30-03-2012, 09:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 30-03-2012, 09:47 AM by Radio Fixer.)
In other threads we have confered about making gardens less labour intensive for the future. This pic show what I did in our front garden maybe 15 or more years ago.
There was grass, certainly not lawn that was ful of weeds and facing south was burnt out by mid summer. So I dug the top off put down miracle mulch (perforated plastic sheeting) and covered it with 2 -3" of granite chippings.
Now to do this from a nursery or builders merchants would have been very expensive. So I hunted around and found a road maintainence depot close to the M11. For a very reasonable sum they delivered me a tipper lorry full of chippings (far more than I paid for and much was used in the back garden as well) of my selected size. Sizes from a 10mm up to golf ball were available. Think these were 20mm. Nothing has ever grown through them although the shrubs shown, planted through holes, are now 4 ft in size. The prostate conifer has been good and as its grown I have extracted chippings to use elsewhere.
So look out for a depot near your own motorways... But beware you maybe offered 'hogging' which is a messy broken limestone? and to be avoided
Gary
There was grass, certainly not lawn that was ful of weeds and facing south was burnt out by mid summer. So I dug the top off put down miracle mulch (perforated plastic sheeting) and covered it with 2 -3" of granite chippings.
Now to do this from a nursery or builders merchants would have been very expensive. So I hunted around and found a road maintainence depot close to the M11. For a very reasonable sum they delivered me a tipper lorry full of chippings (far more than I paid for and much was used in the back garden as well) of my selected size. Sizes from a 10mm up to golf ball were available. Think these were 20mm. Nothing has ever grown through them although the shrubs shown, planted through holes, are now 4 ft in size. The prostate conifer has been good and as its grown I have extracted chippings to use elsewhere.
So look out for a depot near your own motorways... But beware you maybe offered 'hogging' which is a messy broken limestone? and to be avoided
Gary
