbs per acre for broadcast seeding while 120 - 160 lbs per acre for broadcast overseeding and plant the seeds at a depth of 1/4 to 1/2 inch. Keep the soil consistently moist until the seeds germinate, typically within 7-21 days, and wait until the grass reaches 3-4 inches high before mowing. Our grass seed mix promotes healthy, winter-ready lawns that thrive year-round.
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Combat Extreme™ Northern Zone - This tall fescue and Kentucky Bluegrass mix produces fine to medium leaf blades which allows a dense turf to form. This grass seed mix uses lower-growing cultivars which means that mowing requirements and clipping yields can be reduced up to 30 percent. Combat Extreme™ Northern Zone grass seed establishes rapidly when soil temperatures are above 55 degrees Fahrenheit. The varieties of turf type fescue grass were selected due to their ability to withstand hot summer temperatures as well as cold and harsh winters in USDA Zones 4 - 5. Combat Extreme™ Northern Zone grass seed has improved germination which allows it to establish more quickly than other varieties and its lower growth habit significantly reduces the amount of top growth. It does extremely well in full sun or partial shade in USDA Zones 4 - 5. Combat Extreme™ Northern Zone grass has the addition of Kentucky Bluegrass for extra cold tolerance and turf density. Combat Extreme™ Northern Zone grass seed an excellent choice for professional or home use.


Three Combat Blends To Optimize Varieties:

Each Combat Extreme mixture will perform well outside of the given zone. For example, there is no reason you could not use Combat Extreme Transition Zone in USDA Zone 8 or Combat Extreme Northern Zone in USDA 6. These USDA Zones are given as optimal guidelines, but not as fixed rules.Combat Extreme grass seed is one of the few tall fescue grass lawn seed blends available that is 100% weed free!

Seed size is much larger for turf fescue than Kentucky Bluegrass; therefore, by weight this is a 90%/10% fescue/bluegrass blend, but by seed count it is a pretty equal blend.

Planting Instructions

Unlike other turf type tall fescue grass seeds, Combat Extreme has the ability to repair itself. Traditional tall fescue grass will clump together, not filling in the bare spots and producing an uneven lawn. With bare spots, weeds are more apt to take over the lawn. What makes Combat Extreme™ Northern Zone grass seed unique is its ability to fill in these open areas with through aggressive tillering.

Another great feature of Kentucky bluegrass is its extreme cold tolerance. That is why we have added it to our regular Combat Extreme blend for the USDA Zones 4-5 where cold tolerance can be of the utmost importance. Bluegrass blends well with turf type fescue and makes it softer in appearance and more dense. Midnight Kentucky bluegrass was also developed with quick establishment in mind. It is wear tolerant and repairs itself by rhizomes and tillering improving its turf density.

Characteristics of Combat Extreme™ Northern Zone

Self-repairing turf
  • Fills in open areas in the lawn by means of tillering
  • Knits the lawn grass together
  • Quickly fills in damaged or open spots with new shoots of grass
Strong, deep root system
  • Ability to draw its moisture from a deep profile
  • Excellent drought and heat tolerant with less irrigation
  • Excellent in the transition zone climate
Produces a thick even lawn grass
  • Ability to repair itself – repairs open areas within a lawn
  • Strong tillering fills in and keeps grass thick
Excellent color and disease resistant
  • Withstands stressful weather conditions
  • Holds its rich green color, even through winter’s low temperatures
Rapid germination and quick spring green-up
  • Quickly establishing grass seed
  • Early spring green-up – have a greener lawn earlier in the spring then other grass seeds
Higher value for the home owner than conventional tall fescue grass seed
  • Ordinary tall fescue grass seeds require maintenance from over-seeding, weed problems, and clumps. Combat Extreme™ Cold Climate grass seed results in less over-seeding, fewer weed problems and no "wide-leafed ugly clumps" of tall fescue plants in open areas.


 

Mixing varieties together that have top performance on some of the desired characteristics allows the lawn to adapt itself to various conditions. In the shady areas, the grass seed varieties with good shade tolerance will prevail, in the high traffic areas the best wear tolerant grass seed varieties will prevail, etc. The result is a beautiful lawn grass everywhere, from the same grass seed blend.

Combat Extreme™ grass seed sets a new standard for home lawns. Not only is the Combat Extreme™ Northern Zone grass seed a blend of top performing seed varieties, now it has the ability to repair itself through outstanding tillering characteristics as well as requiring less water and fertilizer. That is why Combat Extreme™ Northern Zone grass seed is the only seed you’ll ever need! In our opinion, this is the best grass that we carry (for durability and hardiness) and the best tall fescue and bluegrass mix on the market today!

Seeding Rate & Planting Time

  • New turf: Sow 6 - 8 pounds Combat grass seed per 1,000 square feet or 240 - 320 lbs/acre for broadcast seeding
  • Over-seeding: Sow 3 - 4 pounds Combat Extreme™ cold climate grass seed per 1,000 square feet or 120 - 160 lbs per acre for broadcast over-seeding
  • Plant cold climate grass seed when soil temperature reaches 55 degrees in spring up until a minimum of 6 weeks before frost in fall