This is EXACTLY what I want to do in front of my house! The tree that was planted when the house was built is still very healthy and the landscaping encases it, but there are SO many roots that I can't dig down to plant any landscaping plants around it. I want to build this exact same thing to give it some depth so I can plant in it. Thank you!!
I truly believe that the ability to work is one of God's greatest blessings! To do so with an attitude of JOY while striving for EXCELLENCE is truly the very best way to tackle any work! Beautiful job on the stone border - it's going to be amazing filled with plants!!!
Fabulous job guys. I’ve spent the past 4 years working on the landscaping for our home situated on a rocky hill, TRUST ME……… “Work like this ain’t easy”. 😎
You absolutely inspired me young man to make a bed such as this for my medicinal herbs. Thank you for the tutorial. You certainly did bless his family. You get a gold star! 🌟❤️🇨🇦
Thank you so much for sharing this. Just researching to learn more, I want to border a spot in the yard for berry bushes. Learned a lot from this! Thank you for sharing your joy of this work as well as your grateful and humble spirit in doing your best. You are making the world a more beautiful place both on and off line!
I’m a novice “waller” and have been doing a lot of research before i atempt my first wall. All research say to “not” put the long face of the stone as facing. Best to put the length of the stone in this creating the strongest possible wall. It is tempting to put the long face out because u cover more distance, however, this practice promotes a weaker wall. Very respectfully, DS
Yep, working on my first retaining wall now. However, from a physics standpoint, you don't need your wall to be wider than it is tall for the sake of integrity. Since this wall is angled backward, the stones are very flat, they're using a load of back-fill rather than, say, heart stones, and the wall is only marginally taller than it is wide at the tallest point, you're better off choosing the widest and nicest faces just like they did.
Love the tutorial and your positive attitude! Showed me I don’t need a bunch of fancy equipment to build something pretty. I think I’ll go ahead and pull the trigger on this project now. God bless!
Just need to be careful about what weather zone you live in. I live up near Canada on the US boarder in Ohio. We always dig down below the frost line about 40”. If there is a slope that allows drainage be installed at bottom of trench, we install black 4” drain Poole, cover with coarse gravel and use a plate compactor to remove voids. Next we take a lazar level and level all the footer heights. If on a long slope we will stair step footers below grade and stack the stone a little further below grade in those areas. We do all this because the walls tend to heave in the winter and over time then walls can become unstable. Looks lien these walls are being installed further south.
Nice wall! It will be there until they want it moved.... which should be forever 😊 it reminds me of the one I had built around the front of my house. On the higher end we planted a nice white Dogwood tree. I love it! I’m sure the homeowners are going to LOVE theirs too
Thank you for sharing. Great video. Excellent workmanship. I have a question - I am reparing the rocks surrounding an old bed... these rocks are not all "flat" and I wondered if there is a modified method - perhaps that uses dabs of cement in between crevices of the stones to fortify the structure given the lack of uniformity of thickness of the stones.... have you any experience that you can share on this? The preexisting layers of rock around a garden are coming unhinged after many years... my thought was to remove the rocks, grade the ground, and start fresh using the same rocks.... perhaps there is another video for this type of technique that you can suggest for achieving a high quality outcome? Thank you!
Hi Michael! Thank you for the comment. Yes for irregularly shaped stone I recommend the following options 1. mortar between the stones 2. masonry cement glue between stones 3. just try to stack them again and use soil between where there are gaps. preferably more clay-ish soil. Try to puzzle piece them so they don't fall. also, stack so that the wall leans inward. Do one layer at a time and then backfill. this will give it some strength. God bless and happy landscaping!
Just a question -- there's no need to dump sand into the joints and gaps of each layer of rock to keep it from shifting over time or will it remain stable without it?
I've been landscaping 25 years in California. Built just a few dry stack flagstone walls like this. I just realized I was doing it wrong! I always backfilled with just native soil. Using gravel as you pointed out gives it strength and stability. Adding many more years of enjoyment. Great job young man! I'm excited to do my next stone wall like this.
Ben & Ethan: you guys gave me some great insights into my DIY project, it would be cool to see what it looks like now. I’m curious to know how you keep weeds from growing between & around the rocks?
Where can I find guys like you in the Detroit area? My stone borders are falling apart and I want to sell my house. I’m too tiny and have been sick so I can’t do it alone.
Great work! Beautiful! I had started on my smaller project then took a break & found your video! Needless to say, I realized I was doing things all wrong! Stopped where I was and headed to the home store for some gravel. I do have a question about what to do if your area is uneven, as in, one side is about 15 inches lower. I'm guessing I need to start at that side & work my way around so the top layer of stone is level. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
Hey Maria! I’m glad it was helpful. Yes I’d work on that lower side first so that you get it to where it’s approximately level. Then you can easily work from that base…or second option would be to keep the layering slanted. I hope this helps!
