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Old 23-02-2008, 10:41 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default Hi I'm New / Gravel & Slate

"Rookie1510" wrote in message
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Hi I am new here. I am a total newbie to gardening as well : )

I have a small garden (approx 25ft by 20ft) some of which is decked.

At the bottom of the decking we have grass but after getting in a
gardener and having it re-turfed and re-seeding it's not working so
thinking of laying either gravel or slate but adding raised borders to
brake it and keep it looking pretty.

Any tips? Would slate look odd as i prefer it to gravel?

Does anyone have any pictures of their gravel / slate gardens please
Rookie1510




It'll be much easier to lift the gravel "tiles" out of the way to weed. And
no matter what you do (with one exception), you will have weeds. The
exception: Treat weeds constantly with some sort of weed killer. You don't
want to do that.