Today I ventured into a new world. It’s called Rare Earth Landscape Materials and as I walked around I definitely felt like a foreigner exploring interesting new lands.
My reason for going is that I want to upgrade my garden plots with some sort of ground covering. Since wood chips are verboten (due to flammability issues), my landscaper friend suggested I check out the possibility of using rocks or gravel.
The sheer number of options was the first surprise. The price per yard was the second (this stuff is not cheap).
A very nice woman employee gave me a kind but rather remedial lesson on how to calculate the number of square yards (or, more likely, square feet — my yard is small) of gravel I will need, since math has never been my strong suit.
She also explained just how heavy it is, requiring a seriously big truck to transport it. Definitely not my Hyundai Elantra!
Altogether very interesting and quite fun.
