Maintaining your home requires several tasks, and one of these tasks is improving the beauty of your property. The exterior of your home should receive considerable care and attention.
Improving your landscape helps boost the lure of your home. In this regard, you have the option to choose the correct material for your yard. For beginners, grass and gravel are the two best options.
Check out the overviews below to be able to choose the right one for your yard.
Gravel is made of small rocks of several mineral makes such as dolomite, limestone or quartz. It also has two main kinds like washed stones and manufactured rocks. Washed stones are smooth, oblong or round in shape, which makes it more decorative.
The most popular is the pea stone, which has different shades like yellow, crimson, brown and off-white. Man-made rocks have sharp edges because of the crushing method they underwent. They are durable since they can support weight of cars. Granites are the most popular man-made utility gravel. Others include creek, rock bank gravel and pay dirt.
Prices of gravel range from $50 to $80 and $25 to $50 per ton. A ton can cover up from 30 to 100 square feet of land. Gravel can be used in many ways as fillers for driveways, pathways or plant beds. Most homeowners in cold-climate opt for putting gravel in the yard since it can help in maintaining the correct temperature and moisture of the plants. It is low in maintenance like clearing off debris and removing underneath weeds.
Grass is usually classified in two categories known as warm-season and cool-season grasses. These have subtypes like fescue, bluegrass, bentgrass and ryegrass. They can grow in places where the temperature of the soil is 65 degrees or below. Centipe, bermuda, kikuyu, St. Augustine, evergreen and Zoysia are the favourites in the warm-season subtypes.
Each kind of grass has particular blade thickness and texture that can be sharp, fine or coarse and grows from low to high. While all grasses are green, they vary in lightness or darkness and some even become brown on extreme weathers.
Having a grass in your garden could cost you from $16 to $20 per ten pounds, depending on the ground yard you wish covered. If you prefer instant lawn, sod, nets, rolls or grass in mats would be perfect for you. The sod roll cost is 14 to 50 cents for every square foot, depending on the variety and quality.
Before you decide on using either grass or gravel, you must take into consideration the preferences of the family. Having small kids around require a more secure yard for them. Grasses is surely a good way to ensure that your little kids playing in the yard will not hurt themselves since grass are softer and more docile compared to gravel and sand.
You should also consider the location of your home and the weather. If you are located in an area that is prone to flooding, heavy rains and even storms, it is preferable to use gravel that could prevent flood instead of grass that could make your yard turn dirty and muddy.
After determining the attributes or grass and gravel, decide on the right one for your yard and consider your schedule, style and needs.
