We stock a wide assortment of lawn seed types designed to meet a variety of needs. So if you need a pound or two to re-plant some bare spots, or a dozen 25-pound bags to plant a new yard, stop in or give us a call. We also have starter fertilizers and seed for a nurse crop. If you need some advice, we'll share our expertise. Our goal is to become your one-stop lawn care center.

Vermillion Sunny Mix
✔25% Baron Kentucky Bluegrass
✔25% Park Kentucky Bluegrass
✔30% Fiesta 4 Perennial Ryegrass
✔20% Creeping Red Fescue

This mix provides a quality turf with rapid germination and establishment. Recommended for residential and commercial lawns, playgrounds, athletic and other general turf areas.
Maintenance Level: Low to medium
Seeding rate: 4-6 lbs. per 1,000 square feet
Vermillion Shady Mix
✔40% Creeping Red Fescue
✔20% Park Kentucky Bluegrass
✔20% Fiesta 4 Perennial Ryegrass
✔20% Chewings Fescue

This mix offers a combination of shade tolerance and a quality turf. Recommended for areas that receive 30%-75% shade. Tolerates drought and performs better than fescues alone.
Maintenance Level: Low to medium
Seeding rate: 5-6 lbs. per 1,000 square feet
Sun-Shade Mix
✔20% Skye Kentucky Bluegrass
✔20% Appalachian Kentucky Bluegrass
✔20% Nexus Pernnial Ryegrass
✔20% Longfellow II Chewings Fescue
✔20% Boreal Creeping Red Fescue

This mix is a good choice for a quality turf suitable to most areas. Recommended for lawns and parks that receive approximately 50% shade. Suited to various soil conditions and traffic levels.
Maintenance Level: Low to medium
Seeding rate: 4-5 lbs. per 1,000 square feet
LoGro Mix
✔20% AberCharm Slender Creeping Red Fescue ✔20% Cindy Lou Creeping Red Fescue
✔15% Longfellow II Chewings Fescue
✔15% Scaldis II Hard Fescue
✔15% Silhouette Chewings Fescue
✔15% Eureka II Hard Fescue

This is a very drought and shade tolerance mix. It provides quick cover, yet maintains a slower growth that requires less mowing. It is an excellent choice for cabin and lakeshore areas, ballfields, tree farms, cemeteries and highway medians.
Maintenance Level: Low
Seeding rate: 5-6 lbs. per 1,000 square feet
Boulevard Mix
✔30% Alkaligrass
✔30% Boreal Creeping Red Fescue
✔25% All Star 3 Perennial Ryegrass
✔15% Park Kentucky Bluegrass

This a salt-tolerant mix that is perfect for boulevard areas damaged by salt applied to winter roads. Also a great choice for homeowners with damage spots from pets.
Maintenance Level: Low to medium
Seeding rate: 5-6 lbs. per 1,000 square feet
Sandy Soil Blend
✔20% Longfellow II Chewings Fescue
✔20% Kokomo II Perennial Ryegrass
✔20% Boreal Creeping Red Fescue
✔15% Park Kentucky Bluegrass
✔15% Eureka II Hard Fescue
✔10% Cindy Lou Creeping Red Fescue

This mix is adapted to light, dry, sandy soils. A quick germinating mix that forms a dense, dark green turf.
Maintenance Level: Low to medium
Seeding rate: 5-6 lbs. per 1,000 square feet
Pro Turf Mix
✔20% Rugby II Kentucky Bluegrass
✔20% Appalachian Kentucky Bluegrass
✔15% Skye Kentucky Bluegrass
✔15% Quantum Leap Kentucky Bluegrass
✔15% All Star 3 Perennial Ryegrass
✔15% Cabo II Perennial Ryegrass

