How to Landscape With Bull Rock

Step 1

Remove wood chips and mulch from your existing garden bed. Use a rake and shovel to remove and discard the mulch or chips.

Step 2

Protect existing plants by creating windbreaks of large pieces of cardboard or place boxes over the plants. Spray weed and grass with a nonselective herbicide. Lay black plastic sheeting or cloth weed block in the garden bed and around the existing plants.

Step 3

Fill the garden with bull rock. Spread it around the existing plants and to the edges of the garden.

Step 1

Remove the sod from the pathway location with a sod stripper. Roll the sod up like you would with a rug and remove it to another location in your yard.

Step 2

Dig the soil from the pathway with a shovel to a depth of about 4 to 6 inches. Check the path with a tradesman level and remove or replace the soil in lower or higher areas of the path.

Step 3

Lay plastic sheeting or cloth weed block into the pathway. Overlap each seam in the sheeting or weed block by about 4 to 6 inches.

Step 4

Install metal edging or brick pavers along the edges of the pathway or leave the edges bare. Pour a 1-inch layer of sand in the bed of the pathway. Rake the sand until it lays level in the bottom of the pathway.

Step 5

Lay large, flat paver stones at irregular intervals, leaving 3 or 4 inches of space between each stone. Fill the spaces between the paver stones with bull rock.

Step 1

Fill the tops of container gardens and raised flower beds with bull rocks to match the bull rocks in your garden and pathway.

Step 2

Edge the sides of your driveway with bull rock. Remove 1 foot of sod from each side of the driveway. Remove about 3 to 4 inches of soil. Lay plastic sheeting or weed block into the excavated area.

Step 3

Fill the area next to your driveway with about 1 to 2 inches of sand. Pour bull rocks on top of the sand and spread to fill the area.