CW's Back Yard Water Garden Begins!

[netvine]

When your done i hope you do some diy videos of what worked. Whether experience and or natural aptitude its impressive.

 

[GBBUDD]

When your done i hope you do some diy videos of what worked. Whether experience and or natural aptitude its impressive.

Scroll back he already has

 

[combatwombat]

Scroll back he already has

I’ll have to do like you once it’s all done and make an abridged thread with just the build details.

Also, I’ve changed my mind about this concrete. Total pain in the ass to work with. Don’t have a single piece that’s the same thickness in 2 or more corners.

 

[GBBUDD]

I got to bail you out again ??????????

 

[GBBUDD]

Set them all lower and relatively close to where you want them then pour a little concrete over them like 3" it will save a ton of work and money or it your setting rock just set eh rock into a mortar bed like cinderblock

if it's just for rock like that set the concrete then apply sand and then set the wall

 

[combatwombat]

I can make it work. Just learning the tricks. I think a mortar bed would ruin the look I’m going for. Gotta be dry stacked.

 

[GBBUDD]

make the mortar below grade. not to mention you cant stand back and see it your always going to be looking down on it for the most part

 

[combatwombat]

Urbanite retaining wall is done. That required quite a bit more effort than I thought it would. As usual!

 

[YShahar]

Looks cool! The old concrete looks a bit like granite (at least in photographs). It's going to look really good with some creeping plants to soften it up a bit.

 

[addy1]

Good job! Like the look

 

[GBBUDD]

Throw sound creeping plants even grass up there and you hit a home run

 

[bagsmom]

Theres a guy in south carolina that has made a great business from doing just that but with cedar limbs and stumps

Hmmmm - I might have to make a field trip to SC. Do you have information on him?

 

[GBBUDD]

Hmmmm - I might have to make a field trip to SC. Do you have information on him?

i DONT BUT I COULD GET IT MY local fish supplier sells them and he was telling me about how he'd make a personal delivery 5 years ago and today he was shipping all over the country. im guessing but a tree stump like my big one would probably be 3,000 ,just the little ones were a couple hundred

 

[combatwombat]

Throw sound creeping plants even grass up there and you hit a home run

Absolutely. I left lots of little pockets for planting. It’s a shady area, though, so not sure if there are grasses that will work.

 

[GBBUDD]

Theres plenty of light shade grasses . there are all kinds of plants that will grow there if not trampled which i imagine will be your biggest problem with little ones around