Hello,
This stone area is super brutal with weeds and not easy to walk on.
Any recommendations for minimizing the weeds and also fixing these large stones. Not sure if I should just pour small gravel on top or just remove the large stones first.
Thanks!
by Ok-Ad-8167
2 Comments
Why do you need to walk there? Not being rude, that’ll help recommend a better solution for this spot. Seems like the spot should be a viewing or visiting destination but there’s nothing excited to actually get to. If you want to make it a front porch seating area or swing, or maybe a rain garden or fountain, that’ll change the budget rec you get. Personally I’d try to make a vertical layer on the far side of the fence where it’s parallel to the road. Something evergreen. You could take some cuttings of that climbing plant on the right side of the pic and propagate more of those on the empty fence for instance. You want something taller than that juniper in the middle. I’d move that to the front of the bed, close to where the photographer is but opposite the yellowish shrub. Make the empty space between them a winding pathway to a small fountain, statue, or something. You’d mark the path, remove all the stones in the marked path, lay down 2” of cardboard, then put the big stones along the edges of the marked path, and backfill the rest with small stones of about the same size. You can add pavers then or just leave it as gravel. I’d personally reseed with a ground cover of my own, either a native variety or something like creeping thyme, phlox, wild violets, etc.
If you just want to get rid of weeds & not change much, then get a better weed maintenance plan like weeding twice a week in the mornings, and growing your own ground cover to fill the space that weeds would grow. If you never want a weed again, unfortunately there’s no genie to grant that. You’ll have to remove weeds or grow something that takes the space where weeds would grow.
I’d remove the rocks and give them away or repurpose as edging to a small pond. Water the area well and remove garden plants to a damp shady spot and cover with wet towels. Dig out all the weeds, replant what you’ve got and mulch.