Seeding Ground That Sits a Mile Up

Elite Hydroseeding Denver sprays new lawns, seeds construction sites, stabilizes slopes and installs silt fence and other stormwater controls across Denver and its suburbs, from Brighton and Thornton in the north to Castle Rock in the south and Golden on the mountain side.

We built the business around how seed actually behaves here. Denver sits at 5,280 feet with a cool semi-arid climate, about 14.5 inches of precipitation in an average year and roughly 3,100 hours of sunshine. Most of that moisture comes from April through August, often as afternoon thunderstorms that can wash a bare lot into the street in an hour. Hail is common enough that Denver has had three of the ten costliest hailstorms in US history. Under the lawns, the Colorado Geological Survey calls swelling clay the state's most significant geologic hazard. Seed that is sprayed on poorly prepared, poorly graded ground in that climate either dries out, washes off or ends up watering a foundation.

So most of our work happens before the hydroseeder starts. We look at the grade, the soil, the sun and the irrigation, and then we choose the seed: Kentucky bluegrass blends or turf-type tall fescue for irrigated lawns, buffalograss and blue grama for dryland areas and low-water yards below about 6,500 feet, and erosion mixes for slopes and job sites.

Our approach on a Front Range job

• Nobody quotes a number until one of us has stood on the lot, and if the ground needs grading or topsoil first, we say so
• Estimates list grading, soil prep, seed mix, mulch and any blanket or silt fence as separate lines
• Grade is set to carry water away from the foundation, as Colorado State University Extension recommends before any seeding
• Seed mixes are matched to elevation, sun, water and use, not a single all-purpose bag
• Cool-season lawns are timed for late summer when possible, warm-season natives for late spring
• On larger sites we install and keep up the erosion and sediment controls your stormwater plan calls for
• The day the slurry goes down, we hand you a printed sprinkler schedule and tell you when to make the first cut

We will not promise results we cannot control, like the weather. What we can control is the preparation, the seed and the timing, and we will explain each of them before you sign anything.

Call (720) 709-1287 to set up a free site visit.