How To make A New Flower Bed
We used this same idea about 11 years ago when we built our home. We have used bricks to make borders for all our planted areas in our yard. My husband said he has even bumped one with the riding lawn mower and the border didn't give way so they are durable.
Here's our problem area as we got started with the project. We have red clay. It is very hard and unpleasant to use for gardening. My husband dug up the area by hand with a pick ax and shovel.
After I got the bricks moved to the area where we were
going to be using them, I needed to get them
placed just right. This is the most tedious part of the project.
You need to put the person who has
an eye for detail on this job (I'll volunteer).
The better the bricks look now, the better they will
look when the project is complete.
You will need a hand trowel to help
even the soil up under the bricks.
A little scoop there and a little scoop scraped away here.
The bricks need to be about a finger apart.
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