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Level Up Your Garden Bed with an Easy Retaining Wall



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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38 Comments

  1. Myra

    I wish you were close to Atlanta, me and my husband we are both useless when it comes to outdoor work, we need help🥺

  2. Thomas Dutton

    When I did my edging a few years ago, it was also exhausting from a leveling standpoint. I feel for you

  3. NickRobich4ud

    Looks great! But I’m sorry to say there’s no point of the fabric at the end. The mulch will break down over time and weeds will grow on top of the fabric which is what your trying to prevent with the fabric in the first place.

  4. DADADA

    This guy is the best DIYer . His examples are wonderfully simple and everyone can follow them so easily.

  7. Cory Wetherby

    The only difference I would do from what he is doing in the trenches before I start is I would dig it 2 feet deeper to put process gravel in. Because in time it will settle if there’s not a strong base under the retaining planter. Plus there is a easier way to set your base. you use two pipes that is an inch thick from the top to the bottom diameter . Use a laser level to level the pipes once they are leveled I would use a chipsstone and a very fine chip stone to screen and then you pick up your pipes and fill in the trenches with a chipsstone. Then you start laying your pavers and you can’t go wrong. I noticed to experience in the past 20 years I’ve been doing it and it’s the best way to do it. A lot of people don’t know about the pipes but I know for a fact I was the first one to do it before anyone else. Over the past 20 years I have showed a lot of contractors that do not know the secret and how much easier it makes it to lay wall block or pavers to do a patio.

  8. Gayle A

    Beautiful! Where do I get those? It's exactly what I'm looking for. Wish you were here…lol

  10. Country Boy

    The tumbled rocks/pavers you used look great. I have the standard manufactured pavers which are. . . . okay I guess.

  23. Kelly B

    After watching this video 3 or 4 times I finally feel ready to attempt a similar project out front. Thank you!

  24. melmicsim

    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?

  30. fonzi42

    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.

  31. S Hay

    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.

  32. Marcus Hacquebord

    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 🙂

  33. Taylor See

    @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?

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