Pea gravel and pavers

Good tip. I'm definitely not sold on it being pea gravel. I don't know that I have a preference as far as aesthetics other than the fact that I'm tired of not wanting to be on my patio because the weeds look terrible. I figured it'd be a battle with the gravel kicking up on the pavers. My other concern is keeping grass out of it when I cut/weed eat.

Did you go with a weed barrier and then sand and then gravel?

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I have used this on our stone and crushed granite path and it works great. It holds the gravel in place pretty good. So much so that I can blow leaves and other debris off without blowing out the pebbles.

Look at decomposed granite

Do the large pavers and plant dwarf mondo between them.

I sprayed a heavier dose than they require and it has been almost a year now. We do not have a lot of rain and its under a big oak tree. Not sure how it would hold up with lots of rain or in direct sun. I will need to reset the stones, repack, an spray again this spring.

I use egg rock which I think is just a big pond pebble. I used the very small but got too many weeds to keep up with. The egg rock is good bc when you get weeds you just move a couple rocks and pull the weed and put them back. They don’t pack together and create places for seeds to germinate.

Another thing to consider is using paver base rather than sand. For the same reason as above.

Last thing is I use roofing underlay paper like tyvek under the rocks.

It rains so much in BTR that weeds will eventually be a problem in a gravel path but less troublesome than bare soil. The larger the gravel the easier it will be to keep clean and the less scattering about. A base of landscape cloth is needed to keep the gravel from slowly sinking down into underlying soil.

Places like Jim Stone generally have a greater variety of materials to select from. Shipped-in gravel by the bag can get expensive. If you pick crushed limestone you may have to watch soil pH adjacent to the covered area.

Have fun.