Great job. I have a similar, but much smaller planting bed our landscapers put in front of our front porch. Now, after 10 years, the soil is washing out one side. I’m not sure how to fix without dismantling the whole side nor do I know if it’s something best left to the professionals to repair or if it an easy diy fix. With mature Hostas, Ivy, Creeping Jenny, weed barrier and bark mulch, I don’t know how to go about fixing without damaging the plants. Any thoughts?
Well…you’d need 3-4 layers if you’re using 4 inch thick stones. And you would make sure each layer is set back about 1 inch to help with soil retention. Hope this helps!
Loved watching you both do this, for what me and my neighborhood here would consider, the good ol' fashioned way.... you even just used a piece of stone to do the job of what would have been done with a tool made for tamping :) Came to your video cause wife n me are wanting to build 1-2 foot high rock walls around the oak and maple trees in our yard. So would have a circular rock wall around the tree, but its difficult finding videos that pertain to our type of job that we're wanting to do. Well keep up the good work guys!
Glad it was a blessing! Ps. Just be sure if you build those walls up that the soil inside doesn’t come up on the trees. That could stress them. Blessings!
Hi Benji, Thank you for your tutorial. I am planning on constructing my own flat stone walls around my own landscaping. What did you use for the fill gravel? I was considering 3/4 inch minus gravel.
@@gardenguychannel I ended up purchasing 3/4 gravel. Hoping to start the wall this weekend or next week (need the rain to stop). Wish me luck. Stone pallets and gravel are delivered and waiting!
Just measure the area you want to do. Then measure the average length of the stone (Take 5 pieces, measure each one and then divide by 5 to get an average length). Divide the length of area you want to do with the average length of the stone. Measure the thickness of the stone. Then multiply the thickness you want. So if you want it 1 foot high and the stone is 2 inches thick it would be 6 pieces thick multiplied by the number you get from the total length of area. You'll never have the perfect amount but you can get pretty close.
@@gardenguychannel hey, the materials is 400 each pallet and and i need to put down 2 pallet do you have any idea how much i can charge per pallet? Thanks
Do no build walls like this. At min the base rock long side of stone needs to go front to back of bed not side to side. Voids need to be filled with like the same rock as wall is being built, largest rocks should be used at base, and absolutely never dry stack a wall with out gravel as a back fill.
Haha nice design and job well done!! Ben u r acting like the Egyptian Task Master of the Moses time to poor Ethan!!!! Please pay Ethan Sleepy Biden's new minimum wages $15s /hr.!!!! 😜 And I will see if you r still in the gardening business!!! 😜 One more Idea to earn more money make Ethan dance to house owners.. A good dance from his school. Probably you will get more money for bringing school dance to house owners door step!!! 😜 Any way.. It was a good video. I am happy to see Ethan working with you n learning gardening. Love you Ethan for all your good gardening work!! And God bless you!!! . 💐 😇😇🎁👏👏 Ethan is the Hero of the day!!! 😜
This is EXACTLY what I want to do in front of my house! The tree that was planted when the house was built is still very healthy and the landscaping encases it, but there are SO many roots that I can't dig down to plant any landscaping plants around it. I want to build this exact same thing to give it some depth so I can plant in it. Thank you!!
I truly believe that the ability to work is one of God's greatest blessings! To do so with an attitude of JOY while striving for EXCELLENCE is truly the very best way to tackle any work! Beautiful job on the stone border - it's going to be amazing filled with plants!!!
Fabulous job guys. I’ve spent the past 4 years working on the landscaping for our home situated on a rocky hill, TRUST ME……… “Work like this ain’t easy”. 😎
It looks beautiful. You had a nice Helper too. God bless you.
Looks great!
Exactly! Work is all about havin some fan.
That's the best way to motivate oneself ❣️💯
You know how to build walls! It's great you share your knowledge with us. Nice stones. You are really good at this!
I love natural stone work .
What a beautiful job.
Love your work and your attitude. May Heavenly Father continue to bless y’all and your business 🙏🏼
I appreciate you sharing your work, and your attitude ❤
Great work and an even greater attitude towards work. Encouraging to see!
Very pretty guys
Beautiful
Thank you for the video and all the tips towards doing such a wall. Great job!
You are so welcome!
Awesome job well done
You absolutely inspired me young man to make a bed such as this for my medicinal herbs. Thank you for the tutorial. You certainly did bless his family. You get a gold star! 🌟❤️🇨🇦
Thank you so much! I am very glad that you were inspired.
The attention to detail is fabulous!
Exactly what I needed to see, thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing this. Just researching to learn more, I want to border a spot in the yard for berry bushes. Learned a lot from this! Thank you for sharing your joy of this work as well as your grateful and humble spirit in doing your best. You are making the world a more beautiful place both on and off line!
Thank you Emily!
