Exactly what I needed to see. I have hostas to move and garbage cans to hide, amongst other things. Love how you did it with no fancy presentation or trying too hard. You got right to the point and didn't waste anybody's time. Thanks so much for sharing!
After a number of months of drought and triple degree temps here in Texas, I finally started gradually turning to Xeriscaping. I took my struggling ivy out that ran the length of my house and put down Canadian Large rocks which are in beautiful earth tones. Now, looking at it, I wish I had done it years ago. The ivy was nice, but, I have tons of trees and you can't get leaves out of ivy. If you use a blower, it sends the leaves deeper into the ivy, if I use a rake, I'm tearing off the leaves of the ivy. Now I have the stone down, I put two giant terracotta planters on top one with a palm in it the other I planted about 15 jumbo Caladiums in Florida Elise, and it looks just stunning. Little by little I'm adding areas of stones/rocks simply because I believe in conserving water, and you can always add decorative planters, or garden concrete statuary. You did a great job, it looks nice and neat with just enough color in the stones to make it interesting. About landscaper fabric, a landscaper told me it doesn't stop weeds because airborne weeds germinate on top of the fabric. I never thought about that.
I am a rockhound. I love decorating with rocks. You can place them in planters to keep moisture in. Also keeps the base cool only the top of the rocks get hot.
Looks great! I'd rather not use herbicides since they're terrible for the environment. Weeds always grow back so you have to continually apply herbicides. I think I'd prefer using a weed barrier or commit to hand weeding. Unlike mulch, rocks are more difficult to weed so that's the drawback to using them. But rocks look a lot better!
I'm seeing this video a year later. I love the layout of the gravel and hidden trash can... I couldn't agree with you more, this is completely "Gentle on the ears!" His calm voice and no loud crazy music. It's great! 👍
Looks nice. I like the look, texture and different colors and sizes of rock used. I have a thin strip about 15 inches by 20 feet between my garage, sidewalk, and Townhouse where I used riverrock and I spaced evenly, succulents and Malibu lights. It looks great and illuminates the sidewalk area.
I’m replenishing the front landscaping on my house with new river rock. The previous owners used river rock some 35 years ago, and they also used a plastic barrier. I’m replacing & repeating their original idea as shrubbery has become way too big & overgrown, have worn and the rock has settled well into the dirt surface. They, as well as me for the past 6 years, never bothered to remove fall leaves from the rock, so now the river rocks have settled into 35 years of muck, so to speak. I’m investing in a leaf blower and intend to use it several times throughout the fall and early winter seasons. Nice video, too, btw!
@@simd510 - I did use landscape fabric under the rocks and left small open spaces for small shrubs & the like. The size of my landscape rocks are about 1”- 4” diameter. And I use a leaf blower all the time, not just fall season.
Kudos to you 👍my experience with rock and landscape fabric was just the opposite.... Nothing but weeds 😡 so I'm tearing it out for mulch. I know weeds will grow up through the mulch but it seems more manageable to deal with versus rock 🤷
Use a preemergent, you wont have to deal with any weeds, either granular or a liquid. I have a rock garden in sun and shade about 3,500 sq ft, I switch up the preemergent from one brand to the next sometimes using using two in late winter to early spring, than one application first week in September. This works really well, just make sure whatever you use is meant for landscaping and not turf only. The cheap route is Preen all the time
What caught my eye here was the no fabric in the title. Bought a house 15 years ago with large yard areas and that had a stone/rock covered area with fabric underneath. Did not find the fabric barriers really did much, over time dirt settles in the rocks and weeds grow and the fabric inhibited the spread of the various plantings which you want to spread. Over time I have actually pulled up much of the fabric because it was easier to deal with the weeds and for greater spread of wanted plantings. Intuitively I would expect putting fabric underneath but my experience is again is do not bother. Also found fabric was not a water saver.
I like the different sizes and colors of the gravel that look good in your border of hostas. The fence was a fantastic idea for trash barrels. Well done projects!
I have a small area i want to use rock and came on to see if there was a video so yes, i got some good tips from this. I also like the " no music" . Thanks.