This mix provides a tough, durable turf for high-wear areas. It is the right choice for athletic fields, golf course fairways and tee boxes, playgrounds and other hard-use areas. Also suited to overseeding worn or abused turf areas.
Maintenance Level: Medium to high
Seeding rate: 3-4 lbs. per 1,000 square feet
Dense Shade Mix
✔20% Kokomo II Perennial Ryegrass
✔15% Boreal Creeping Red Fescue
✔15% Cindy Lou Creeping Red Fescue
✔15% Longfellow II Chewings Fescue
✔15% Silhouette Chewings Fescue
✔10% Skye Kentucky Bluegrass
✔10% Poa Trivialis

This mix contains fine fescues, shade-tolerant bluegrass and poa trivialis to provide a healthy, dark green lawn that tolerates densely shaded areas.
Maintenance Level: Low to medium
Seeding rate: 5-6 lbs. per 1,000 square feet
State Fair Fall Mix
✔23% Mongoose Kentucky Bluegrass
✔23% Park Kentucky Bluegrass
✔35% Boreal Creeping Red Fescue
✔19% Kokomo II Perennial Ryegrass

This mix is great for fall plantings and generates a lawn worthy of a blue ribbon!
Maintenance Level: Medium to high
Seeding rate: 4-5 lbs. per 1,000 square feet
Endurance Mix
✔30% Bingo Tall Fescue
✔20% Rhizing Star Tall Fescue
✔20% Kalahari Tall Fescue
✔20% Serengeti Tall Fescue
✔10% Appalachian Kentucky Bluegrass

This mix blends turf-type tall fescues with Kentucky Bluegrass to create a durable lawn that is resistant to drought, heat, shade and the wear and tear of heavy foot traffic. It's a great choice for industrial/commercial installations, homes, parks and athletic fields.
Maintenance Level: Low to medium
Seeding rate: 8-10 lbs. per 1,000 square feet
Prevail Per Rye Blend
✔34% Nexus Perennial Ryegrass
✔33% Kokomo II Perennial Ryegrass
✔33% All Star 3 Perennial Ryegrass

This mix provides higher salt tolerance than other lawn grasses, resistance to diseases like gray-leaf sopt, fast growth and quicker lawn establishment, dark green color. Often used in areas such as athletic and sports fields, golf courses and residential lawns.
Maintenance Level: Low to medium
Seeding rate: 4-6 lbs. per 1,000 square feet
All-Purpose Mix
✔35% Fawn Tall Fescue
✔20% Annual Ryegrass
✔15% Creeping Red Fescue
✔15% Park Kentucky Bluegrass
✔15% All Star 3 Perennial Ryegrass

This mix provides a tough, durable turf with little to no maintenance required.
Maintenance level: None to low
Seeding rate: 4-6 lbs. per 1,000 square feet
Maintenance Guide
LOW MAINTENANCE
Requires little or no fertilizer and minimum water usage, other than what Mother Nature provides. Mow only as needed.

MEDIUM MAINTENANCE
Requires 1-2 applications of fertilizer annually, water to prevent stress and mowing on a regular basis without removing more than 2".

HIGH MAINTENANCE
Requires 3-4 applications of fertilizer, water on a regular basis and mowing on a regular bases at lower than normal heights.

Old 500 Mix
✔40% Park Kentucky Bluegrass
✔20% All Star 3 Perennial Ryegrass
✔20% Smooth Bromegrass
✔14% Timothy
✔6% Alsike Clover

This mix is the old MnDOT specialty mix. It's perfect for ditches, hillsides and road right-of-ways.
Maintenance level: Low
Seeding rate: 4-6 lbs. per 1,000 square feet
Town & Country
✔25% Annual Ryeglass
✔15% Fawn Tall Fescue
✔15% Park Kentucky Bluegrass
✔15% Creeping Red Fescue
✔15% Perennial Ryegrass
✔15% Timothy

This is a versatile, all-purpose mix for general landscape use. Establishes rapidly and is partially shade tolerant, drought tolerate and holds up to heavy traffic.
Maintenance level: Low
Seeding rate: 4-6 lbs. per 1,000 square feet
Vermillion Elevator
203 Main Street
Vermillion, MN 55085
651-437-4439

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