Pacific Northwest Gardening: Taming the wild garden part 2, 1 by Laurie1

Laurie1 wrote:
And here is the project about one week in - wall came down and we saved all the stones for rebuilding - steps and patio were all carted away. If you look at the grass area you can see where we lifted turf in preparation for cutting back the area - 8 tons of dirt and stone came out! and the level of the wall is now almost a metre higher - that is the kind of slope that we work on - almost a 1:15 gradient. The good news was that we cut back enough area that we ended up with lovely big chunks of sandstone, and enough of it to complete the new wall - we didn't have to buy in any and have left overs! (MINE! I do love good resource piles!) The bad news was that the area was so big we had to buy 4000 used bricks to cover the area - and we had to unload them into the field, and then restack them in the work area! But it is (she mewls hopefully) getting close to the guys leaving (I'll avoid the word finished).