Gravel...

What on earth do you do with it all?

The previous tenants of our bungalow appear to have imported the stuff in bulk and filled the back garden with it! What earth do you do with it all? How do you get rid of it?

It's full of mixed grades with builders sand I think as well easily 4-5" in places with no obvious membrane (old carpet maybe?)





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I can really empathise, it was concrete and gravel paradise under what was termed as my back lawn... Hence why we don't have a back lawn anymore, it was very hard work and costly to remove enough to enable us to put our garden design into place..

If you want to reinstate a lawn, then it's going have to be removed... Which isn't cheap, it cost us in best part of £500 to remove ours, we did it ourselves, and didn't hire a mini-digger...

If you decide to put a patio, flagstone etc down, it can be used as hard core under the sand bed, you might need to remove some of it, due to depth etc, just compact it down prior to putting the sand bed on..

But I would speak to your landlord, see what they are willing to do

 

Put an ad on Gumtree stating "help yourself".

 

I second the help yourself! Pile it into a nice pile to photograph and it'll be gone in a flash.
anyone needing drainage material it's perfect!

 

The clip from The Great Escape shows exactly how to get rid of excess gravel

 

Thanks everyone xD

I think I've decided on a a grass and gravel garden

Any recommendations on must have ornamental grasses? I'm thinking large swaths of fluffy grasses and then leaving gravel paths all over so you can walk between them all so step one is to hack all the large annual weeds out and then blitz with glyphosate every few weeks until most of the weeds are gone although I have spotted some horsetail and plenty of bind weed which needs to be gone sharpish!

 

Miscanthus zebrinus and Miscanthus sinensis 'Malepartus' are my taste

 

Hakonachloa Macra Aureola gets my vote (Japanese Forest Grass)

 

Stipa tenuissima is pretty. Pennisetum setaceum 'rubrum' is annual, but self-sows.

 

If you want grasses.....Aldi are having on offer from tomorrow.