This is just what I was looking for. First time home owner and have some mulch areas that are just blah and wanted something a little easier and love the rock look. Very nice job! It all looks great!
Attention to detail makes all the difference!! I just subscribed after seeing how clean and crisp everything looks. You gave me a couple ideas for my trash cans! Thanks for sharing with us.
Love it! I'm planning on doing a rock gravel landscape with my backyard, and also, i like the idea for the trash bins as well. Thanks for sharing the video.
I’m on the process of redoing my garden… just got an idea on how I’d go about fixing my garden then. Thank you for sharing…. Hope to see more related videos in the future.
I like watering my rocks also, I used river rock and flat stones to landscape and got rid of mulch, and used a weed barrier. I didn't think about Preen, but I will now. I use round-Up and also pull weeds. Here in DFW, it's the weed capital it seems!
your dad's fence is dope! would love to know how he built it as I aim to do the same thing (after the million other projects I need to complete around the house first ) You did a fantastic job on the stones and hostas.
I did something similar with our garbage cans. Old owners had a bunch of skinny pavers for a mulch barrier that I pulled out. Laid those down under where the cans go to give them a platform. Then I had 2 scrap 2x6s for the posts and old 6' deck boards that I screwed on horizontally. Very clever idea!
I'm doing a similar project with old river rock for landscaping and pea gravel for a trash can area. You can use cardboard boxes or even newspaper as a weed barrier. Just cut it to the shapes you need and lay it down, dump the gravel on top and no more weeds. Works great and it's completely maintenance free so far!
IT looks Amazing!. I have a mess in my backyard. I have Gravel down and so many weeds grow through it. I have to push back the stone and add the fabric. But kudos to you for keeping the weeds down You just have o make sure you apply the Preen
Thanks for the video, Preen also makes a garden/vegetable pre emergent that's made from corn if you are worried about chemicals. Any Pre emergent will work in your flower beds as long as you don't try to grow from seeds.
I like the idea of using the level to spread the sand...and being able to see if the sand is leveled. That's a great idea👍And the hostas look great with the river rock good job👍
At first i was devastated that you were pulling out all those beautiful hosts!!! glad you reused them-could also have sold them to recoup some of the expenses really. love the final lock. you say the mini cobble is about $55/ton where you got it--curious as to about how much that was that you had delivered? not a full ton i would think-maybe 1/4-1/2 ton? love that rock and will look for it when doing my garden project. Thanks for inspiration!
@jbowerdel I almost choked! I didn't realize he was going to put some of them back. Hostas are CHERISHED where I live, and anyone digging them up needs to be prepared to answer many, many pointed questions from passersby. 😊👩🌾🌤
@@IRoYaILTY The are I'm in sells by both the ton and the yard and actually the 1/2 yard. I'm looking to do a project just like this and all I know is I have 320 square feet that needs covered guessing 3 inches deep. I have no clue how much I need!
After you dug out all those hosta clumps, I would have split them at least in half, or quartered. This would buy you much more time before the overgrown clumps start dying out in the center. Looks nice!
You did such an awesome job everything looks great I would suggest get rid of the round up that stuff is toxic and it gets in the soil most weeds will die just by spraying them with vinegar and if you don't want to use vinegar when you boil water for vegetables or anything or just boil the water itself and then dump it on the weeds the boil water will kill them without any chemicals thank you for all the ideas with the Rocks I plan on trying some of those
You make it look so easy. I'm about to send this to my husband to show him how easy it is. He's going to hate me - or you hahahaha I really like the rock combo of small to larger rock. The concrete look like you really laid cement. Good job. Look forward to more videos!
Nice job. I built a 40ft × 3ft sidewalk using this style rock going from my deck to the bridge out back. Put some stepping stones in and total cost was around $250
Thanks so much for doing this video. Ive wanted to do something similar but was unsure about the weed situation (considering I wanted it to look nice and neat with minimal maintenance). Im definitley going ahead with this now. Im going to check out your other videos too. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge. 🌴🌴🌴
Thank you. A year later the only thing that I may think about is using a fabric to separate the stones from the dirt so they dont sink into the dirt over time but right now it still looks the same as when it was installed.
