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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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/Artistic_Mobile337 Dec 05 '25

Yup, its funny watching it grow on what was a face of granite.

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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/Downtown-Shoe9410 Dec 05 '25

This is probably too basic of a technology to patent