When used right, rocks can make your yard look better and require way less upkeep. We will break down the easiest, most practical ways to use rocks to create a landscape that’s low-maintenance and high-impact.
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Thank you John – love rocks and boulders! Happy Holidays!
Attractive and interesting suggestions with one glaring exception. Landscaping does not solve a homeless problem. It simply pushes homeless PEOPLE somewhere "else"e
How’s it going home skillets
Great video, love your puns😊
On the east coast, landscape rocks are easily overcome by weeds, no matter what. The nice looking yards you show would require routine care and up keep, like a full time job.
WEEDS?
I don't like rocks, they don't decompose. If I ever want to use the land for something else, it's a lot more extra work to get rid of them
I've seen some very cool rock use in Las Vegas. I don't get into the hotels and casinos so much but I love the landscape around there. The hiking is amazing too.
That orange tree behind you is gorgeous!
I have a zeroscape yard. We have areas of road base, nothing under it except soil; then other areas of L.F.and rock;then areas of wood mulch. Weeds grow through each and every area. We are always fighting a war on weeds with roundup. But we still like our landscaping because it looks good.
I'm
wondering if the rocks hurt the dog's feet
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I just came across your channel and am enjoying your tips, tricks, and advice. I’m very interested in the gravel pathway you’ve shown in your videos with the decomposed granite. From what I’m understanding, you haven’t used landscape cloth under those paths? It’s dirt, decomposed granite, then gravel?
Plus weeds…
Looks great for a while. I used lots of gravel and rock area around the house, lot of weeds start coming through, so spraying weed killer all the time. Especially in areas with plants, due to leaf drop creating a mulch soil between the gravel or rocks over time. Weeds only need a fraction of an inch of soil, so matting doesn't help.
When I watch your vid slowly I can see the green of weeds on the gravel.
2:37 looks like Arizona with the rock!
I have used pavers placed stepping distance away from each other then used mixed river rocks that were busted bags at the big box store and made a beautiful pathway down the side of my garage to the back yard. I am going to try to do this again here in my new house to connect a parking pad to the front walkway.
GOPHERS!!! Help! I lost a lot of my lawn and slope plantings to Gophers
In SW Missouri, rock as mulch does not work well. I think it is best in arid climates. Wood mulch works well as we have oak-hickory forests. I do use limestone as edging and some have pea gravel walkways. Thanks for your videos.
I’m enjoying your channel but the music makes it hard to hear
This is my favorite video that you've done so far for attractive landscape ideas that are low maintenance, and cut down on water use (and ever troublesome drip irrigation). I like that you're making more videos showing beautiful, affordable and accessible landscape examples for people on a budget; I want to use your new-to-me idea of DG between round rocks larger than gravel. Great tips for California hot, dry summers.
Always great videos with superb content…… thanks, I watch to learn and get inspired!
I am not getting any younger . What’s the best way to have a garden, your landscape with the least amount of physical work involved as you get older? Besides cementing all your garden
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The puns!! 😂😂😂 That was a Bold start! This video Rocks! 😂
I need to learn how to fix a slopped walk path, that has a few cracks and a part where water sits during rain.
Pls feed Chip homemade fresh dog food.
Me an the family was admiring the landscaping an addition to our local fresno zoo
Could listen to this bloke all day – he actually makes the task of this work sound interesting ! Thank you.
Rock is pretty but when you say it's low maintenance, I'd like to know how. We had ant beds, weeds, every bug you could think of likes to be under them because it remains moist in our area-still zone 9 in Texas. And when you dig it out to change it, oh my gosh!!! It's a job. Perhaps the crushed impacted granite makes the difference?
Living in Arizona, many people use rocks for landscaping their yards. I HATE it because it is near impossible to remove it when you want to redesign the yard or do some gardening. The rocks have been a nightmare for me!
So far I’m only seeing professional options – no “easy”, no DIY. Outta here
To each his own.
You are blowing a lot of hot air, out your trap, for nothing.
How to keep the thin grass off the decomposed granite though, without harsh chemicals?
I want to install a decorative stone garden. I do not understand what the best way forward is according to you. I would very much appreciate your take on what I should do. Living in the north-east where there is regular rain and snow.
At 2:29 and 4:57 you have a garden with plants and decorative stone in it. You said you don’t use DG or any base layer under that stone. So what do you use and how thick is that layer of decorative stone? Wouldn’t the stone sink into the soil over time, and the soil start to come up, if you use nothing? Wouldn’t weeds easily take root there since there is nothing to stop seed and root from getting down to the soil beneath? Imagine when it comes time to make changes or remove the decorative stone, and now it is all sunken in and mixed into the soil. This would involve a lot of labor to remove.
I also don’t necessarily like the idea of putting compacted DG in as base layer in a plant garden so I can put decorative stone over it. Imagine when you decide to make changes, how much labor it will take to remove the DG layer too.
Why not compact the soil, put in a 140N non-woven geo-textile, and put the decorative stone over that. Cut “X” holes around all the plants or easily move stone and cut new holes to access the soil, for new plantings. It wouldn’t have to be nearly as thick of a layer of stone. Weeds wouldn’t be able to take root into the soil, they would germinate above and be easily plucked out. When it comes time to make changes, like adding plants, or total renovation, the stones could easily be shovelled into wheel-barrows and the non-woven two-textile lifted out, and potentially used again. You wouldn’t have any soil mixed into your stones, and vice-versa. The 140N non-woven geotextile would be a professional contractor grade product. Much better for the job than what you find at a big box store. The landscape fabrics that big box stores sell are terrible and will fall apart.
This is what I think makes the most sense for my situation. I hope you can comment and give your take on it. Thank you.
We’re planning to build some terraces on a slope garden with stackstones. I’m assuming for a project like this tarp is needed to help with erosion control, right? If so, do we also need to cover the top of each terrace (the flat walkable areas) with landscape fabric/tarp if placing decorative rocks? Thanks for your very educational videos!
I like using big flat sandstones in my landscaping. I got them from Ohio corn fields.
Is DG the same as crush and run on the east coast?