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How to make a dry river bed?

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Posted by DesertNewbie Phoenix AZ (My Page) on
Sun, Nov 21, 04 at 21:28

I have desert landscape in my front yard and want to put in a dry river bed. I have seen quite a few, however I don't know exactly the procedure for installing it. The rocks are rounded and leave gaps which will undoubtedly fill up with weeds. I have trenched for the river bed and need to finish this project ASAP. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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  • Posted by Shag z4 MT (My Page) on
    Sun, Nov 28, 04 at 20:40

This is a frequent question on Garden Web. Have you done a search? Here are the results of searching for "dry stream"

Here is a link that might be useful: Dry stream bed threads

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Well this is a bit late,but I just joined this forum so you'll have to take what you can get I suppose.!st your going to need alot of river rock large rounded 2&1/2 to 3&1/2 round and 1"round and pea.
Start w/ the large and make your skeleton along the sides and fill with other smaller rocks in like three different phases.

Working lg to small rock and placing some like they tumbled naturaly into the center of the bed.You need to make it look like it has a beggining point also.
If you build it tight and fill the spaces with pea then you wont have as much weeds,also I use a heavy duty landscape fabric under.
You say you have to finish??
You haven't yet begun.
If all you've done is rototill out a ditch,the real work still awaits,you cant rush art,if you throw it together to get it done,it will look that way.
Take your time this is not a progect for an impatient or hurried person to take on.That's all the secrets I'm giving out today!

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I have a slightly different question: How to make a wet and natural stream bed? I've been searching online for months for information, but have come up dry (pun intended).

I am trying to daylight a culverted stream in the back yard, but it needs to be natural as State permitting requires it (i.e., no fabric). What do I line the channel with? Gravel? Clay? How do I keep it from just running out all over the yard and creating a swamp?

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Frank - please start a new discussion so replies will go to you, not the person who started this one.

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