Hydroseeding in Cedar Hill, TX

Hydroseeding in Cedar Hill is slope work more often than not. The city is sometimes called the hill country of Dallas. It stands at about 800 feet, the highest point on a straight line from the Red River to the Gulf Coast, and it is full of native eastern red cedar. Lots here can drop quickly from the street to the back fence, and rain moves fast across them.

Two kinds of ground

The area is a transition zone between rolling tallgrass prairie with black clay soil and a rugged limestone escarpment. Dogwood Canyon formed where the Blackland Prairie meets the white rock of the Austin Chalk. On one street a yard can have deep clay; on the next, a few inches of soil over chalk. Thin soil over rock dries out fast, so we add topsoil and pick a mulch that holds moisture.

Holding steep yards

On steep backyards and road cuts, standard hydromulch can slide in a hard rain. There we switch to erosion blankets or bonded fiber matrix, seed into them, and run silt fence along the toe of the slope until the grass is thick. Terracing or a shallow swale can also slow water before it reaches a neighbor.

Native grass nearby

Cedar Hill State Park covers 1,826 acres on Joe Pool Lake, and the Penn Farm area keeps remnant prairie with Indian grass, little bluestem, big bluestem, sideoats grama and switchgrass. Owners of larger lots sometimes want the rough ground beyond the lawn seeded in native grasses like those, which root deep and handle slopes well once established.

Our Cedar Hill jobs

• Slope stabilization with blankets or BFM
• New lawns on thin soil over chalk
• Native prairie mixes on acreage
• Silt fence for hillside builds

For a sloped yard or hillside build, get a free estimate or call (469) 210-5759.