I did the rock around my house last yr and I love it ❤️ also did it alone and yep I agree with the shoveling lol 🥵💪🏼 love what you did, it’s so nice and neat ❤️
@@tracyannbielhy9794 rock looks good for a few years, but only stays that way if there are no leaves or debris that can get into ti, after 3-4 years, it looks dirty and nasty, better to mulch imho.
Planning on hopefully building a big badass garage probably spring 2023. Remainder of 2021 and all 2022 I'm planning on saving like a fiend to get demo my current 1981 built garage and build AT LEAST a 1000 sqft... ideally 30x40 - 1200 sqft, big beautiful post frame, insulated, temp controlled garage..... in addition to redoing my backyard landscape. I'm thinking the bulk of the budget will be on the garage as I plan to do a vast majority, if not all the landscaping myself. Landscaping is pretty damn easy. It's just hard ass labor and extremely dirty - which I don't mind. All that pointlessly said..... every place I've lived has used rock instead of mulch. My parents growing up preferred rock to mulch. As a result - I prefer rock over mulch. That said.... everywhere I've seen or had rock it always had plastic underneath it and at every place you always had spots where the plastic would pop up and be exposed. Also...... every place even with plastic always had weed issues. So in my very.... VEEEERY early stages of planning this project out (18 months out likely) I've been thinking....... do you even need plastic.... or what I think is properly called "landscape fabric." I personally don't think you do. But I've never seen it done without it.... until this video. All i can say definitively is that even with it..... you still will always..... ALWAYS get weeds. And when you go to pull them that's usually what pulls the plastic up. You'll cover it back up but once pulled up once it always seems to creep itself back up either with more weeds or some other dark forces at work cause the plastic to rise, Haha. After showing your first project you did with no plastic... or "fabric" and not having any serious weed issues..... it's confirmed and I've made up my mind - I'm not using plastic.... ever again. I'll be willing to add another inch of rock to prevent weeds as much as possible and go 4 inches deep if I have to. Nothing is more annoying or ugly than seeing landscape plastic peeking out of your rock bed. I'm just not going to deal with it period. THANK YOU for posting this video. I at least now have something to fall back on for my reasoning to not use plastic. All that is the main reason for my loathing of plastic under rock..... but I've also always wondered how plants can survive with that shit pretty much blocking a ton of water from getting to them. I've never had issues with plants not growing..... but just always wondered.... would they be bigger? More vibrant without the plastic? I don't know. Again.... main thing is my loathing of seeing and having to re- cover exposed landscape plastic.
Great neat job done all by yourself & I love the paver work in that trash can space (and your father's fence work)! Will have my husband consider the pavers as our trash can rolls over rocks.
Couple things as somebody who does this for a living, I would put down ground cover. Especially overtime you will have much less weeds and is an extra bit of insurance that takes very little time to install. Secondly I would really avoid using preen or roundup. Very harsh chemicals that WILL be on your hands, boots, clothes, etc. no matter what you do. Also is dangerous to animals and insects. Personally it’s hard for me to willingly kill weeds with harsh chemicals knowing the repercussions to the ecosystem involved. I would suggest using vinegar, which is a natural weed killer that is much safer. Look for the cleaning version or even a stronger more concentrated version will yield the best results but even just normal vinegar will do the trick. Anyways looks great you do very fine work, and have great attention to detail.
I'm so impressed! I love rock and I also love hiding ugly things like garbage cans. Lol. Very nicely done. I wish I could shovel rock like that. I'd only be good at driving that little tractor around. Lol. Super handy!
