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I have quite a large area (used in the main for parking cars) that is gravelled.
Over the years it has got very threadbare and ground in .

Most of the original material is pebbles (between 1 and 2 inches in diameter ) that are kind of buried in sand at this stage.
I am thinking of buying extra gravel now to smarten the area up and wonder what size would be suitable?

Would a mixture of larged sized gravel and small sized gravel work -or do I have to go for one size ideally ?

If a mixture is possible how does that work over time?
Does the smaller size eventually get buried by the larger (they would be sitting on a softish ,sandy substrate) - or is it the other way round?

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Smaller gravel will migrate to the bottom so keeping it all the same size is the way to go. After laying new gravel, don't forget to 'pack' the gravel down.

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kellys_eye wrote:
Smaller gravel will migrate to the bottom so keeping it all the same size is the way to go. After laying new gravel, don't forget to 'pack' the gravel down.

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