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c/albuquerque-homeowners•abbyr96abbyr96•15d ago

My neighbor said to skip the gravel layer for my new xeriscape garden

He told me last spring that the extra drainage wasn't needed here in the valley and would just wash away, so I just used a thick layer of mulch over the dirt. After our big monsoon rain, the whole bed washed out into my driveway and I had to redo it with the gravel base. What's the one piece of yard advice you got that totally backfired?
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noah387
noah38714d ago
My buddy had the cardboard thing happen too, it made a weird crust and his plants just sat there looking sad.
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clairem81
clairem8115d ago
What about advice to use cardboard under mulch? It killed my soil and nothing grew for a year.
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