PREVIEW...CD-ROM and SUBSCRIPTIONS

RETAINING and TERRACING SLOPES

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You can retain levels in several ways...and I'm going to show you all of the worthwhile methods.
Sloping ground is very difficult to use, unless you keep sheep! To create flat, useable levels (terraces), you have to retain the land.
The greater the slope, the more work you have to do to create some flat land to sit on, or to garden.
Unfortunately there's no quick, easy way and the best ways are hugely expensive if you've a lot of retaining to do.
Here we are creating a Patio Terrace on a small hillside.
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PLEASE NOTE...some of the methods for retaining and terracing require the building of stone walls...details can be found in: "LANDSCAPING...WALLS, NATURAL and FORMAL".

This is the same garden...you may also have to retain land beside steps, as we did here.

More of this and other methods for retaining the sides of steps can be seen in..."LANDSCAPING...DO-it-YOURSELF STEPS both NATURAL and FORMAL".

This looks like a fairly gentle slope to begin, but if you look to the right, you can see that it gets steeper and steeper.

Part of this project was to create a flat area of grass next to the path on the left.
To do that involves the laying of a foundation and building a natural stone retaining wall.
Just to extend the flat area of path out for the grass to 10' requires you to build a wall to create an effect like this...you can also do it with a rock garden.

This picture is taken from exactly the same spot as the last. The straight line to the left is the original path.
First lesson...if you create a flat area like this on a slope, you create a XXXXXXXXXXXX. As you can see...well, you can see, but not clearly enough, so...