How well does a job need to be prepared for hydroseeding?
Hydroseeding came into use with the advent of the interstate hightway system during the Eisenhour administration. Prior to that time, roads went over hills or around them. Now they started to go through the hills leaving steep banks that conventional seeding equipment could not get on. Hydroseeding was the solution to that problem, and produced great growth with no preparation possible at all. If however I was doing the front yard of a half million dollar house and being paid a lot of money to do it. I would not recommend skimping too much. Our recommendation is to do the same preparation you would for seeding any other way, but in a situation where the weather hasn’t co-operated and perhaps rains have caused some crusting, just go ahead and seed. Hydro seeding will produce great results under a wider range of circumstances and get a higher percentage of seed to germinate.
