As spring approaches and the weather grows warmer, the time for gardening and sprucing up your lawn has arrived. 

Homeowners are using these warmer, sunnier days, to make improvements to their landscaping including growing healthy grass.

Although laying sod, patches of grown grass that you roll out on a lawn, is the procedure most commonly utilized to grow grass, hydroseeding has emerged as an effective and less labor intensive alternative. 

In an article for The Spruce, Nadia Hassani defines hydroseeding as an all in one method that contains seeds, fertilizers, mulch, soil amendments and moisture. This nutrient rich mixture is sprayed onto good soil where it will germinate.

“Hydroseed covers and protects the grass or the grass seed while it’s trying to germinate,” MH Turf Care owner Macon Henry said. “It’s the most effective way to grow good quality, sturdy grass over a long period of time.”

Henry has 10 years of experience growing grass and his plan is to provide hydroseeding to the community. He has a hydroseeding tank hooked up to his company truck which allows him to spray lawns with the nutrient rich solution.

Henry started to build and gather equipment for his new hydroseeding setup in 2022 because he was looking for an effective way to provide grass at the golf course and he figured he could also use his equipment in residential areas. 

Looking into the future, Henry’s goal is to supply his customers with the best quality lawn they can have. 

Hydroseeding is a fast acting method. After a mere five days, the grass seed will begin to germinate. Thirty days following the procedure, your lawn will be ready to mow. 

A common misconception about hydroseeding is that it is more expensive than laying sod. However, this is not the case. MH Turf Care charges a mere 24 cents a square foot which is roughly half the cost of sod Henry said.

Even though a homeowner must hire a professional to hydroseed their lawn, they will have to perform little to no additional labor. 

“As far as the homeowner or the project owner’s perspective, it doesn’t really involve any equipment,” Henry said. “You need to have good irrigation and good soil condition. But other than that, it’s just normal lawn care for the homeowner.”

Since Powell is at a high elevation, it is sometimes hard to get grass to grow, but hydroseeding can help with this problem. Hydroseeding is the most effective way to grow grass in this environment. 

“It’s not like you just throw [grass] on the ground and it grows,” Henry said.