How to Landscape With Glass Aggregate

Walkways

• 1

  Lay out the pathway you are going to landscape with glass aggregate by laying two garden hoses on the ground. Adjust the hoses so they are parallel. Once you have the walkway design the way you want it, sprinkle flour over the tops of the garden hoses to mark the path. Remove the hoses.

• 2

  Dig the pathway approximately 4 inches deep using a shovel. Place 2 inches of crushed gravel in the pathway. Smooth the gravel with a rake. Use a hand tamper to compact the gravel into position.

• 3

  Cover the gravel base with landscape fabric to prevent weeds from growing through.

• 4

  Cut plastic or metal landscape edging to fit along the edge of the walkway using a utility knife or tin snips. Use the anchors that come with the edging to fasten it to the ground so that the top of the edging is just barely showing above the top of the ground.

• 5

  Cover the landscape fabric with glass aggregate. Rake it against the landscape fabric. Try to create as level a surface as possible. Use the hand tamper to compact the glass into the walkway.

Flowerbeds

• 6

  Prepare the soil for planting flowers by removing rocks and large pieces of organic matter. Use a garden trowel to loosen the soil. Add fertilizer, if necessary.

• 7

  Cut landscape fabric to fit over the flowerbed.

• 8

  Cut X's in the fabric for plants. Plant flowers in the flowerbed.

• 9

  Cover the landscape fabric with glass aggregate. Add enough recycled glass to cover the landscape paper.