River Rock To Control Downspout Surface Drain Erosion - April 2024
Yesterday, I posted some photos showing how I used the "Lasagna Method" to smother some grass with cardboard and top-it with mulch to improve a foundation-adjacent garden bed on the side of our house. The goal was to raise up the soil level, smother out grass and improve the area looks-wise. But, that wasn't the only recent improvement that I completed over on that side of the house. While I was using gravel and river rock to level-out the pizza oven site, I decided to take a couple of bags of the River Rock to put to work by the downspout surface drain outlet. I've been wrasslin' with surface water on this side of my house for years - here's a post from 2020 where I talk about 'floating mulch' due to the downspout release . Over the years, I've seen the area erode and this Spring, I've attempted to address it in a few ways. First, by hauling over some of the excavated material from the pizza oven project to 'fill in' some low