The garden is a place where many people can express themselves. They can create beautiful flower beds and nurture different vegetables and fruit all year round. Here the will spend a lot of time and will be able to throw in all of their personality. There are lots of different accessories that you can add to your garden to give it some style and structure. One such accessory would be adding in a garden wall that can be used to create a boundary for the garden or a flower bed. Here are a few ideas on garden walling and building your own stone garden wall.

The first thing that you need to do is to check with your local building inspector and council that you are actually allowed to build a wall in a certain spot that you have designated. Often the community will have codes that will restrict your plans so you need to check on this first.

You will next need to get about 300 lbs of stone for every two and a half cubic feet of wall that you build. The width of the wall need to be about a third the size of its height so that means building a three foot tall wall a foot wide.

You will then need to dig a trench to use as a foundation. This should be twice as wide as the wall and about six inches deep. You will then need to fill in the trench with cement or gravel.

Once you have managed to do this and get all of the necessary materials together you will then be able to get building your wall. You should look to put the biggest and flattest stones at the base of the wall and then build up the body with angular and medium sized stones.

When your main wall has been assembled you should top it all off using the last of the flat stones. If you find that you need to alter the shape of any of the stone then do so using a chisel and mallet. Finally, fill in all of the cracks and crevices using the last of the small stones.

These are just a few steps on making a stone wall for your garden.

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