rocks on swale

[boxofdelights]

So you know how there's always someone on Craigslist who regrets their landscape choices and would like you to come and scoop up the rocks they spread? This weekend there was someone offering hand-size rocks, lots of them, not a mile from my house. So Neal borrowed his friend's pickup and we picked up three loads of rocks and spread them on my new swale. If they're not all gone next weekend we'll go back for more, but this was as much as we could manage in one day.

Comments

[misbegotten]

Oh, that looks great!

[malkingrey]

That looks like the patch of ground beside our new front steps where the carpenter is recommending we put in gravel to direct the water away from the basement. "Swale" . . . yet another word, like "soffit", that I never needed to know until now.

Ah, the joys of owning an older house!

You have leveled up several

[jesse_the_k]

boulder-heights in swale management