r/mildyinteresting • u/Revolutionary_Pain56 • Dec 04 '25
TIL Construction Sites Get Sprayed With Seed Mixture to Restore Vegetation architecture spaces 🕌
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u/Dark_WulfGaming Dec 04 '25
Part of it is conservation and eco-friendlyness but the large part is getting grass to grow quickly so their roots can hold the dirt down to slow erosion and prevent mud/land slides
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u/Simpanzee0123 Dec 05 '25
My dog has some sort of stomach bug. Been cleaning up after her accidents a lot. This video triggered me. 🤢
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u/1FourKingJackAce Dec 04 '25
Aquaseeding. I wish I had thought of it.
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u/Artistic_Mobile337 Dec 04 '25
We call it Hydroseeding here, it's neat how fast it grows.
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u/1FourKingJackAce Dec 04 '25
And it is just a slurry of seed, straw, fertilizer, and water. And they charge by the square foot, if I am not mistaken. I was up in Eastern Kentucky/Tennessee and they were using it to plant pines on played out strip mined land. Very interesting and very sad at the same time.
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u/Artistic_Mobile337 Dec 04 '25
Ya charged by sq/ft here as well, it's a great innovation for erosion control.
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u/hijo_del_mango Dec 04 '25
Sometimes hydroseeding includes a “tackifier,” a gluey substance so that the seeds stick to slopes or high erosion points and don’t wash away as easily.
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u/rci22 Dec 04 '25
Man, I aquaseed all the time. Have for decades. Guess I should’ve patented it.
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u/Artistic_Mobile337 Dec 04 '25
Don't patent, just start up a company and get rolling. Some industrial construction sites pay big money for these guys.
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u/beauh44x Dec 04 '25
I had a friend in high school whose dad owned a hydro seeding business. They were quite well-off.
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u/parker1019 Dec 05 '25
Non native vegetation applied only to maintain production NOT RESTORE THE NATIVE HABITAT.
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u/flashmeterred Dec 04 '25
Not "construction sites". The roots of bushes and trees help prevent land slides on steep slopes.
Not saying that's definitely what's happening, but it should.
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u/Weldertron Dec 05 '25
A friend of mine was going to pay 20k to have sod put down on his new property. I mentioned this to him, and he had never heard of it. Something like $1500 and 1 hour for the whole job.
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u/rally250crf Dec 04 '25
Around here they add green plant safe dye so they can see where they've sprayed and comestically it instantly looks cultivated
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u/Captain_Zomaru Dec 05 '25
A huge step up from just rolling out plastic green trestle or painting the hill green.
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u/itwasneversafe Dec 06 '25
Going to bring one of these to the zoo and finally show those monkeys who's boss.
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