How to Landscape With Bull Rock

Garden Beds

• 1

  Remove wood chips and mulch from your existing garden bed. Use a rake and shovel to remove and discard the mulch or chips.

• 2

  Protect existing plants by creating windbreaks of large pieces of cardboard or place boxes over the plants. Spray weed and grass with a nonselective herbicide. Lay black plastic sheeting or cloth weed block in the garden bed and around the existing plants.

• 3

  Fill the garden with bull rock. Spread it around the existing plants and to the edges of the garden.

Pathways

• 4

  Remove the sod from the pathway location with a sod stripper. Roll the sod up like you would with a rug and remove it to another location in your yard.

• 5

  Dig the soil from the pathway with a shovel to a depth of about 4 to 6 inches. Check the path with a tradesman level and remove or replace the soil in lower or higher areas of the path.

• 6

  Lay plastic sheeting or cloth weed block into the pathway. Overlap each seam in the sheeting or weed block by about 4 to 6 inches.

• 7

  Install metal edging or brick pavers along the edges of the pathway or leave the edges bare. Pour a 1-inch layer of sand in the bed of the pathway. Rake the sand until it lays level in the bottom of the pathway.

• 8

  Lay large, flat paver stones at irregular intervals, leaving 3 or 4 inches of space between each stone. Fill the spaces between the paver stones with bull rock.

Other Bull Rock Uses

• 9

  Fill the tops of container gardens and raised flower beds with bull rocks to match the bull rocks in your garden and pathway.

• 10

  Edge the sides of your driveway with bull rock. Remove 1 foot of sod from each side of the driveway. Remove about 3 to 4 inches of soil. Lay plastic sheeting or weed block into the excavated area.

• 11

  Fill the area next to your driveway with about 1 to 2 inches of sand. Pour bull rocks on top of the sand and spread to fill the area.