Level Up Your Garden Bed with an Easy Retaining Wall

How to make a raised garden bed retaining wall, an easy DIY landscape project.
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Installing a retaining wall in a garden or around a raised garden bed is a great way to define your outdoor space. Raised planters in the garden add a place for us to grow vegetables this summer as well. Using tumbled stones for the retaining wall makes it look great. This is an outdoor DIY project that really levels up our landscape.

[gambit]

Ok, watched this 3 times, getting started ordering supplies, wish me luck! 😅

[drraymond]

Great job, and thanks for showing some of the struggles you are useless but planning is everything!". Pro tip: it helps tremendously to lay your fist row upsidedown with the tumbled stones, as the bottom is flat. This makes leveling easier and also gives the second row a flat-to-flat surface for the glue up. After that the rest of the wall will layout easily and be level because your foundation is set.

[SchubertAloysius]

Now this is the good side of the internet. Hardworking people putting their efforts, knowledge and skills to help or educate others to be fruitful. Thanks bro!

[phillhart]

Really helpful that you showed the places where you had problems. That helps others with the learning curve (or literal "curve" in this case). Nice job.

[anonymoususer]

Thank you for a wonderful video! This is hands down the best video I have seen! It was thorough and detailed in a brief presentation. I am a single, mid 20s woman and many people said I would be unable to undertake such a project on my own. You made it manageable!! And, I get to now enjoy a beautiful yard. Thank you for empowering people like me through your clear and detailed advice!

[cjbarber]

Great video, helped me to do my own flower bed. But to other viewers, check your paver base before purchasing. I used Home Depot’s and it had 2-3inch rocks, brick chunks and I even found a nail.

[calvinsao]

I just want to say thanks to you! What you have demonstrated and your instructions are really doable, and I and my wife spent a week to build a three-tier retaining wall. This is our first time to diy a retaining wall.

[JoeBurby]

Man, watching you is like watching Stacey David make modifications to cars! So informative and descriptive, showing everyone that they can do it!

[elaineteut]

Our yard slopes up in the back and it was a pain to mow, so my husband and I built a garden just like that and it turned out so nice. The rose bushes, Aster, Poppy plant and Lilies are doing beautifully. Love it.

[nectros]

Great video! I have a new construction house and I've dug up everything from concrete waste to plastic water bottles in my clay-filled yard. I'm not looking forward to digging my foundation for a wall like this.

[apsey]

I have never seen anyone sponsored by home depot, but you are the perfect one to be! I can appreciate the work that goes in here... especially during the months where the bugs come out. Already worked for maybe 20 mins outside and have 6 bug bites from early spring. Great job!

[pcken]

This dropped at the perfect time, we literally purchased a similar brick to test in our next project. Great information and seeing the process from start to finish, challenges included will be very helpful. Thank you!

[jesusgarza]

I just start my business mowing and a lady did asked me to do a works just like this one !! Thanks god that I found this video it’s going to help me a lot !! Gob bleed you man for sharing this!!

[gersonvazquez]

such a great video! Don't understand how 1.4 million people can watch this and only have 22k likes. Makes no sense! Thank you for sharing your expertise!

[nikkilight]

Your video held my attention like no other landscaping video has before- very clear explanations and I love your positive attitude!

[cg]

PRO-TIP for leveling - Use Water = lubricant. Water with shower mode all paver base and sand then leveling becomes a Liquid Dream....do not over do it. Also, I like to set my block out and hose it down as well - a clean block is a happy block.

[sharazar]

Turned out great. I have had a stack of wall block sitting for about 2 years waiting to be made like this but have not had the energy to get started.
I want to do it myself but the thought of my back going out after has keep me from starting.
I need to try this year. The video makes it look easy

[jcepri]

GREAT job. That wall looks amazing. I really appreciate how you showed the problems and how you dealt with them vs. these "antiseptic" project videos where everything goes just perfectly. I always encounter issues, so that was really validating.

[klg]

Great tutorial and explanation on the leveling / curve installation. One trick I learned from a land scape guy is to use a dead blow mallet as the regular rubber mallets bounce on the bricks and don't shift them enough. Th dead blows have weighted heads but are still soft. They wont cause chips o cracks.

[amyebert]

Your video was very detailed and helpful. My husband and I watched it several times and we were able to put up our new retaining wall / flower bed. Love how our front yard turned out. I have been wanting to do something and found your video. Finished in 3-half days. 🙂 Thank you, thank you! Great job!