@Leftwood, Rick ....
This may sound like a strange question, but where do you buy the gravel/grit ? I live in a remote town in the mountains of northern California and I want to back fill the area where I goofed when I first made that bed by using compost in the planting area.
I am moving all of the plants out and want to bring the top of the bed back up to grade so that I no longer have a major low spot ... more like one half of the bed. I have some pure clay soil which the previous owner had imported for the lawn out in front of my home. I took out about three feet of lawn and stored the dirt in the back. I want to amend it with grit/rock/granite or whatever non-organic material that will work and use it for my back fill.
I am going to have to take a trip down the mountain to get the materials. All of it will have to be hauled up to the house pad level ... major labor on my part.
I, too, apologize, if I am posting to the wrong forum. Once I get those beds at grade and planted, I do plan to create a rock garden both down on the street level in front of my home and on the slope in that takes up most of the back yard. The slope will not need to be amended, but I do think I am going to have to add smaller rocks and planting material in with the boulders dumped down on the street level. Other projects.
Smiles,
Lyn
