Work On The Garden

The concrete retaining wall you see being built in this picture was not planned. The 3 foot high retaining wall collapsed the other day. We needed to do something urgently because it partly supported the back of our cottage behind out house (the rear of it is seen in this picture). Have you ever tried to get home depot to deliver 3 pallets of concrete mix together with rebar on the same day? I thought it would be a long shot but they came through like champs! The builders promptly poured a one foot deep concrete footing, let it dry and then started laying the concrete brick on top of it, threaded though the rebar that was poured with the footing. Once this dries, concrete will be pured inside of the hollow concrete bricks to form a very strong 3 foot wall. Once all of this is complete, we'll repave the garden using the salvage bricks we saved from our old kitchen chimney stack and leave a 2 foot wide trench along the concrete wall to fill with soil for a small garden. All of this is expected to be done in about another week.