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Landscaping Recommendations With Gravel and Mulch Ground Covering

by Terry Fernandez

There are many options for landscaping your yard with attractive materials, such as gravel, rock products, and mulch. Whether you are installing a gravel driveway or adding in a new ground cover of bedding mulch, rock is long-lasting. Durable and organic mulches have many environmentally sustaining options. Here are some helpful recommendations to improve and update your yard with the right type of ground covering and gravel materials for your landscaping.

Improve Your Landscaping

Gravel and other types of mulch covering can make a great improvement to your property in several ways. With a new layer of gravel, rock, or bark mulch, for example, you can help the soil conditions and make the area look more attractive. Gravel covering an area of soil can protect the soil from erosion due to wind and precipitation, and it can protect against weed growth within the area. A gravel covering will also protect the soil against moisture evaporation from the sun's heat.

The gravel or rock covering creates a barrier that never breaks down, unlike organic mulch. So with gravel, you rarely need to replace it with supplemental materials as you are required to do with wood chip, mulch, or bark because rock and gravel do not break down with decomposition. 

Add in Gravel Pavement

Gravel can also promote a successful surface as a pavement or foundation material around your property and landscaping. When you are installing a new gravel driveway, you will need several layers of angular gravel ranging from baseball-sized foundation pieces to surface gravel that are angular and small-in-size. Together they can compact to create a strong surface. Angular compacted gravel will actually cause the individual pieces to interlock together to become a near-solid and stable surface that will support the weight of your vehicle. 

Other types of gravel, such as pea gravel or decomposed granite, will provide an attractive surface covering for a gravel walkway or for fill materials between flagstone or cobblestone rock.

Arrange For Delivery and Installation

When you have chosen the type of gravel or mulch material that you want to install in your yard, you can order it from a local supplier or a landscape company. This option is always a good choice when you are trying to update the look of your yard because the supplier can usually deliver it right to you and deposit it on your worksite.

Just be sure the area is prepped for the delivery, whether it is with a tarp or the installation site ready for its deposit. Then, you can work the materials around your landscaping and yard for the best improvement.

For more information about aggregate for sale, contact a local business in your area.

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