Garden Soil Delivery for Las Cruces, NM

New Mexico Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Las Cruces, NM. Base course is the local name for road base here, and it is the compacted layer that drives, parking pads and shed bases sit on.

This is Chihuahuan Desert basin and range country. Caliche often sits within a foot or two of the surface, so what you put down has to suit ground that takes almost no water.

Delivery to Las Cruces and the Surrounding Area

You order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want a hand sizing the load.

Choose a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the material on site in one pile. The driver does not spread or place it, so plan where the pile should land before the truck arrives.

Las Cruces sits in Dona Ana County, and delivery covers the county and the surrounding area. That includes Sunland Park, Anthony, Santa Teresa, Vado and Hatch.

Materials for Las Cruces Projects

Decorative rock and ground cover do a lot of the finish work on Las Cruces yards. Beds, dry creek beds and open ground all take a different material, so start from the project rather than the color.

Beds, Borders and Ground Cover

Rio Grande River Rock is rounded stone for decorative beds, borders and splash aprons under canales. Large River Rock is the cobble size for dry creek beds and drainage swales.

Natural Pea Gravel is 3/8 inch rounded stone for walkways, dog runs, drainage beds and xeriscape planting. It stays loose underfoot, so it suits ground cover rather than a firm walking surface.

Driveways, Paths and Patios

For a driveway, start with Base Course as the compacted layer, then top it with Driveway Gravel on a long rural approach.

For a path, patio or courtyard, Crusher Fines pack to a firm walkable crust and are sold by color across New Mexico. Stone Screenings bed pavers and flagstone and fill the joints.

Drainage and Erosion

Drain Rock goes in French drains, dry wells, foundation drains and splash runs where monsoon water has to go somewhere. RipRap armors arroyo banks, culvert outlets and dry creek headers against flash flow.

3/4 Crushed Rock is angular stone for drainage beds, drive surfacing and drip strips against a foundation. 3/8" Crushed Stone works as fine drainage, pipe bedding and a topping course over compacted base course.

Soil, Sand and Fill

Top Soil is screened soil for lawns, tree wells and bed prep over thin alkaline ground. Garden Soil fills raised beds, which is how most gardeners here get around a caliche layer instead of digging through it.

Fill Dirt raises grade and backfills before a base course lift goes down. Mason Sand handles block, brick and adobe work, stucco coats and paver joints.

Washed Sand beds and levels flatwork.

Ground and Conditions in Las Cruces

Across the Chihuahuan Desert basin and range, desert basin fill is sand, gravel and silt washed off the ranges. A hard caliche layer often sits within a foot or two of the surface.

Caliche and crusted desert soil take almost no water. A monsoon cell can drop an inch in an hour, and nearly all of it moves across the surface and down the bajada into the arroyos.

That is why an under-built base shows up fast here. Water sheets across bare ground, finds the edge of a drive or pad, and starts pulling material out from under it.

Erosion comes from arroyo and bajada flash flooding through the monsoon, sheet flow across bare desert pavement, and wind driven sand and dust across the basin floors. Armor the places where water leaves your site.

Work runs year round in Las Cruces. Summer heat and the July to September monsoon set the schedule, not winter.

This is the mildest ground in the state. Las Cruces sits between 3,900 and 4,500 feet and takes only light overnight freezes, so heat, sun and salt matter far more than frost heave.

Frost depth runs as little as 6 inches here, against a 12 inch statewide minimum footing depth, and the city building official sets the figure.

Order Base Course and Decorative Rock in Las Cruces

Base course is the compacted layer that drives, pads and shed bases start from, and it is the local name to order by. Decorative rock, crusher fines, drain rock and soil fill out the rest of a Las Cruces project.

Order online and have it tipped on site.