Watch this quick guide on how to make a gravel garden.We show you a five step plan to making a gravel garden. You’ve got to start by ensuring the ground is flat and level and giving the area an edge. Once that’s prepared a weed proof membrane should be used to stop the gravel from mixing with the soil and of course to prevent weeds growing through. Finally we look at the best ways of planting it up before adding the gravel. All in all this covers the five crucial steps to creating a maintenance free gravel garden.
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Never ever put gravels in your garden. In a hot summer day, the gravels will absorb tons of sun radiation, making your entire garden hot like a human hell. The relative humidity in your garden will drop to 20% or lower. So, you are turning your garden into a desert. Plus gravels will not block weeds. In the long run, you will have to hand plug your dandelions or spray horrible herbicides to make your gravel look "clean".
Can we use od carpet instead of landscape fabric?
You don't suggest amounts of gravel (say, per square metre).
I wonder how you drained out the rain water that seep through the gravel, as you've got the stone edges around
Excellent!
Thank you.
nice i will try this love your garden ideas
best gravel garden video…short & concise
Very helpful thanks…
Awesome video and straight to the point:) Please what is the name of gravel??? Thank u
Thank you for keeping it straight to the point.
Thank you, the advice I was looking for 👌
Thankyou for the good advice xxx
Thanks for the video! Our small front garden is an unleveled gravel garden and I want to make it a bit more appealing to the eye. If I want to level it, do I need to remove all the gravel and start again? Thanks
What did you use to level the soil? Is it necessary to have a crushed rock base? The area i'm doing is 4m2 so not big at all. Many thanks!
I know everyone will laugh when I ask this but how EXACTLY do you level a garden? I've removed all the turf and now I'm struggling . The garden is 5.7mx5.3m and consists of THICK clay soil and rubble (bits of brick, stones, chippings and hard dried-out mini-boulders of clay). It's pretty square shaped but the centre is about 20cm higher then drops off on each side (like a kind of flat dome). We can't afford a digger -im doing everything myself. Also – 3 sides have panel fencing that sits on top of concrete panels. Do I dig a trench under them orbelow their level and fill it with something or maybe use railway sleepers? I have no landscaping knowledge other than I know I need to get it flat, but higher on the house side by 10cm (for drainage) – do I just have to keep crouching and trying to figure it out by eye? please help!
Thank you , simple easy steps , 🙂
I'm gonna call bullshit on this vlog. I'll tell you why. You don't mention sourcing the gravel. And what a complete testicle thumping experience that is. Utter nightmare. At around £130 for a 859kg bag you dont expect to be charged another £25 for delivering each one of those you order. And the fact that gravel suppliers are the middle men. So if you order golden gravel in London from a well known supplier it will be a different colour than I might get in Kent. Yours is a stunning buttery colour. Mine might be drab and whitey grey. So yeah …. diggy diggy, layee layee, stand back and take a strip of aspirin for your day on the Internet full of hell.
Helpful, thank you!
That first transition was everything.
Gravel sucks
Will heavy rain make the gravel damp and unwalkable? Especially so with the fabric underneath
Thankyou so much that is so clear and encouraging! I love your enthusiasm and can’t wait to do it!
Great video, simple and effective and gives me the reassurance I need to go ahead to transform my messy front of house patch.
Thanks but that weed barrier will disintegrate in a short time and weeds do come up.
Simple 5 sets – thank you. We would add PourOn to avoid them flicking everywhere.
Simple! Top man
Then after a year or two, couch grass comes along and zig-zags through that landscape fabric like it's nothing and all the fabric does is it's in the way. You'll need to remove the gravel and tare it all up etc.
Clear & concise! Very helpful 🤝
Short concise and useful video. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing the video, very informative and easy to follow. I am building a tropical garden. This video gave me a good idea to have a gravel garden. Can grow my tropical plant in pots and sit them on top of the gravel or plant them in the ground too! What’s gravel is good for tropical garden?
Could you use self binding gravel instead of normal gravel?
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Do we need the gravel grids for a patio? I've ordered one, but realised we might not need it now?
What kind of gravel is this?
Very good… I followed your instructions and my gravel garden is beautiful
Hi great video thank you. Could you do a video showing how to peg the fabric down please
I sure hope you cleaned the dirt off of the weed barrier. If not, that’s a completely fertile spot for weeds to grow. Seeds are throughout soil so if you lay the weed barrier down, then cut into it and cause a mess, you’ll have a weed mess in just a year or two. You should always plant first, then lay the barrier down and layer it around the plant.