Cheapest way to gravel the garden

complimentschemistry

Hey everyone,

I'm looking to gravel half of my garden (about 20ft by 12ft) and was wondering what the cheapest/easiest way to do this was? Not got much gardening knowledge or experience but the garden is more or less cleared and ready to go... just don't know what the next step is!

Any help would be very much appreciated

pinkcandyflossprincess

i got a bag of these pebbles which covered a 6 x8 shed and outer edge.
I got these http://www.earlswoodnurseries.co.uk/index.asp?page=productDetail&ProductID=5305&sub=159

you only have to pay the delivery charge once for whole order which is about £20, wish i had ordered more at same time as hae to buy more for another patch near shed to finish so will hae to pay charge again but the quality was good, i ordered topsoil as well for the same under shed area.

Green_eyes_3

I bought a tipper load for about £25 delivered for my old house.

Davesnave

You have about 25m2, so to cover with gravel at 5cm deep, you'd need 1.25 cubic metres of gravel.

However, what does 'more or less cleared and ready to go' mean? You may wish to consider covering the existing soil with a suitable membrane so that the gravel and underlying earth don't mix. You could even put down scalpings first to make a sub-base. Have you thought about how you'll edge it?

This is when jobs like this start to get expensive....:eek:

There are those who will tell you it doesn't matter, or that you can use old bin bags, nappies or cardboard boxes etc etc. as substitutes.

They are wrong!

(Just thought I'd get that in before the bodgers arrive!)

Lotus-eater

I once covered half a garden with old bin bags and rubble sacks, then gravel............Ooops .........I can see that has already been covered
Bodger Utd me

In all seriousness, buy the best weed fabric you can afford, if you want it to last a long time.

Davesnave

Lotus-eater wrote: »

In all seriousness, buy the best weed fabric you can afford, if you want it to last a long time.

That's it. Even in my old garden, which I visit and 'maintain' about 6 times a year, the weeds come straight out of the gravel, because there's Geotex under it.

I didn't buy the Geotex. A neighbour was.....err.... turfing over a gravel garden......

yumyums

Can you maybe put a request on freecycle for gravel? We've just taken up a load of gravel from our garden. You might get lucky and find someone in your area doing the same

ankspon

Eat several vindaloos, go into garden,drop shorts and pebbledash the garden

gardenroute

Make sure the ground is level first. You use a lot more gravel when you have to fill in hollows and put enough down to cover small bumps in the ground. You don't need/want to put too deep a layer down - just enough to cover the area. A membrane will keep the weeds growing in/from the soil beneath and it also stops the gravel being mixed into the soil as you walk on it and weed it.

bordercars

every gravelled garden you walk by , help yourself to a piece, sure they wont miss one bit.:D