Seed or chips?

Need some advice, where I've got my stacks there used to be a pool. So no grass was there before I started stacking. Should I rake up the chips and spread some grass seed, or just leave the chips and weed wack the few things that will come up? I made the stacks wide enough for the mower to sneak through , hopefully. Any advice or experience would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

Chips. You’re weed whacking either way.


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I like chips and sawdust. Anything is better than mud.

 

I agree with the comments above.
Only things that worry me are the ground bees that like to build in the holes that the mice and other small animals leave behind

 

I have a neighbor with a tree business and small animals and snakes like the piles.

 

If you can get it cheap enough....a yard or two of pea stone...Put a layer of weed block down though...I know..I'm crazy...

 

I use chips where I process. Spray and kill what comes through.

 

I haven't quite decided if I will continue to process there or not. Thought about moving to a different spot. Kinda why I thought about seeding it.

 

There's often several inches of sand under an above ground pool.
Not much might grow there anyway unless the sand was removed.

I would plan on processing there again until not processing there is a sure thing.
But I tend to make less work for myself.

 

leave the chips and weed whack. Mower kicks up some serious dust. Let what ever grows grow.

 

I’ve had the same dilemma, no pool involved but freshly placed dirt to level up the area and put my stacks on, I left room between the stacks so I can pull the splitter in with the four wheeler, mow and even back a pick up in between them , although that is really tight, should have left even more space. I seeded it pretty late last fall and it sprouted just before winter. But working there through the fall and winter it’s pretty well-stomped down to bare dirt I’m not sure how much is going to regrow. I work for a gravel company so I can get free gravel but I’m starting to think just chips and a Weedwhacker

 

I don’t have bees to worry about but didn’t really want to build another nesting area for more bugs to move into the stacks, ants, centipedes and spiders etc.

 

Hey Buddy... Lol I wish that was the case for me, we only need about 40 loads of gravel at our place to fix the drive way and expand it like we want.

 

I could hook you up, but the freight might be a deal breaker. $5.10 a loaded mile

 

Hmm, $3750 a load, $150,000 for 40... It's always the shipping and handling that gets ya lol