How to make a raised garden bed retaining wall, an easy DIY landscape project.
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Installing a retaining wall in a garden or around a raised garden bed is a great way to define your outdoor space. Raised planters in the garden add a place for us to grow vegetables this summer as well. Using tumbled stones for the retaining wall makes it look great. This is an outdoor DIY project that really levels up our landscape.
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Great video and thanks for the tips.
It be nice if they said how much it cost.
What is the width of the initial trench prior the rock/boarder being placed
Beautiful, clean look! Great work!
Great curve appeal.
Too much blah blah
This was amazing to watch! Thanks for sharing!
After watching this video 3 or 4 times I finally feel ready to attempt a similar project out front. Thank you!
Great video. I wanted to put a flower bed in front of my porch & this was perfect to get me going.
Also, maybe lay flat topped stones for the lower levels & top them off with the rough 9nes?
Looks very nice. I wish I could find some pavers somewhere for free
What type of grass do you have growing in your yard?
awesome video dude! giving me motivation to do some landscaping
Excellent tutorial!
Recovering engineer got me lol
Just wanted to reach out and saw thank you for this video. It really helped me update and complete the garden bed and retaining wall at home. It turned out great. Thank you for the awesome content.
Where there's only one course that should have been dug down deeper to allow for a second course. Although they would be not seen, they give a better base and allow the top course to be glued down.
Learned one useful thing from this video at least (wonderful otherwise though). Which is that the world has 'wire levels'. Gonna grab myself one right away 🙂
@14:10 could you please explain the trench/stone concept a little more? What is the point of these additional rocks? If they are behind the wall, how do they contribute to drainage?
Why do you need paver base AND paver sand?
This actually helped me tons. Thank you for posting this video.
Great job.well done you. Greetings from Ireland.
These videos always making digging look so easy…I start digging and just hit rock hard clay 😂
You didn,t tell us how to make 90 degree ? Because the straight line is not enough !!
This is what i think , l am not expert
Very nice
I just want to say thanks to you! What you have demonstrated and your instructions are really doable, and I and my wife spent a week to build a three-tier retaining wall. This is our first time to diy a retaining wall.
Great video! I am doing this build soon for someone and this was a great refresher and "second opinion" of sorts to think it through.
Great Job! I've been hesitant to tackle this project because I have stucco. Would you build a retaining wall against stucco?
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As a community, let's start posting the actual time it took to complete at the end!
Great video. I just bought and built my wall using these; in which here in Seattle area only to be found at lowes! The struggle for me is precision of perfection when it comes to level which I shared your frustration with the tumblestone roughness, I actually also made a jig with my rotary laser and story pole with reader to take elevations of each block along with the levels, once you get an eye for it you are good to go.
A good way to settle and level your blocks is to lay a 2×6 on top of the row and use a sledge hammer like a tamper to bang on the board
Good video! I'm using many of the same tools and materials, to include the tumbled stone bricks. Sure wish I would've found your video first! I'm 4 courses in, and realized I didn't follow the inset pattern!! I've been backfilling the gaps with gravel behind the wall. Darn.
Thanks Brad. This was helpful. I built a raised bed garden in the back yard by simply laying down retaining wall blocks with no prep whatsoever. Simply laid the stones on the grass and kept going. It's not the pyramids, but it's held up okay after 4 years. I'm going to do something similar with an area along the fence line where we want to grow tomatoes. So why is your video helpful if I'm going to ignore most of the advice in it? MOST isn't ALL. The prep work in particular looks promising. Part of doing a job is knowing what you can safely get away with not doing. The problem I've had with laying stones on grass was that over time, the stones sink into the earth. I need my stones above ground to retain the soil I'm building from composted stuff from my neighbors' yards. 'Okay', in this case, is good enough. Perfect is overkill. Have a great day!
What was the cost of the wall?
I did this exact same wall about 2 years ago. No experience. No idea what I was doing. I couldn't find a video that exactly explained what to do so I kind of piecemealed a few videos together. If I had had this video, my life would have been a lot easier 🤣🤣
Good job but that's quite expensive with all the materials used
Perfect I am doing it. Just hope not to die in the progress. Thank you.
Awesome job!!!! Are you for hire/help? 😂
Wow, I just stumbled across this video. I am literally planning on doing this exact same thing in a couple weeks. I already bought the stones a couple months ago. I got the same stones but only for the curves. I got the rectangle ones for the straight lines. After I got them I thought of using only the other ones and it would look more natural. But I didn't feel like taking all of the rectangle ones back. lol. Anyway, this video gave me some info I needed. Thank you!
I happened to be using the same blocks on my project and your video helped me with the curve. I would not have thought to start at the curve. Thanks for the tips!
The wall looks fabulous. I love the darker mulch too because it gives good contrast to the greenery. Well done!
That is a knot used in tatting😁
What about curved walls using Brussel dimensional stone.. rectangular?
How long did this take you?
Put bottom stone face down which leaves a flat side up to sit next row
Great video! I appreciate the effort you take to explain things so clearly. The fire pit videos are going to come in handy in a few months!