Black Hills Hydro Turf

Thank you so much!!!

Allie, you are the nicest! Thank you for the kind words! We appreciate you and your family! We are incredibly honored to have had the pleasure and opportunity to work with you!

Thank you Brian!

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Courtney and Joseph, thank you so much for bringing this situation up. It brings to light two very important factors when it comes to growing grass! Watering on a hillside, and the importance of proper soil preparation before planting a lawn (whether it be a hillside or not, proper soil preparation is the key to success when wanting to grow a healthy stand of grass). But first. For readers who need some context. This situation is a hillside behind a home in rapid city about a mile south of a rock quarry... so very ROCKY and heavy clay soil (as you can see from the picture provided). Homeowner was advised that hydroseeding when watered properly will grow, BUT it would NOT be a lawn. It would be thin (as shown in the picture)Homeowner did call, and I did tell them to just keep watering. It was very dry everytime I did come and look at it last year. I looked at it again the last week of April (last week) and the hillside was dry (as you can see in the picture.. lots of cracks in the ground). There was still a lot of hydro mulch still on the hillside (which means the seed did not wash away. There is seed in the hydro mulch slurry) I'm so glad the grass grew where it was watered! And where the mulch and soil was saturated . Hillsides, as we discussed last year are very tricky to water evenly. Watering from the bottom will only get the bottom wet. Even watering from the top, you have to run so much water on it to actually get water to be soaked in at the top of a hill. That is why i suggested soaker hoses and placing them at the top of the hill and letting a slow soak. Leaving the soaker on for long enough so that the water can saturate the hillside. Hillsides shed water. And that is what happened here. That is why you are getting the growth pattern as shown in the picture. The water shed and where it settled, grass did grow. Second, soil preparation! As seen in the photo provided, the soil condition at this particular location is very poor. Because of the soil conditions of where this house is located (Rocky and very high in clay content... there's a rock quarry about a mile north of this house), you would have benefited greatly from importing topsoil. But as discussed last year, it was not in your budget to do so. We did state that minimal vegetation would occur in the hillside due to the poor soil condition, so knowing that it was thick toward the bottom, where sufficient water was able get to the seeds and allow for germination is wonderful. And I'm glad you were successful in that part of the hillside. Thank you again for your feedback. And I'm so sorry you're expectations were not met.