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Here in New Mexico gravel is much preferred by homeowners to bark mulch. It's pretty common to replace entire lawns with gravel. When we do we put down some quality Dewitt weed barrier and then spread the gravel. I think it's great stuff. Installing gravel without weed barrier is a waste of time. Unless you like the look of weeds and grass growing through your yard.
And as far as "if you've ever had to replace it, you'd never install it", we've replaced entire front yards that were graveled. They had shoddy black plastic which tore (of course) so we raked out the gravel, pulled out the old plastic, laid new Dewitt and spread the gravel again. It was a lot of work, but so what? The customers pay for it.
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