"shazzbat" wrote in message
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"Sue" wrote in message
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Does anyone know where I can buy largish quantities of slate chips. My
front
garden is on a slope and we get lots of ash saplings trying to take
over.
I'm thinking of planting some shrubs through anti weed matting,
covering
the
matting with slate chips and holding those back with junior sleepers.
The
rest will be lawned so I can chop the heads off any ash saplings!

All advice / comments welcomed as I'm very much a beginner.

Thanks,

Sue

You will find them at garden centres, but this will probably be quite
an
expensive way to buy them. Try your local Quarry/sand&gravel suppliers
and
ask for price per tonne. If they don't sell it, they probably will know
who
does. Also try demolition contractors.

Steve


Thanks, the high cost of buying bags from the garden centre was my reason
for asking.
I haven't found any suppliers locally and hadn't thought of demolition
contractors even
though my brother is one! Strangely they bought bags for their garden.
Still, he keeps
me well supplied with chimney pots, ridge tiles etc. so I can't complain.

Keep well in with your brother, he's going to be worth it. If you mention
to
him that you'd like any damaged tiles that he can't sell from demo jobs,
you
could smash them up yourself. I don't know whether slate is the grey or
the
green variety where you live, I think the grey is fairly unlikely to clash
with much. I've seen the green used as mulch in beds and to me it looks
like
phoney grass.


Steve


Definitely worth doing - at the rate I'm going he'll never have anything
left to sell!

Sue