Disclaimer - I am not a gardening mined engineer. It's partly why I have this problem, but I'm learning as I go.
There's small patch of grass between the left of my drive and the properties boundary wall. A year ago, I dug it up and covered it in (what I thought was) weed management fabric, and then covered it with some sandstone gravel chips. It looked lovely.
Alas, the weed fabric was not weed fabric, and grass, weeds etc grew through. After a year of inaction, it was horribly overgrown, and needed to be addressed. So I cut the grass back as much as I could with a strimmer, and then started lifting it all back up.
The problem I have is that the original stone chips were embedded/encased in the greenery that had grown around it, and while I've separated them to a good degree, there's still a large amount of loose grass, roots, dirt etc that linger in the chips. I want to separate the two so that I have nice clean stone that I can put back down.
Basically I want to get it from this:
To this:
Current plan - spread it out on the ground (per photos above), let it dry out, and leaf blower the stuff away. The downside - I live in Ireland, not exactly famed for it's sunny weather.
Apart from picking it all apart by hand, does anyone have any suggestions how I can speed this process up?
There's small patch of grass between the left of my drive and the properties boundary wall. A year ago, I dug it up and covered it in (what I thought was) weed management fabric, and then covered it with some sandstone gravel chips. It looked lovely.
Alas, the weed fabric was not weed fabric, and grass, weeds etc grew through. After a year of inaction, it was horribly overgrown, and needed to be addressed. So I cut the grass back as much as I could with a strimmer, and then started lifting it all back up.
The problem I have is that the original stone chips were embedded/encased in the greenery that had grown around it, and while I've separated them to a good degree, there's still a large amount of loose grass, roots, dirt etc that linger in the chips. I want to separate the two so that I have nice clean stone that I can put back down.
Basically I want to get it from this:
To this:
Current plan - spread it out on the ground (per photos above), let it dry out, and leaf blower the stuff away. The downside - I live in Ireland, not exactly famed for it's sunny weather.
Apart from picking it all apart by hand, does anyone have any suggestions how I can speed this process up?
Spaldingski
). The effort to get it off the ground with all of the roots intertwined was something else. Nature truly is a force to be reckoned with. 
