Hydroseeding in Castle Rock, CO

Hydroseeding in Castle Rock deals with more slope than most of the metro. The town sits a few miles east of the Rampart Range on the western edge of the Great Plains, in the Colorado Foothills life zone, where hillsides carry grass meadows, scattered juniper, open ponderosa pine and Gambel oak. Its population rose about 52 percent between 2010 and 2020, and much of that growth was built by cutting into those hillsides.

Gulch-side lots

East Plum Creek flows north through town, fed by Hangman's Gulch and several unnamed gulches in the south and west. McMurdo Gulch and Mitchell Gulch drain the east side toward Cherry Creek. A new home above one of these gulches often has a fill slope behind it. On those slopes the hydroseed goes under a stapled blanket or a coat of bonded fiber matrix, with silt fence or wattles along the toe until the grass is established.

Matching the native hillside

In Castle Rock many owners want the slope behind the house to look like the surrounding meadow rather than a mowed lawn. A native grass and wildflower mix can be hydroseeded on these areas, with irrigated turf kept to the flatter yard near the house.

Late-summer storms

Castle Rock has a semiarid climate with August as its wettest month. Summer storms on a freshly graded slope can cut rills in a single afternoon. We try to have seed and mulch on bare ground before the late-summer storm pattern, and we use tackifier or bonded fiber matrix so the cover holds.

Builder work

With so much new construction, many of our Castle Rock jobs are for builders and site contractors: silt fence installation, inlet protection on new streets, hydromulch on disturbed areas between phases, and final seeding once lots are graded.

Castle Rock services

• Slope stabilization on gulch and hillside lots
• Native grass and wildflower seeding
• Silt fence, wattles and inlet protection
• New lawn hydroseeding on flatter yard areas

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