Looks awesome! Considering replacing mulch with rock/gravel. I cannot stand weed barrier, what a waste of time, money & energy! 😮 l’m glad to see someone else using Preen, I love Tahiti stuff 😊TY for sharing ❤
I am highly impressed! Love how simplistic you make this. We are actually getting ready for a customer's job and I was debating if using landscape fabric or lay down over soil. I have myself dealt with where weeds will even pop up and then you trying pulling with fabric under and the fabric starts coming up with the weeds. Ugh so annoying! Quick question how many ton did you use there, looks like 1? Area approximately you are covering as well? How long would you say that took you? Once again very nice job! Just became a new sub too! 🙂
Can we just give a shout out to your dad for building you this fence and giving it to you? Take him out to lunch! Tell him how much you love and appreciate him. To keep it from getting too sentimental, follow with: Your RUclips channel watchers want him to show how he makes things for you. He has talent and a good heart!
what a great transformation, it looks so beautiful. Nicely done! I would like to do the same for my garden. Can you share what cost was to purchase the river rocks for your space?
Exactly what I needed to see. I have hostas to move and garbage cans to hide, amongst other things. Love how you did it with no fancy presentation or trying too hard. You got right to the point and didn't waste anybody's time. Thanks so much for sharing!
After a number of months of drought and triple degree temps here in Texas, I finally started gradually turning to Xeriscaping. I took my struggling ivy out that ran the length of my house and put down Canadian Large rocks which are in beautiful earth tones. Now, looking at it, I wish I had done it years ago. The ivy was nice, but, I have tons of trees and you can't get leaves out of ivy. If you use a blower, it sends the leaves deeper into the ivy, if I use a rake, I'm tearing off the leaves of the ivy. Now I have the stone down, I put two giant terracotta planters on top one with a palm in it the other I planted about 15 jumbo Caladiums in Florida Elise, and it looks just stunning. Little by little I'm adding areas of stones/rocks simply because I believe in conserving water, and you can always add decorative planters, or garden concrete statuary. You did a great job, it looks nice and neat with just enough color in the stones to make it interesting. About landscaper fabric, a landscaper told me it doesn't stop weeds because airborne weeds germinate on top of the fabric. I never thought about that.
Thank you for not adding music! You did a great job!
I agree - added background music is so irritating!
Came out awesome. Love people that take care of their property’s. Great job.
Next time you Dad is ‘bored on vacation’ please send him my way 👋🏽 Your project looks great!
I am a rockhound. I love decorating with rocks. You can place them in planters to keep moisture in. Also keeps the base cool only the top of the rocks get hot.
Wow, I’m Impressed! Your lawn is impressive too! It looks like a beautiful lush green carpet! You’re Hired!
The way that sand pours out looks unreal. Excellent job on everything!
I didn't just enjoyed this, I'm encouraged. Thank you. God bless you and family.
Looks great! I'd rather not use herbicides since they're terrible for the environment. Weeds always grow back so you have to continually apply herbicides. I think I'd prefer using a weed barrier or commit to hand weeding. Unlike mulch, rocks are more difficult to weed so that's the drawback to using them. But rocks look a lot better!
Pleasure to watch and gentle on the ears 🙂 thank you !
Thank you!
I'm seeing this video a year later. I love the layout of the gravel and hidden trash can... I couldn't agree with you more, this is completely "Gentle on the ears!" His calm voice and no loud crazy music. It's great! 👍
The other nice thing about landscaping with stone is you can use your garden torch and burn those weeds too. It’s so quick and easy
Looks nice. I like the look, texture and different colors and sizes of rock used. I have a thin strip about 15 inches by 20 feet between my garage, sidewalk, and Townhouse where I used riverrock and I spaced evenly, succulents and Malibu lights. It looks great and illuminates the sidewalk area.
Nice! I like how the trash cans are accessible but hidden, very functional and thoughtful design! Love those rocks, the colors are amazing!
I’m replenishing the front landscaping on my house with new river rock. The previous owners used river rock some 35 years ago, and they also used a plastic barrier. I’m replacing & repeating their original idea as shrubbery has become way too big & overgrown, have worn and the rock has settled well into the dirt surface. They, as well as me for the past 6 years, never bothered to remove fall leaves from the rock, so now the river rocks have settled into 35 years of muck, so to speak. I’m investing in a leaf blower and intend to use it several times throughout the fall and early winter seasons. Nice video, too, btw!
