Tuesday, August 14, 2018

What Are The Advantages Of Hydroseeding Over Sod And Broadcast?

By Harold Wood


You might have the most impressive looking house in the neighborhood, but if your lawn is overgrown, patchy, or discolored, it will make the whole place look like an eyesore. Mowing and edging are helpful, but that doesn't address the issue of the grass's color and texture. If you want a truly lush lawn, you have some options. You can put down broadcast seed, install sod, or opt for hydroseeding, which is also called hydromulching. Hydromulching has advantages you should consider.

Hydromulching is a technique used after a fire to regrow vegetation in wilderness areas. It is used to regrow riparian vegetation. Hydromulch is a slurry of mulch and seed, transported by trailers or tanks, and sprayed over prepared soil. Construction crews use it to control erosion. It has been shown to be effective for properties with steep hillsides and sloping lawns.

Dry seeds are traditionally spread and then covered with an overlay of straw, ostensibly to keep the seeds in place and to discourage birds. Unfortunately the weather doesn't always cooperate, and a good wind will send the straw, and the seeds, sailing. Hydromulching on the other hand has a tackifier that acts as a sort of glue holding the slurry in place.

Broadcast seeding can evaporate. Grass must have moisture to grow. There is moisture in slurry. Hydromulch also has a coating to protect seeds from evaporation. Straw doesn't have the same capability. Straw can also drain nitrogen out of soil. It encourages weeds to grow up along the seedlings. There are wood fibers in hydromulch that add to the organic humus composition making the under layer of a lawn much stronger.

Hydromulching has obvious advantages over sod. Sodding a yard can be up to four times more expensive than hydromulching. Sod certainly looks great, but hydromulching can compete with it in the looks department and save your pocketbook at the same time. If sod isn't compatible with your soils, it won't take. The soil will reject it. Hydromulch can be mixed to complement your soil, making rejection much less likely.

The roots are cut off before sod is laid. This contributes to the chance that soil will reject the sod. Even if it takes, the result may not be healthy. Seeds are germinated with hydromulch. They take root in the soil while the blades shoot up. The result is a much hardier and healthier lawn than one on which sod was laid.

Hydromulching is significantly less expensive than sodding, but is more expensive than broadcast seed. When you factor in time, aggravation, and energy, as well as the cost of straw mulch and fertilizer the cost of hydromulching is much more competitive. Hydromulch also inhibits erosion.

An impressive lawn can be time consuming and expensive. That's why you need the most cost effective product that is capable of producing the results you want to see. Comparison shopping will prove hydromulch is the best choice.




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