I contacted Mulch Mound for #57 river rocks and it was easy and fast to get a delivery right before the holiday weekend. Stone was delivered as promised and place exactly where I asked. Excellent service! I will be ordering mulch next!
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Plan on 2 to 3 inches of decorative gravel, where one ton of three quarter inch rock covers roughly 100 square feet at 2 inches deep. Pathways and driveway areas need 3 to 4 inches over a compacted base.
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I contacted Mulch Mound for #57 river rocks and it was easy and fast to get a delivery right before the holiday weekend. Stone was delivered as promised and place exactly where I asked. Excellent service! I will be ordering mulch next!
Plan on 2 to 3 inches of decorative gravel, where one ton of three quarter inch rock covers roughly 100 square feet at 2 inches deep. Pathways and driveway areas need 3 to 4 inches over a compacted base.
Use our free gravel calculator
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I contacted Mulch Mound for #57 river rocks and it was easy and fast to get a delivery right before the holiday weekend. Stone was delivered as pro...
I contacted Mulch Mound for #57 river rocks and it was easy and fast to get a delivery right before the holiday weekend. Stone was delivered as promised and place exactly where I asked. Excellent service! I will be ordering mulch next!
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From the time I placed the order to the delivery it was quick and professional. I will highly recommend and will use them from now on.
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Try Our CalculatorMeasure each rock area in feet and sketch odd shapes as a series of rectangles and triangles rather than guessing. Do not forget the narrow strip between sidewalk and curb and the side yard run to the gate, which together add hundreds of square feet on many Bakersfield lots. Enter a 2 to 3 inch depth, and remember stone is sold by weight in some sizes so we will convert tons to coverage for you.
Add steel or concrete edging to keep stone out of the lawn and gutter, and pick up weed fabric and a few boulders as focal points. Many Bakersfield customers order mulch at the same time for the planting pockets inside the rock field.
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Install stone in the cooler months. Moving several tons of rock by wheelbarrow in a Bakersfield July is genuinely dangerous work, with heat indexes that send people to the emergency room. October through March gives you comfortable mornings and lets the new landscape settle before summer. If you must work in summer, start at dawn, quit by ten, and keep the rock hosed down since sun heated stone will burn bare hands.
Grade before you gravel. Bakersfield lots are flat enough that water tends to sit rather than run, and a rock field with a low spot becomes a mosquito breeding puddle after the rare winter storm. Establish a consistent fall away from the house of at least a quarter inch per foot, compact the subgrade, then lay fabric and stone. Fixing drainage after several tons of rock are in place is miserable.
Leave generous planting pockets rather than rocking the entire yard wall to wall. Cut openings in the fabric and set drought tolerant plants like rosemary, lantana, red yucca, and desert museum palo verde, all of which thrive in Bakersfield Zone 9b heat. The plants break up the glare, cool the surface, and keep the yard from reading as a parking lot, while still using a fraction of the water a lawn demands.
With 6 inches of annual rainfall and increasing pressure on Kern County water supplies, more Bakersfield homeowners are converting thirsty turf to rock and drought tolerant planting. Decorative stone never needs replacing, will not blow away in a valley windstorm the way light bark does, and shrugs off the 105 degree afternoons that fade everything else. It also solves a specific local problem, which is that our sandy loam turns to fine dust in bare areas and tracks into the house all summer. Along driveways, side yards, and the parkway strips between sidewalk and curb where nothing wants to grow, gravel is often the only thing that looks good year round. Properly installed over weed fabric, a stone bed can go a decade or more with nothing but an occasional rake and blow off.
