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Chris, I guess what you are talking about is what is known in our area as "hydromulching" and I learned about it from a friend who builds golf courses. When we bought our last new house in town (in Dallas), I had the yard hydromulched with common bermuda for about half the cost of sod (and of course, I hired it done; don't know whether you can rent equipment to do it yourself). The instructions said to water it 2 or 3 times a day to keep it damp and to mow and fertilize after 28 days. Since it was in July, my wife was not working, and our daughters were out of school for the summer, they hand watered instead of using sprinklers and kept it damp. In 21 days (instead of 28) it was so high that I just had to mow. It worked so well that 4 different neighbors came to see how I did it, then called the same company to come do theirs.
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Larry, the company that hydromulched my lawn gave me a written guarantee that included coming back to do it over if a heavy rain washed it off. Sure enough, we had one heavy rain, just a day or two after the hydromulching, that washed a lot of my dirt out onto the paved alley. I scooped it all up with a shovel, put it back and spread it, then called the company. They said what they usually did was wait until the grass came up, then come back and re-do any bare spots, but that if I wanted them to, they'd come right then. I agreed to wait, and sure enough the grass came up in the dirt I had put back, too, so I never needed them to come back.
droz, maybe Richard came explain it better, but as I understand it, they have the grass seed, fertilizer, water, paper mulch, and green dye mixed, so they just spray it on the ground and the paper keeps it in place, and the seed, having been soaked in water at the right temperature has already started to germinate. Is that close, Richard?
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Thanks, Richard. I knew it was a little more complex than my oversimplified explanation, but that was about all I knew about it.
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