We had a great experience today. This was our first time using Mulch Mound, and I found the price competitive and the online ordering very easy. We are impressed with the quality of the mulch, too! It is covering well - a great value!
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One cubic yard of landscape rock covers about 162 square feet at a 2 inch depth, or a bit less if you go to 3 inches for better weed suppression. Measure your bed length by width, decide on 2 or 3 inches, then divide the square footage by 162 or 108 to get your yardage. Most Grand Junction front yard beds run 3 to 6 cubic yards, but a full foundation perimeter can run higher.
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We had a great experience today. This was our first time using Mulch Mound, and I found the price competitive and the online ordering very easy. We are impressed with the quality of the mulch, too! It is covering well - a great value!
One cubic yard of landscape rock covers about 162 square feet at a 2 inch depth, or a bit less if you go to 3 inches for better weed suppression. Measure your bed length by width, decide on 2 or 3 inches, then divide the square footage by 162 or 108 to get your yardage. Most Grand Junction front yard beds run 3 to 6 cubic yards, but a full foundation perimeter can run higher.
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We had a great experience today. This was our first time using Mulch Mound, and I found the price competitive and the online ordering very easy. ...
We had a great experience today. This was our first time using Mulch Mound, and I found the price competitive and the online ordering very easy. We are impressed with the quality of the mulch, too! It is covering well - a great value!
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The triple shredded mulch was great quality and just what we were looking for.
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Landscape fabric underneath is worth doing right the first time, since this is a decade long install and you do not want to pull rock back up in three years to fix a fabric failure. Steel or aluminum edging keeps the rock out of the lawn and out of the clay beds next to it. A lot of customers pair rock beds with a mulched planting bed elsewhere on the property, since rock and organic mulch solve different problems.
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Grand Junction's alkaline clay does not drain fast, so grade your bed with a slight slope away from the foundation before you lay fabric. If the bed sits flat or pitches toward the house, rock will just sit on top of standing water after spring runoff instead of shedding it. A 1 to 2 percent slope, barely visible to the eye, is enough to keep the base dry through our wet months.
The most common mistake we see locally is skipping fabric because clay seems solid enough on its own. It is not, clay migrates up through rock over a few seasons and you end up with muddy rock instead of clean rock. Woven landscape fabric, not the cheap spun kind, holds up against that clay migration and against the tumbleweeds and windblown seed that come through the valley.
If you are covering a large area, consider a two tier approach, larger rock or cobble along the foundation and downspout runs where erosion force is highest, and a smaller decorative rock in the open bed areas. This uses less of the pricier large stone while still solving the drainage problem where it matters most, and it reads as an intentional design choice rather than a cost cut.
Grand Junction sits at 4586 feet with alkaline clay soil that stays heavy and slick when the spring runoff comes down off the Monument, then bakes hard by July. Rock does not care about either extreme, it will not compact, wash out, or need amending like mulch does in that clay. A lot of River City yards use it along foundations and downspouts specifically because clay drains slow and rock keeps water moving away from the house instead of pooling in organic mulch. It also fits the low water look that makes sense at this elevation and with our short, dry summers.
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.
