RE: Progress on the garden wall/pea gravel

Don't know if this would work but could it be used as a base for a walk? 
Dig out the area, put down the pea gravel, cover with a light cement base
and put brick, stone, etc. on top.  Just trying to come up with a use...I
tend to try to recycle everything.

Bonnie Zone 6+ ETN




> [Original Message]
> From: Theresa <tchessie@comcast.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 01/06/2004 6:59:20 PM
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Progress on the garden wall/pea gravel
>
> OK- if anyone wants pea gravel, they can have all they want free for the
> taking from my back 'patio'.  The former home owners thought it would be a
> great idea to dump about 12 inches of the stuff in an area about 12x24 and
> put one of those inflable pools there.  So, now we have a completely
> ungardenable area, the pea gravel is forever getting ontop of the stepping
> stones and then you kill you bare feet stepping on it. They also had pea
> gravel ontop of the raised brick bed bordering the east and sound walls of
> the house. I assume because nothing- not ever weeds would grow there. I
did
> dig all of that pea gravel out within the first 6 months in the house,
along
> with digging out the worst excuse for dirt (mostly hardpan) down about 18
> inches, and refilled the beds with real soil.  It has been part of the
> veggie garden and a perenial bed with a lemon tree in the middle since
then.
> Amazing what real soil will do for helping things grow!
>
> Someday i want Ground Force to come to my house, dig out all 8 thousand
> pounds of pea gravel from the back 'patio' and put in a garden there
> (including a water feature of course!- I just love Charlie, she cracks me
> up.)
>
> Theresa
> Sac, CA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On
> Behalf Of Marge Talt
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 9:03 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Progress on the garden wall
>
>
> Yeah, we did, didn't we, Pam.  I swear I'm gonna try it as everything
> that grows here seeds into the gravel drive.
>
> Trouble with pea gravel is that it never packs down and it washes off
> a slope like crazy.  About half of the walk around my damp garden is
> now at the bottom of the hill after all our torrential rain this
> year.  I retrieved most of it only to have it wash right back down;
> have to do something different there but not sure what at this point.
>  I saw some that looked like it had been crushed in the UK years ago
> - great driveway surface; even brought a few back with me, but have
> never seen anything like it here.  I much prefer the color of pea
> gravel to the gray granite stone we get here.  I think our drive is
> 3/4 and larger and it packs under major traffic after a few years but
> not really where there isn't much traffic.  Need more gravel on it
> and mean to try a smaller size when our boat comes in to see if it
> will pack into the crevices and maybe discourage some of the
> weeds....HA!
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@hort.net
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> ----------
> > From: Pamela J. Evans <gardenqueen@gbronline.com>
> >
> > My driveway is pea gravel and stream gravel and I am going to throw
> > seeds out there to start this Spring. I've spent the past two
> months
> > picking up 6 zillion hackberries so I can put good stuff out there.
> I
> > think Marge and I had a discussion last year about trying this as
> an
> > experiment!!
> >
> >
> > ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> > From: "Judy L Browning" <judybrowning@lewiston.com>
> >
> > >This discussion just reminded me of a nursery I visited a few
> years ago. It
> > >was a house on a city lot. She replaced all the grass with
> landscaping &
> > >potted plants. Paths were washed 3/4 minus gravel to a depth of 6
> inches.
> > >She said it packed well, didn't track too badly. Her lot was flat
> so I don't
> > >know if washing onto the sidewalk would be an issue. I suspect
> anything
> > >without roots will tend to do that?
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Donna " <justme@prairieinet.net>
> > >
> > >
> > >> Another issue is everything reseeds in pea gravel. I spend more
> time
> > >> weeding my pea gravel than my garden beds! I have an area around
> the one
> > >> side of pond between the deck/pond and garden beds. I am
> sooooooo sorry
> > >> I ever put pea gravel down, but no way to get a lawnmower in
> there and
> > >> couldn't think what else to do... has to be walked on all the
> time.
> > >>
> > >> I have actually thought about spreading some seeds in there to
> get them
> > >> started... seriously!
> > >>
> > >> Donna
>
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