Application of hydroseeding for environmental protection in the Mediterranean area

Abstract

Hydroseeding is a technique that involves the application of a complex mixture of seeds, fertilizers, mulch and water on lands through a suitable hydroseeding machine. It is a technique increasingly used to establish vegetation on large degraded areas in order to perform the environmental protection. The traditional sowing, in fact, would be ineffective in some particular areas difficult to recover and here the use of hydroseeding would represent a valid option within soil bioengineering. In this context, a research was carried out in order to test solutions to grass cover some plots in the Mediterranean area using different hydroseeding techniques. The research pointed out that an alternative technique of soil bioengineering as hydroseeding allows to obtain good results in terms of grass cover in the Mediterranean area.