Did you use landscape fabric under the rock? Im wondering if I dont use it the rocks will settle into the dirt underneath without a barrier.
@@simd510 - I did use landscape fabric under the rocks and left small open spaces for small shrubs & the like. The size of my landscape rocks are about 1”- 4” diameter. And I use a leaf blower all the time, not just fall season.
Kudos to you 👍my experience with rock and landscape fabric was just the opposite.... Nothing but weeds 😡 so I'm tearing it out for mulch.
I know weeds will grow up through the mulch but it seems more manageable to deal with versus rock 🤷
I agree with Dad, this fence makes it looks nicer. Love this video, great job.
Use a preemergent, you wont have to deal with any weeds, either granular or a liquid. I have a rock garden in sun and shade about 3,500 sq ft, I switch up the preemergent from one brand to the next sometimes using using two in late winter to early spring, than one application first week in September. This works really well, just make sure whatever you use is meant for landscaping and not turf only. The cheap route is Preen all the time
What caught my eye here was the no fabric in the title. Bought a house 15 years ago with large yard areas and that had a stone/rock covered area with fabric underneath. Did not find the fabric barriers really did much, over time dirt settles in the rocks and weeds grow and the fabric inhibited the spread of the various plantings which you want to spread. Over time I have actually pulled up much of the fabric because it was easier to deal with the weeds and for greater spread of wanted plantings. Intuitively I would expect putting fabric underneath but my experience is again is do not bother. Also found fabric was not a water saver.
Fabric is a water trapper. Exactly what you don't need at the side of the house. Termites and ants love it.
I am going through that now with the river rock and the heavy fabric they used. I am 77 and this is back breaking work.
You make it look so easy. Looks really clean and organized
I like the different sizes and colors of the gravel that look good in your border of hostas. The fence was a fantastic idea for trash barrels. Well done projects!
Beautiful! I love the gravel and hostas! Low maintenance, yet still beautiful and clean looking!
Thank you!
I have a small area i want to use rock and came on to see if there was a video so yes, i got some good tips from this. I also like the " no music" . Thanks.
This is just what I was looking for. First time home owner and have some mulch areas that are just blah and wanted something a little easier and love the rock look. Very nice job! It all looks great!
Great Video, Just what I'm looking for,!
Me too that's why I'm here.
Attention to detail makes all the difference!! I just subscribed after seeing how clean and crisp everything looks. You gave me a couple ideas for my trash cans! Thanks for sharing with us.
River rocks are a nice look. I just used them to finish a drain alongside my deck and soh. Nice job spacing your plants also.
Great video style. Great voice and talking speed. Thank you for the great quality and effort you put in!
Much appreciated! I'm no pro and still new at this so that means a lot!!!
Fantastic job. I wish I could do the same in my yard. Subscribed💚
Well done young man.... you did a fantastic job! Really looks neat and well maintained. Love your dad's fence too! Great job you guys.
Thanks I really appreciate it
@@ThatTechTeacher427 how's the liquid faction without the fabric.
Love it! I'm planning on doing a rock gravel landscape with my backyard, and also, i like the idea for the trash bins as well. Thanks for sharing the video.
I’m on the process of redoing my garden… just got an idea on how I’d go about fixing my garden then. Thank you for sharing…. Hope to see more related videos in the future.
Absolutely beautiful. Your video inspired me to finally get my area done. Love it. Well done👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Everything in your house looks amazing.
Beautiful! I mulched the side of my house yesterday. After viewing your video, I will use rocks when I’m tired of the mulch.
Awesome finish! I love it! Tell your father, way to go on the side fence! He can build one for me, when he's bored again! LOL! I love hostas ❤️
I like watering my rocks also, I used river rock and flat stones to landscape and got rid of mulch, and used a weed barrier. I didn't think about Preen, but I will now. I use round-Up and also pull weeds. Here in DFW, it's the weed capital it seems!
your dad's fence is dope! would love to know how he built it as I aim to do the same thing (after the million other projects I need to complete around the house first ) You did a fantastic job on the stones and hostas.
