On 28/08/2013 09:02, Tim Watts wrote:
On Wednesday 28 August 2013 08:46 wrote in uk.d-i-y:

I want to make some of my garden maintence free.

What size gravel should I use 10mm or 20mm ?

I have heard that the 10mm is particually prone to letting weeds grow
Jim G

Gravel sucks appearance wise and gets everywhere (esp 10mm) -

Can you afford some funky chippings? For some reason the 30-40mm size seem
less prone to problems. And you can use different colours.

People make four basic errors with gravel.

10mm is more like shingle & migrates.
20mm is & looks much better.
You need 'edges' all round to stop migration.
You need at least 40mm depth.

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Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk