I need to gravel over a lawn at the front of the house. Do I have to remove
the turf or can I just cover with weed inhibitor material and then tip the
gravel on?
thanks for any advice

I gravelled a small area of my front garden a couple of years ago. The
lawn, if you could call it that, was full of weeds on a clay soil, so there
was no need to take up the turf. Used weed killer then laid down a porus
membrane, then covered in gravel, planted a few low growing plants.


"Dee" wrote in message
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I need to gravel over a lawn at the front of the house. Do I have to
remove
the turf or can I just cover with weed inhibitor material and then tip the
gravel on?
thanks for any advice

we took up the "sod" mostly weeds so we could level the area well and then we set
gravel pavers in a design, so had to dig those in first, remove, put down the ground
cover and then put down the gravel. turned out spectacularly. Ingrid

"Dee" wrote:

I need to gravel over a lawn at the front of the house. Do I have to remove
the turf or can I just cover with weed inhibitor material and then tip the
gravel on?
thanks for any advice




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Could you please tell me what a 'gravel paver' is? Thanks, Rosie

in the middle are gravel pavers.
http://users.megapathdsl.net/~solo/p...el/gravel.html
Ingrid

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Could you please tell me what a 'gravel paver' is? Thanks, Rosie



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"Dee" wrote in message
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I need to gravel over a lawn at the front of the house. Do I have to
remove
the turf or can I just cover with weed inhibitor material and then tip the
gravel on?
thanks for any advice



Depends on what you want to do with it - for just low maintenance kill the
weeds with glycophosate type weed killer, follow up with sodium chlorate
type about 3 weeks later then, level the area (a thin layer of sand helps
with this), cover it with a weed proof porus membrane or even better just
old carpet, ---- you can use polyethene but you will need to leave big
drainage gaps or slope it to allow run off to avoid it becoming a pond.
The weed proof membrane also allows you to get away with less gravel.

On some of my ground I have used an old painter disposable dust sheet
covered by forrest bark its worked a treat for 3 years now on other paths I
have old carpet under red chips.

However if by chance you want to run a car on to it you need 2 to 3 inches
of compacted "Type 2" hard core below the gravel particularly on a clay or
lght sandy soil..

Comments about attempting the reverse?

Apparently the previous owner of my property loved decorative stone.
In a significant portion of what is now my lawn, if you can call it
that, he had put in stone. It's basically lots of weeds, a little
grass, growing over the stone. I can't get a spade into the ground and
when I finally work it up I find lots of those white stones. I want
to put in a lawn.

What's the best way to proceed? Digging up the stone is long, back
breaking work. Will spreading 2-3 inches of top soil over the
existing area and seeding work? Is there a better way?