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Anyone here have a stone backyard?
DH and I are really considering doing this for at least 80% of our yard b/c we are not into lawn maintenance. Do yo like it or not? Have a pic? Mind sharing?
Married to DH 9/9/06
DD arrived 11/10/07
DS arrived 5/26/11
Re: Anyone here have a stone backyard?
If you mean pebbles...make sure you get a really good barrier between the pebbles and the ground. We have a pebble walkway and I'd rather mow than keep up with the weeds that grow through it. We use weed killer but then new ones sprout up. It's a PITA and we are getting rid of the walkway.
IL's and former neighbors also had stones and they also had the same problem.
Yeah, I thought the OP might have meant lots of stone/pebbles. The previous homeowners here evidently trucked in lots of the stuff (they had dogs and wanted someplace for them to pee freely), and now we fight weeds all season long. Here's a bad pic of one area last year. I had begun to enlarge the bed along the fence and was ignoring the weeds for the time being.
P.S. I think that eventually I want to remove the top layer of stones and plant a sun happy groundcover (maybe a small sedum) between the large pieces of slate. That sounds like a reasonable solution and achievable goal for this part of our yard. We could even place a patio set here in the summer.
I saw a flame thrower weed killer in the other thread and am thinking that would be great for this. We have a crushed stone driveway to our back garage and we are always spraying roundup . . . a flame thrower sounds more fun.