Installing a garden wall is a task that many gardeners would like to take on . In this case the wall is actually a planter around a new construction home. The overall length is 120 feet and is comprised of wall blocks that were purchased from a big box home improvement store. The article will take you through construction from start to finish so get your shovels out and lets get started.
STEP 1
The first step is to string a line along the wall area and then pull it tight and attach a line level to get your height in this case we wanted to go 2 blocks high so we took the height of the wall block 5 inches and multiplied by two which gave us 10 inches. We then added the height of the cap stone which would go on top 3 inches so the total wall height was 13 inches. Now that we knew the height of the wall we pulled the string tight and measured up 13 inches from the existing grade and leveled the string along the whole length of the wall. We now have one more calculation and that is the wall base. We added a 6 inch base for the wall to sit on so we dug a trench the whole length of the wall and measuring down 19 inches from the sting to the bottom of the trench. This would give us a 6 inch base plus 13 inches of finished wall total 19 inches.
STEP 2
For curves you can take a garden hose to get the shape you want. The tighter the curve the smaller the blocks you will need. You can still measure off the straight .string line to get the right depth with out having to run a string line for the curve .
Dig out the trench measuring down from your string line as you go to maintain the right depth. In this case the wall block is 8″ wide so the trench should be 12″ wide to allow for a little leeway on each side of the block. Once this is completed we can move on to step 3.
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