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Our Easy Method to Clean a Pea Stone Patio of Winter Debris Including Pinecones and Pine Needles/Rock Garden and Yard Cleanup
We love out outdoor space. We have a nice lot surrounded by woods, a pool and a pea stone patio and pergola we put in two years ago. We live in the Northeast so the canopy that covers the pergola during the summer months is taken down and stored during the winter months. This leaves the pea stone exposed to all the debris falling from the surrounding pine trees. Pinecones, when whole, are no problem to remove but when thousands of dried scales fall onto the patio and become mixed into the pea stone it is EXTREMELY difficult to clean. Not only is it messy looking, the scales can be…
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How We Assembled Our DIY Backyard Pea Stone Patio
This is how the patio began. Our yard was a large blank slate which was good and bad at the same time. It took a long time to decide where to start digging in and transforming the outside to a more livable space that was user friendly. There are so many options but one thing I wanted to do was keep the cost down. Outdoor spaces are the best, but in the Northeast you don’t really get to use them year round so we’re choosy about what we invest in. We had the picnic table in that same spot for a long time, but found we didn’t use it much.…