Gravel Shopping
Sigh... this was something that we had been putting off for quite a while. Our house is currently surrounded by various piles of rock, mulch, and other things that we have been using for our amateur landscaping. And it has all been used slowly over the last couple of years with a small restock whenever we need more of things...
... anyway, we originally a plan of doing a path around our house in white rounded decorative gravel... which is nice, but costs a fortune compared to the regular river gravel. And I do wonder if it would just get too bright when in full sun...
Anyway, we had ordered a batch of that for the kids playground area... which they are quickly growing out of... and we had some regular gray gravel that we had used for insides of the retaining wall blocks and also for the base of the wicking bed areas. After seeing roughly how much the white decorative gravel would cost for a relatively large pathing area, we decided to switch to the regular river gravel.
And after we that... we had weed matted the pathing area... and sort of stalled a bit there as we both got quite busy. Thankfully the weeds haven't grown through the double layers of fabric, but I suspect that will given enough time. But in the meantime, my wife changed her mind about the gravel choice and had wanted to go back to the white rounded decorative gravel... but unfortunately, they no longer came in the sizes that we wanted, only a larger version which wouldn't be much use for a garden path! And even when we priced that up... well something on the order of 3000 dollars for rocks!
So, after dropping off a car for a service, we were in the right area to do a bit of a search around for appropriate gravel. And we sort of settled on this Bungendore Brown in 10mm.... it isn't rounded, but not quite sharp edged... and unlike the current gray river gravel that we do have and were going to use, it doesn't look as "dirty"!
So, we are going to have to get this priced up soon... probably will cost a fair bit still given the volume that we need... but not quite as much as the fancy stuff (which is unavailable anyway...).
... and bloody diesel prices means that there is a significant delivery surcharge. Grrrrr...
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Thanks for sharing this insight—definitely learned something new today! Looking forward to more practical content like this.
Thanks! It seems like a weird thing to discover how many different types of soil and gravel there are!
I live right around the corner from a landscaping place, so I usually just back my truck up and they dump whatever I need in the back. I think we are going to skip mulch this year, but we will need it again next year.
Oh, I guess you have a strong enough truck to handle that! I think our cars would buckle under the weight!
Yeah, it's a 2500, which is a 3/4 ton versus the standard 1/2 ton most people drive. It can tow up to 18,000 pounds and has a payload capacity of 4000 pounds.
We've been buying gravel too and it can get expensive. You can't really transport large amounts in a car. There are so many types out there. I do wonder where it all comes from.
I often wonder the same thing... are they just dredging up river rocks?
I think a lot of it is dug up from ancient beaches, but you hope they leave the current ones. I know that sand dredging is a big issue in some places. We humans have an insatiable desire for such resources to keep building stuff. We need to recycle much more.
That particular gravel reminds me of my carport (or rather my parents' carport) back home XD
Damn gravel sound expensive D: I kind of like the look of gravel paths but I also like my "barefoot friendly" gardens so have currently loosely settled for brick/pavers (we have some of those lying around the house already, most of it unexpectedly dug up when we were doing the gardens and some that just got moved around as J kept stealing them from the existing paths for various other projects, and I'm hoping getting some recycled/discarded/second hand ones won't be too expensive when I need more x_x).
Gravel is weirdly expensive... well, nice gravel is. Dirty sharp stuff that you use to fill bricks is pretty damn cheap! We have lots of bricks lying around as well... but not enough for a path... and my wife doesn't want those!
Tumbling them is probably energy and time consuming so more expensive x_x
Fill bricks? Like when you put it at the bottom for the path? Or in between?
You could use your leftover bricks as borders? I think that's what's going to end up happening with mine in a vain attempt to stop the chickens scattering too much dirt in the garden beds in their area XD
It's so expensive that you have to check if there are any gold nuggets in it :)
But if you're in a muddy plain like me where there's not a stone in sight . Then gravel is expensive.
Haha... gold would be nice...
Yea :)