Well done. I am going “steal” dad’s idea for trash can enclosure to hide my AC unit.
I did something similar with our garbage cans. Old owners had a bunch of skinny pavers for a mulch barrier that I pulled out. Laid those down under where the cans go to give them a platform. Then I had 2 scrap 2x6s for the posts and old 6' deck boards that I screwed on horizontally. Very clever idea!
Good idea
Love the river rock !! Your beautiful plants are great looking there!
Thanks!
You had me at “hide my trash cans”. If your dad is till bored, I could use some of that fencing lol. Well done and good call on the fence height.
😂 Thanks!
Me too!
I'm doing a similar project with old river rock for landscaping and pea gravel for a trash can area. You can use cardboard boxes or even newspaper as a weed barrier. Just cut it to the shapes you need and lay it down, dump the gravel on top and no more weeds. Works great and it's completely maintenance free so far!
How long is 'so far'?
A day?
A week?
A month?
A year?
IT looks Amazing!. I have a mess in my backyard. I have Gravel down and so many weeds grow through it. I have to push back the stone and add the fabric. But kudos to you for keeping the weeds down You just have o make sure you apply the Preen
Beautiful. Well done. My entire front yard is covered with different sized rocks no grass
Thanks for the video, Preen also makes a garden/vegetable pre emergent that's made from corn if you are worried about chemicals. Any Pre emergent will work in your flower beds as long as you don't try to grow from seeds.
Very nice fence. Your dad is a superstar. I can see where you get your building talent from. 🙂❤️👍
I enjoy watching your projects. Each are very sensible and are well thought out.
👍
Thank you very much!
I like the idea of using the level to spread the sand...and being able to see if the sand is leveled. That's a great idea👍And the hostas look great with the river rock good job👍
At first i was devastated that you were pulling out all those beautiful hosts!!! glad you reused them-could also have sold them to recoup some of the expenses really. love the final lock. you say the mini cobble is about $55/ton where you got it--curious as to about how much that was that you had delivered? not a full ton i would think-maybe 1/4-1/2 ton? love that rock and will look for it when doing my garden project. Thanks for inspiration!
Thanks! We have a flat delivery fee of $40
@jbowerdel I almost choked! I didn't realize he was going to put some of them back. Hostas are CHERISHED where I live, and anyone digging them up needs to be prepared to answer many, many pointed questions from passersby. 😊👩🌾🌤
The area I’m in sells by the yard and not the weight. I was very confused by that
@@IRoYaILTY The are I'm in sells by both the ton and the yard and actually the 1/2 yard. I'm looking to do a project just like this and all I know is I have 320 square feet that needs covered guessing 3 inches deep. I have no clue how much I need!
Really nice looking. And instructions are very clear. Also fun to see your fur baby watching you at the window.
Thanks, love to get help from the dogs.
Looks great! I like the concrete pavers. You made that look really easy.
Great job! You're voice is easy to listen to. 👍
Very nice! I would like to find a ready-made version of that hide-the-trash-cans fence.
Really great job. Looks tidy and interesting. Love the fence.
Nice job!!! I like the fact that you didn't use a weed cover and it came out fantastic.👍👍👏👏
Nice video. What people don't realize is the amount of work moving that rock..
You got that right!
Great video! I am putting gravel down and not using the fabric , I think it will be much better!
After you dug out all those hosta clumps, I would have split them at least in half, or quartered. This would buy you much more time before the overgrown clumps start dying out in the center. Looks nice!
Looks beautiful we also have river rock around our house and pool. Love how you hit your trash can
not sure why but i always love the look of rocks and stones. thank you for sharing. can't wait to do something similar to my new home.
How did you mount or install the fence to secure it ? Everything looks great and the explanation of it makes it easy to follow.
My question also
Me too! Love how it looks.
Me three?
Me four
Great video.
I like that you don’t put down A weed barrier I never put a weed barrier and I love it.
