Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
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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. Measure your bed's square footage first, then divide by 162 to get a rough cubic yard count, adding a bit more if you are running the deeper 3 inch depth for weed suppression. Most Midland front-yard beds run 2 to 4 cubic yards, but wider foundation borders or downspout aprons can push higher.
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Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
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. Measure your bed's square footage first, then divide by 162 to get a rough cubic yard count, adding a bit more if you are running the deeper 3 inch depth for weed suppression. Most Midland front-yard beds run 2 to 4 cubic yards, but wider foundation borders or downspout aprons can push higher.
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Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will de...
Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
Placing an order online was so easy. Delivery was on time. When the driver realized we had a newly poured driveway they erred on the side of cautio...
Placing an order online was so easy. Delivery was on time. When the driver realized we had a newly poured driveway they erred on the side of caution and opted not ti drive in it. The company even sent me a message explaining that call. Would recommend!
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Landscape fabric underneath is what makes this a true decade-long install instead of a rock bed that grows weeds through the caliche within a season. Steel or aluminum edging keeps the rock from migrating into turf, which matters more here given how flat and open most Midland lots are. If any part of the bed borders plantings that need real soil feeding, keep a mulch zone separate rather than mixing the two.
Midland's caliche layer sits close to the surface in a lot of yards, and if you try to bed rock straight onto it without fabric, the rock will slowly work down into cracks in the hardpan over a couple of seasons and you will find yourself topping off a bed that looks thinner every year. Lay fabric first, pin it well, then place rock at the full 3 inches if the bed sees any foot traffic or blowing dust, which almost all of them do here.
The biggest mistake we see in Midland is treating rock beds like mulch beds and expecting them to feed nearby shrubs. They will not, and rock actually pulls moisture and nutrients away from plant roots at the edges. Keep a soil or mulch buffer around anything you want to keep alive long term, and reserve straight rock for groundcover zones, foundation strips, and downspout paths where nothing is trying to grow.
Pairing rock with a mulched planting bed on the same property is common and efficient, since one delivery of each material in the same trip covers both zones without two separate scheduling trips. If you are edging a large area, buy your steel or aluminum edging before the rock delivery, not after, so you are not shoveling rock back off the lawn to install a border you forgot.
Midland's sandy caliche drains fast and holds almost no organic matter, which is exactly why rock outperforms bark here, it does not decompose into a soil that never absorbs it in the first place. With summer heat pushing soil temps up fast and wind off the Permian Basin flatlands blowing loose mulch into fence lines, a settled rock bed stays put. It is the standard choice against foundations and along downspouts where Midland's occasional gully washer needs somewhere to shed water without eroding a bed. Zone 8a means no freeze heave to worry about, so a properly graded rock bed installed once should not need touching for a decade or more.
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.
