How to build a garden wall to cover deteriorating retaining wood wall?
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Mae5918513
It is just a section. It gets a lot of fun so would be ideal to grow veggies or plant sunny soaking perrenials. What is best. Cinder block of wood landscape ties?
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Your landscape ties might be the easiest to install but you will need to have space to tie the ties back into the ground or slope behind it. This will prevent it from sliding forward over the years.
My hubby and I discovered a long time ago {we've been gardening & landscaping together for over 52 years} not to use any used railroad ties in a garden or yard. The solution used on the railroad ties is 'nasty' stuff that will put dangerous chemicals into the ground and everything that grows anywhere near the ties. That said, I'd use cinder or concrete blocks to 'fix' the deteriorating wall. I'd use Flex Glue to put the blocks together, overlap them so the seams do not match on the tiers; after the wall is built, drive a steel post down through every-other empty hole in the blocks, then fill all the holes with concrete and smooth off the top with a trowel. This will prevent any moisture from getting inside the blocks and will also keep the wall from sliding forward. We have one retaining wall we built this way 22 yrs ago and it still looks perfectly straight. Good Luck.