Denver is a very tough place to garden. Dry hot summers, cold winters, freak thunderstorms, high wind, wildfires.
SeraphimSphynx
Does it have water egresses built into the concrete?
reallyreally1945
Know your underlying soil before piling on the pea gravel! We used some in San Antonio and it bonded with our soil (dense clay over caleche) to form an impervious mess that nothing could grow in except some nuisance grass the birds carried in. The grass had a myriad of thin shallow roots and just sat on top of the gravel. The natives I planted had deep roots to wait for the rain that couldn’t seep down past that @#”-!! pea gravel barrier. I paid to have it dug up and moved behind the garage where nothing grows. From then on we use organic mulch in the cront yard. It decomposes to form beautiful soil that supportd wormd to soften the underlying clay. We learned that there are several very different soil zones in San Antonio. I’m sure that is the case in other areas. You can look for soil surveys.
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DBG – one of my favorite places in the world!
Denver is a very tough place to garden. Dry hot summers, cold winters, freak thunderstorms, high wind, wildfires.
Does it have water egresses built into the concrete?
Know your underlying soil before piling on the pea gravel! We used some in San Antonio and it bonded with our soil (dense clay over caleche) to form an impervious mess that nothing could grow in except some nuisance grass the birds carried in. The grass had a myriad of thin shallow roots and just sat on top of the gravel. The natives I planted had deep roots to wait for the rain that couldn’t seep down past that @#”-!! pea gravel barrier. I paid to have it dug up and moved behind the garage where nothing grows. From then on we use organic mulch in the cront yard. It decomposes to form beautiful soil that supportd wormd to soften the underlying clay. We learned that there are several very different soil zones in San Antonio. I’m sure that is the case in other areas. You can look for soil surveys.