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Dry Stone Wall
BrodieP
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Hello all,
New subscribe to GW, new to the forums and, truth to be told, new to gardening really!
We moved into our house about 3 years ago but had so many projects indoors that we're really just getting stuck in to the garden now. We've made some plans and drawings and have an idea what we want to do....best laid plans and all that.
The back garden is over 3 levels and the bottommost level is 'held in' by 3 foot breeze block walls, topped with a 3 foot fence. We'd like to create a sort of raised bed here in the bottom corner - so the side and rear breeze block wall would form the side and back of the bed, and the pretty bit at the front will be made from granite rocks - a small drystone wall, if you will. We were thinking maybe 1 foot high - it's not Hardrians wall or anything like that, and might actually look to extend this across the whole of the bottom of the garden from one corner to the other (it's just gravel there at the minute - we've popped some planters in to break it up and add a bit of colour in the short term.
We've collected the granites rocks from a friend (hard work!) but they were in a pile in the shade so some are really grimy and black looking. Some gave loads of more on them but we quite like this and wouldn't look to clean those! Two questions:
1) What can we use to clean up the dirty rocks?
2) Any tips on building a small drystone wall?!
New subscribe to GW, new to the forums and, truth to be told, new to gardening really!
We moved into our house about 3 years ago but had so many projects indoors that we're really just getting stuck in to the garden now. We've made some plans and drawings and have an idea what we want to do....best laid plans and all that.
The back garden is over 3 levels and the bottommost level is 'held in' by 3 foot breeze block walls, topped with a 3 foot fence. We'd like to create a sort of raised bed here in the bottom corner - so the side and rear breeze block wall would form the side and back of the bed, and the pretty bit at the front will be made from granite rocks - a small drystone wall, if you will. We were thinking maybe 1 foot high - it's not Hardrians wall or anything like that, and might actually look to extend this across the whole of the bottom of the garden from one corner to the other (it's just gravel there at the minute - we've popped some planters in to break it up and add a bit of colour in the short term.
We've collected the granites rocks from a friend (hard work!) but they were in a pile in the shade so some are really grimy and black looking. Some gave loads of more on them but we quite like this and wouldn't look to clean those! Two questions:
1) What can we use to clean up the dirty rocks?
2) Any tips on building a small drystone wall?!
Thanks in advance - and apologies for the long post!!
Brodie
Brodie
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Have a look at these links for how to build a stone wall
https://www.thespruce.com/building-stone-retaining-walls-2131135
https://morningchores.com/how-to-build-a-stone-wall/
Thank you for the web links as well - doesn't look too complicated.....but we'll wait and see...!!!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Best,
Rose
Thank you for the input guys, especially the info - greatly appreciated from this amateur!
I did a little drystone wall workshop once where we built a very low temporary wall in a group and it was great fun so enjoy! I also look forward to seeing the results