You did such an awesome job everything looks great I would suggest get rid of the round up that stuff is toxic and it gets in the soil most weeds will die just by spraying them with vinegar and if you don't want to use vinegar when you boil water for vegetables or anything or just boil the water itself and then dump it on the weeds the boil water will kill them without any chemicals thank you for all the ideas with the Rocks I plan on trying some of those
Thanks and ya I have become more wise to the vinegar solutions. That is a much better way to do it
Really like the clean look of the stones and fence. Great job, and love the dog face in the window...lol
I should try watering rocks in the future it looks like a lot of fun and is very satisfying😄
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You make it look so easy. I'm about to send this to my husband to show him how easy it is. He's going to hate me - or you hahahaha I really like the rock combo of small to larger rock. The concrete look like you really laid cement. Good job. Look forward to more videos!
Hosta’s are so hardy, you can take a knife and cut them into smaller plants. I’m always shocked at how much hostas cost.
I want your hostas!
Im trying black walnut mulchi hear it is the best for keep weeds from germinating
I wish i had the skill set to fo these projects. But i can watch your vids. Good job.
Great use roundup around your kids' play area.
Nice job. I built a 40ft × 3ft sidewalk using this style rock going from my deck to the bridge out back. Put some stepping stones in and total cost was around $250
The hostas were beautiful!
Magnificent. You did a excellent job what a difference that you made to the yard 👍
Love your pup in the widow at 4:31
Thank you for the idea of the fence to hide your trash bin. We keep ours in the garage and sometimes we don't have room for it. Thanks for this.
I like what you did to hide your trash cans I think that’s brilliant and simple.
Thanks I have to give my dad the credit on that one.
Thanks so much for doing this video. Ive wanted to do something similar but was unsure about the weed situation (considering I wanted it to look nice and neat with minimal maintenance). Im definitley going ahead with this now. Im going to check out your other videos too. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge. 🌴🌴🌴
Thank you. A year later the only thing that I may think about is using a fabric to separate the stones from the dirt so they dont sink into the dirt over time but right now it still looks the same as when it was installed.
@@ThatTechTeacher427 I had same thought, I will add fabric for thus reason. Thanks for the update & advice. 😊
I did the rock around my house last yr and I love it ❤️ also did it alone and yep I agree with the shoveling lol 🥵💪🏼 love what you did, it’s so nice and neat ❤️
Awesome good to hear and Thank you!
@@tracyannbielhy9794 rock looks good for a few years, but only stays that way if there are no leaves or debris that can get into ti, after 3-4 years, it looks dirty and nasty, better to mulch imho.
@@southbridgeforestHOA unless you're in an area susceptible to termites🙄. One size doesn't fit all. To each, his/her own.
@@L2HH2C412 lol I am in NC, we have termites and guess what, no issues. wood mulch does not attract termites, old wives tailes do not make truth
It looks great! Thank you for sharing.
That face in the window when you were were filming the finished rock placement is pricesless!!!!! 😂😂😂
Thank you bro! I have a smaller area to work with but now I know I can make it look really good.
Those paver's are beautiful! I've never seen anything like that?
Found them at lowes kinda liked them myself
Great job and a beautiful result, love the rock.
Agree on the "watering rocks".
Planning on hopefully building a big badass garage probably spring 2023. Remainder of 2021 and all 2022 I'm planning on saving like a fiend to get demo my current 1981 built garage and build AT LEAST a 1000 sqft... ideally 30x40 - 1200 sqft, big beautiful post frame, insulated, temp controlled garage..... in addition to redoing my backyard landscape. I'm thinking the bulk of the budget will be on the garage as I plan to do a vast majority, if not all the landscaping myself. Landscaping is pretty damn easy. It's just hard ass labor and extremely dirty - which I don't mind.
