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Background

Not long ago, I had a shed installed in the garden for a workshop. The garden sloped down, so an area had to be dug out, creating a step.

So I decided to build a retaining wall with a paved area.

The wall was built with reclaimed local gritstone backed by blue bricks.

The idea is to have a bed on the other side.

The vertical joints in the wall were kept free of mortar with bits of corrugated cardboard to allow drainage

The blocks of stone were joined together using regions of mortar and concrete, enough to give adequate strength but leaving spaces which were filled with a half and half mixture of topsoil and sand in which to grow plants on the wall surface.

The cunning scheme

The problem is how to insert the into the wall.

The idea is to get seedlings established in cardboard tubes and insert them into the wall.

I purchased a box of 200 tubes sold for making bee hotels.

The tubes needed to be inserted into holes in the mud/sand filled regions which had not been recorded, so test holes were drilled to locate them.

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