What is Hydroseeding?

Hydroseeding is becoming a popular means of planting grass due to its relative ease of use, cost and effectiveness. It is the process of spraying a specially mixed slurry comprising of water, seed, mulch, fertilizer plus a binder all in just one operation. Once sprayed, the wet fibre mulch will help create a bond to the soil and provide the seeds with a water retaining blanketing-coat while protecting it from sunlight, wind, and erosion. As the grass seeds begin to germinate, the fibre mulch and fertilizer will slowly decompose adding nutrients to the soil and produce a lush green lawn in a very short time.

When choosing someone to hydroseed make sure:

• All seeds are supplied from a reputable seed house to your specification.
• All can be applied with a variety of mulches; wood fibre, paper, etc, together with organic tackifiers, fertilizers and trace elements to establish vegetation.
• Additives to the hydroseed mix such as plant hormones, polymers, additional erosion control tackifier, soil amendments and microbial bacteria, enhance germination to create the ideal growing environment that increases moisture retention and promotes soil stabilisation.

Where have some of our clients used hydroseeding?

Conventional Hydroseeding applications can be applied on slopes up to 3:1 gradient. Once slopes become steeper than 3:1 either a bonded fibre matrix or an erosion control blanket must be used to stabilize soils. Hydroseeding can be used on any properly prepared soils up to 3:1 slopes where you are not expecting concentrated water flows, such as ditches. If you wish to hydroseed a ditch or other drainage area, you have to either treat the areas of flow with erosion control blankets or divert the flow of waters until your newly seeded soils have fully established and rooted.