All that pointlessly said..... every place I've lived has used rock instead of mulch. My parents growing up preferred rock to mulch. As a result - I prefer rock over mulch. That said.... everywhere I've seen or had rock it always had plastic underneath it and at every place you always had spots where the plastic would pop up and be exposed. Also...... every place even with plastic always had weed issues. So in my very.... VEEEERY early stages of planning this project out (18 months out likely) I've been thinking....... do you even need plastic.... or what I think is properly called "landscape fabric." I personally don't think you do. But I've never seen it done without it.... until this video. All i can say definitively is that even with it..... you still will always..... ALWAYS get weeds. And when you go to pull them that's usually what pulls the plastic up. You'll cover it back up but once pulled up once it always seems to creep itself back up either with more weeds or some other dark forces at work cause the plastic to rise, Haha. After showing your first project you did with no plastic... or "fabric" and not having any serious weed issues..... it's confirmed and I've made up my mind - I'm not using plastic.... ever again. I'll be willing to add another inch of rock to prevent weeds as much as possible and go 4 inches deep if I have to. Nothing is more annoying or ugly than seeing landscape plastic peeking out of your rock bed. I'm just not going to deal with it period. THANK YOU for posting this video. I at least now have something to fall back on for my reasoning to not use plastic. All that is the main reason for my loathing of plastic under rock..... but I've also always wondered how plants can survive with that shit pretty much blocking a ton of water from getting to them. I've never had issues with plants not growing..... but just always wondered.... would they be bigger? More vibrant without the plastic? I don't know. Again.... main thing is my loathing of seeing and having to re- cover exposed landscape plastic.
Great neat job done all by yourself & I love the paver work in that trash can space (and your father's fence work)! Will have my husband consider the pavers as our trash can rolls over rocks.
Love this. Rocks Rock!! Now, young man, pressure watch that tired looking sidewalk. Huggin u from Texas.
Perfect brother, thumbs up. You hooked it up man Los Angeles
Couple things as somebody who does this for a living, I would put down ground cover. Especially overtime you will have much less weeds and is an extra bit of insurance that takes very little time to install. Secondly I would really avoid using preen or roundup. Very harsh chemicals that WILL be on your hands, boots, clothes, etc. no matter what you do. Also is dangerous to animals and insects. Personally it’s hard for me to willingly kill weeds with harsh chemicals knowing the repercussions to the ecosystem involved. I would suggest using vinegar, which is a natural weed killer that is much safer. Look for the cleaning version or even a stronger more concentrated version will yield the best results but even just normal vinegar will do the trick. Anyways looks great you do very fine work, and have great attention to detail.
Excellent job! I would power wash the sidewalk now to make it nicer! 😉
Looks really good. I am planning on something like that with the space in between the deck and the garage.
Hi, thanks for thid great informative piece, just wondering how is the fence attached at the sides and the base. Cheers
I'm so impressed! I love rock and I also love hiding ugly things like garbage cans. Lol. Very nicely done. I wish I could shovel rock like that. I'd only be good at driving that little tractor around. Lol. Super handy!
Looks awesome! Considering replacing mulch with rock/gravel. I cannot stand weed barrier, what a waste of time, money & energy! 😮 l’m glad to see someone else using Preen, I love Tahiti stuff 😊TY for sharing ❤
well done on this because i plan on doing this as well but different color rock..great explanation of what you did as well
Very practical and maintainable approach. Love it !
Thanks 👍 so far that is how it's working
I am highly impressed! Love how simplistic you make this. We are actually getting ready for a customer's job and I was debating if using landscape fabric or lay down over soil. I have myself dealt with where weeds will even pop up and then you trying pulling with fabric under and the fabric starts coming up with the weeds. Ugh so annoying! Quick question how many ton did you use there, looks like 1? Area approximately you are covering as well? How long would you say that took you? Once again very nice job! Just became a new sub too! 🙂
Can we just give a shout out to your dad for building you this fence and giving it to you? Take him out to lunch! Tell him how much you love and appreciate him. To keep it from getting too sentimental, follow with:
Your RUclips channel watchers want him to show how he makes things for you. He has talent and a good heart!
what a great transformation, it looks so beautiful. Nicely done! I would like to do the same for my garden. Can you share what cost was to purchase the river rocks for your space?
Looks awesome
.nice neat and clean .thanks for sharing!👍💙
Thanks for watching!