Buying & Installing Pebbles/Gravel

[Yamyam13]

Hi All,
Dog has trashed the lawn so we've decided to make the beds deeper and have a very wide 'path' with stone pebbles.
Any tips on where to buy pebbles either 'high street' (B&Q, Homebase etc) and online?
Would ideally love to be able to pick up some samples from high street for a look.
And any big tips on laying them? I read it's best to lay down a membrane to ward off weeds etc.
Thank you!

No tips but watching in interest as we want to do some paving too!

I've heard (and has been our experience) that if you go the pebble/stone route the larger and rougher edge the better to deter cats using it as litter
If that fails then leaving a few cat treats on it each week we've found means they won't shit where they eat! Buggers keeping me as a food hostage 😀

Haha, we've laid golden gravel on our tarmac drive. Definitely get grid stabilisation-it's great and you need less stones. Is it fairly level?

@buckeejit

Haha, we've laid golden gravel on our tarmac drive. Definitely get grid stabilisation-it's great and you need less stones. Is it fairly level?

Oh ok, hadn't come across that option, will mention to DH. Yes it is level.

Thanks!

@tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz

I've heard (and has been our experience) that if you go the pebble/stone route the larger and rougher edge the better to deter cats using it as litter If that fails then leaving a few cat treats on it each week we've found means they won't shit where they eat! Buggers keeping me as a food hostage 😀

Ah interesting! Hadn't considered the potential cat toilet situation! Though actually we don't ever have cats or even foxes in our garden. Since the new fences went in and were made higher we don't seem to get any. And with our dog, and dogs either side (one particularly noisy, but that needs a whole thread of its own ) perhaps that puts them off too?

We have cats but they don't go in 20mm golden gravel-maybe the grids help

Builders merchant is cheapest option. Comes in 1 tonne and maybe half tonne bags.

1 tonne bag is 1 cubed metre. So if you want it, say, 5cm (2inches) deep, there are 20 5cm slices in a metre high bag, so the bag will cover 20sq m. 10cm deep will cover 10 sq m.

They’ll dump it on your driveway, maybe in a bag, maybe loose. So get your car out first, and prepare fora day of barrowing.

Have you already tried walking your dog on similar? It really hurts my dog’s feet and he’d walk through your borders instead

We got the builders merchant to hover over where we wanted it & cut the bottom of the bag so they spilled out. So much easier than all the barrowing