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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At a 2 to 3 inch install depth, one cubic yard of rock covers roughly 162 square feet at the shallow end of that range, less as you go deeper. Measure your bed length and width, multiply for square footage, and divide by 162 to get a rough cubic yard count for a 2 inch layer. For anything tighter, like a narrow foundation strip around a David Davis Mansion style older home, round up rather than down since rock is a one time install.
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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!
At a 2 to 3 inch install depth, one cubic yard of rock covers roughly 162 square feet at the shallow end of that range, less as you go deeper. Measure your bed length and width, multiply for square footage, and divide by 162 to get a rough cubic yard count for a 2 inch layer. For anything tighter, like a narrow foundation strip around a David Davis Mansion style older home, round up rather than down since rock is a one time install.
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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!
I recently ordered from mulch mound and was thoroughly impressed with every aspect of the experience. The entire process, from placing the order to...
I recently ordered from mulch mound and was thoroughly impressed with every aspect of the experience. The entire process, from placing the order to delivery was seamless and efficient. The mulch arrived exactly on time, and the quality exceeded my expectations. The color was rich and consistent, and I received more than enough to complete my project with proper coverage and packing.
Customer service was equally outstanding. Communication was clear, and the team was responsive and professional throughout. It’s rare to find a company that delivers both a high-quality product and excellent service, but mulch mound did just that.
Highly recommended, and I wouldn’t hesitate to order from them again.
I couldn't be happier with the speed and quality of the mulch delivery service of Mulch Mound. Every detail from ordering, to communication with on...
I couldn't be happier with the speed and quality of the mulch delivery service of Mulch Mound. Every detail from ordering, to communication with on time delivery, to perfect product placement was amazing. I needed more and I got it within 2 hours! I'm never doing this with bags again.
Landscape fabric underneath is what keeps this a decade long install instead of a weed patch by next summer, so budget for it if you don't already have it down. A steel or aluminum edging strip keeps the rock from migrating into the lawn, especially useful where clay soil shifts a bit with freeze and thaw. Some customers layer a decorative border rock along the edge and a different size fill rock in the field for a cleaner finished look.
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Lay landscape fabric before the rock goes down, always. Skipping it means every wind blown leaf and stray seed lands directly in the stone and starts composting into a growing medium for weeds within a season or two. With fabric underneath, the rock stays clean and the weeding job that would otherwise eat your whole Saturday every spring basically disappears for years at a time.
The most common mistake is piling rock too deep thinking more is better. Beyond 3 inches you're just burying stone under stone and wasting material, with no added weed or drainage benefit. Stick to the 2 to 3 inch range, it's plenty to block light to weed seeds and let water drain through to the fabric below without smothering anything nearby.
Rock does not feed the soil the way mulch does, so keep it away from beds where you're growing anything that wants organic matter, shrubs, perennials, anything with real root needs. It earns its keep instead along foundations, under downspouts, and in strips where nothing is meant to grow, areas where a wood mulch would just break down and need replacing every year anyway.
Bloomington's silty clay loam holds water and compacts hard, which means beds along foundations and downspout runs tend to stay soggy after the spring rains that run through here into May. Rock over fabric solves that by giving water somewhere to drain instead of pooling against your siding. With a first frost around October 4 and a fairly long growing season after, homeowners here are used to mulch fading or washing out by midsummer, rock does not do that. It just sits there looking the same in July as it did in April, which is why it shows up so often against the brick foundations common around town.
Landscape rock is stone chosen for how it looks as much as what it does. River rock is smooth and rounded, decomposed granite is fine and packs firm underfoot. Both are sold by the cubic yard for beds, borders, paths, and dry creek beds.
River rock stays loose and rolls, so it suits beds, borders, and drainage runs where it can sit in place. Decomposed granite compacts into a firm surface, so it suits paths, patios, and anywhere you will walk or roll a wheelbarrow.
Spread river rock 2 to 3 inches deep over landscape fabric so it stays put and weeds stay down. Lay decomposed granite 3 to 4 inches deep, wet it, and compact it in lifts for a surface that sheds water instead of rutting.
