DIY PEA GRAVEL CACTUS GARDEN and WALKWAY - LANDSCAPE FABRIC?
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Help with walkway / path
Comments (2)"Is there anything else I should worry about??" Actually, you should be worrying about the whole plan as it has plenty of undesirables. A swale is a gutter-like dip in the ground (like a ditch, though it could be very shallow) and I'm interested in seeing what you are calling that. Where two houses are situated in close proximity, it's likely that the entire space between them would constitute a swale. Forget the plan for a moment. Suppose you contact the city and tell them you wish to build a concrete sidewalk connecting the front of the property to the back. What are they going to say? Your walk can only be 8" in width and it must abut the house? A swale is going to carry water away whether it is paved or not, so it's hard to imagine that the regulations are so strict for you and so lax for your neighbor that he gets a walk and you don't. There's a big disconnect here. I would not call the city, but go down in person and discuss with them, not your neighbor's plan, but strictly what you want to do in your own yard (build a walk from front to back.) I would not volunteer any willingness to build it of pea gravel. (And I would not build it of pea gravel or p.g. with stepping stones in it. It's going to be nothing but problems, especially if this drainage way carries much water at times.) I don't suppose there's a neighborhood drainage ditch running just on your side of the line so I'd ask the city again couldn't you build a normal concrete sidewalk -- of a normal width -- along the side of your house. If they say OK, you can. Then surely it could be deduced that a paver walk, as well, is permissible. Discussing your neighbor's plans with the city can only potentially complicate matters for you. Get your own clearance. Let him get his own clearance. And after you have it, then build it together if it pleases you to mesh your plans and do it that way. Also, I would redesign your walk to get the wiggle out of it and leave more room for planting in the process. The small bed next to the steps is not a reasonable amount of room for plants. It would be better to have a simpler, more straightforward configuration to the walk. The little complications, as it now has, will not be cute but only make it look contrived....See Morelandscape fabric underneath gravel?
Comments (28)Yes, I know it has been years since anyone has posted a note on this site but....I have a retaining wall that my husband built about 6 years ago. We planted nice plants and some vinca, (big mistake, HUGE), the vinca has taken over everyting and is cascading down the wall. I want it gone! What I would like to do is take up all the plantings, (read vinca), and replace it all with nice looking stone gravel. But I do not want to waste time with thnigs that will not work. I am way to busy, and have an organic farm operation, with this seriously ugly front landscaping. I am looking at taking out all the vinca plantings with a weedeater than putting "round up" on it, then plastic and then the nice looking gravel stone. I am too busy with other stuff to do this more than once. What I need to know is: Will my plan work, and what kind of landscaping plastic do I need as a base for the gravel? Please someone help me! I would very much appreciate any advice. I am only planning on doing this once! Sending this out into the big black hole called the internet, hoping someone can help. thanks,...See MorePea gravel, construction sand, or lava rocks?
Comments (15)1)top (12:00) pourus pumice 2)right side (3:00) sifted for size scorsa 3)bottom (6:00) dry stall **avalable at farm feed and supply stores 4)left side (9:00) poultry grit ** avalable ay arm feed and suply stores 5) Center composted gravel * Also sifted for size having different shapes and sizes of granite in it including courser sifted SAND. Aqaruim gravel in this pic would be okay to use primarlay as a top dressing and maybe a piece or two ( small amount) in a grity mix soil but it's just to polished or not pourus enough to be relaiable. Personaly I wouldn't use the AKA river polished materails as an ingrediant in part of a gritty mix. There proberly is a Ph balance use or a potted plant application ( Proberly a few 1000 if I had to guess.) for it but I hadn't used what the google pic shows in anything here. Keep it simple. Even in 100 % pourus sifted sand a lithop is at a five star Ritz Carlton when potted here. While out grit shoping think sizeable by sifting materails that are both pourus and sharp. This post was edited by nomen_nudum on Thu, Jun 26, 14 at 16:04...See MoreGarden help! Should I put a path around raised garden beds?
Comments (21)Beautiful garden. I think it will be difficult to keep grass looking good around raised beds unless you have a lawn mowing company and then it will not be a problem. As' localeater' mentioned I would not use pea gravel. Seeing your beautiful garden I would not use any kind of gravel, but I think a stone path between the two beds and from the patio would look good. Of course if later you decide that that is not the place for your beds then it would look silly to have a path from the patio to the middle of your lawn. Good luck on your garden....See MoreSara Malone Zone 9b
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