Hello fellow DIY'ers,
I'm looking to do a bit of work to our front yard that has been very much forgotten about since we built our house a few years ago. I've been mulling over possibilities/designs/materials whilst weighing up costs/avoiding need for council planning permission/my own significant lack of skills in landscaping over the past few months and i think I've settled on a design (see rough pics) and using besser blocks as the material.
For the square shape garden bed in front of the window, i was thinking approx 700mm high from ground level at side of the porch - my first question is; given the ground slopes up do i need to dig out the perimeter of where the besser blocks will be layed to be level with the lowest point? Or can i do a stepped sort of approach to work more with the land? Or will that compromise the integrity of the wall?
For the raised garden bed running parralel to the side fence, my aim is to keep most of the existing hill there to avoid having to dig out copious amounts of dirt and put a full on retaining wall there. This garden bed will be about 7m long. This little hill does get muddy easy as water runs through from our neighbours. So is it worthwhile putting in drainage in? Or will planting out this area help ease the muddiness? I will again run into the issue of sloped ground too. Any suggestions or input would be most appreciated! Hoping to keep this a cost effective upgrade 🤞
