Sick of the mud now

[inkedlady]

I've had enough of mud in the garden now I'm thinking of sand and pea gravel is this the best solution ? Plz help lol

 

[TheReadyBoys]

Yeah, either one should do the trick.

 

[Amiga]

Perhaps muck some of the mud out, put down landscape fabric to slow down the mud from pumping up through the gravel, and lay gravel on top of that. It would need to be at least 3 or 4 inches, I would say.

Or, just sand on top. I have a combination - one area more smooth pea gravel, next to it more sand - I am still experimenting.

But one bit help is that section of the pen has a 2% slope, more or less, into a small channel that takes the dump water and splash down to a garden bed.

You should see the plants in that bed!!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I did this in key areas, I laid down landscaping material[very important] or gravel will get incorporated into the mud, then I laid the river rock small round stones on top at about 2" deep. works great so far.

 

[duckins]

Landscape paper great idea wish I'd thought of that before laying 15 bags of rock. You can guess what my rock looks like.

 

[new2ducks]

they don't eat the gravel? I wanted to put some pea gravel down in areas but I was afraid they might eat it