Trash Defense

This past weekend we focused our attacks on the front yard...still. The battle is not quite won, but we are closing in on the enemy. The enemy, by the way, is the trash that blows down our street and is left by the thoughtful kids who buy candy at the corner store. In order to defend our yard and new plants, we had planned a while ago to build a stone wall. This would also help to level our yard and retain some of the dirt, but that is incidental.

First, though, Adam finished the stone walkway from our front porch to the driveway.


View from the driveway.


Pretty fancy work.


Reagan was in charge of laying the stones in front of the larger bluestone slabs (but Adam helped).

So onto our defense walls...we used the same flat stones as in the pathway to make most of the wall, but as "fence posts" we used some of the larger, irregular stones that Adam dug up from the yard when he was making the too-big holes for our trees (at least some part of that operation was useful).

We dug up the front of the yard, set the stones in place, and poured a little bit of concrete at the base to keep the stones in place.

Then we put the dirt back on top to fill it in and covered it back up with mulch. Hopefully this allows for a nice long curing time for the concrete?

Overall, this front section of wall only took us a couple hours (with help from the neighborhood kids, of course).

And we're done for the time-being...who knows when we'll be able to finish, but at least we've protected that little section of the yard from the invasive trash in our neighborhood.