I enjoyed this lesson. You guys did such a good job with such ease. Great work. God bless you two.
Beautiful work!
Beautiful!
That is really cool, thanks for making this video. Ive got all sorts of slopes like this that Im trying to make useable
Great information - thanks!
Awesome job guys..Tks for the teaching and God bless you guys with much success 🙌
I’m a novice “waller” and have been doing a lot of research before i atempt my first wall. All research say to “not” put the long face of the stone as facing. Best to put the length of the stone in this creating the strongest possible wall. It is tempting to put the long face out because u cover more distance, however, this practice promotes a weaker wall.
Very respectfully,
DS
The shorter side would be on the ones not providing as much structural strength is that what you mean ?
Yep, working on my first retaining wall now. However, from a physics standpoint, you don't need your wall to be wider than it is tall for the sake of integrity. Since this wall is angled backward, the stones are very flat, they're using a load of back-fill rather than, say, heart stones, and the wall is only marginally taller than it is wide at the tallest point, you're better off choosing the widest and nicest faces just like they did.
Ben (and Ethan), that' looks really nice! Well done.
Beautiful job bud👍
Looks nice👍
Love the tutorial and your positive attitude! Showed me I don’t need a bunch of fancy equipment to build something pretty. I think I’ll go ahead and pull the trigger on this project now. God bless!
looks wonderful
Just did this today ! But stay blessed man and keep landscaping!! #Landscape4life
You guys Rock!!!
Hi, Benj! Excellent tutorial! You taught me a lot. Looks amazing.
Thank you, Pam! Glad it was a blessing to you!
Good job boys.
looks nice!
👍👍👍👍awsome
I'm about to do this. Hopefully mine looks half as good as yours. 😊
You’ve got this!
Loved the video! Thanks for sharing
beautiful job!
Beautiful wall, cool video!
Great job men!
You two ROCK!
Bulldog Joe S D. Rock On! via Fort Richardson Alaska Way north north west
Beautiful job!
Well Done guys.. God bless you both.. Love your attitude and your hard work.. Looks awesome.. Without cement.. 👌
Well done,looks great!
Just need to be careful about what weather zone you live in. I live up near Canada on the US boarder in Ohio. We always dig down below the frost line about 40”. If there is a slope that allows drainage be installed at bottom of trench, we install black 4” drain Poole, cover with coarse gravel and use a plate compactor to remove voids. Next we take a lazar level and level all the footer heights. If on a long slope we will stair step footers below grade and stack the stone a little further below grade in those areas.
We do all this because the walls tend to heave in the winter and over time then walls can become unstable.
Looks lien these walls are being installed further south.
was thinking the same thing. did something very similar to diy build in upper midwest US
What a good video. Thanks!
Very nice! It compliments the stone base of the pillars.
Seems like a string line would get you a straight wall with some stakes along the curves. Also, don't you tamp your gravel?
Great job.xxxxx
Great video.
Nice wall! It will be there until they want it moved.... which should be forever 😊 it reminds me of the one I had built around the front of my house. On the higher end we planted a nice white Dogwood tree. I love it! I’m sure the homeowners are going to LOVE theirs too
That sounds beautiful!
Thank you for sharing. Great video. Excellent workmanship. I have a question - I am reparing the rocks surrounding an old bed... these rocks are not all "flat" and I wondered if there is a modified method - perhaps that uses dabs of cement in between crevices of the stones to fortify the structure given the lack of uniformity of thickness of the stones.... have you any experience that you can share on this? The preexisting layers of rock around a garden are coming unhinged after many years... my thought was to remove the rocks, grade the ground, and start fresh using the same rocks.... perhaps there is another video for this type of technique that you can suggest for achieving a high quality outcome? Thank you!
Hi Michael! Thank you for the comment. Yes for irregularly shaped stone I recommend the following options
1. mortar between the stones
2. masonry cement glue between stones
3. just try to stack them again and use soil between where there are gaps. preferably more clay-ish soil. Try to puzzle piece them so they don't fall. also, stack so that the wall leans inward. Do one layer at a time and then backfill. this will give it some strength.
God bless and happy landscaping!
Just a question -- there's no need to dump sand into the joints and gaps of each layer of rock to keep it from shifting over time or will it remain stable without it?
Looks really beautiful! Great job guys ❤️ God bless you!
Dry stone master.
So you accidentu met his nephew? Crazy right. Then I went to his studio in manhatyen. Smoke weed on fire escape. His brother a sculpture too.b
I've been landscaping 25 years in California. Built just a few dry stack flagstone walls like this. I just realized I was doing it wrong! I always backfilled with just native soil. Using gravel as you pointed out gives it strength and stability. Adding many more years of enjoyment. Great job young man! I'm excited to do my next stone wall like this.
LOVE it! 🥰
Thanks for sharing!
What type stones and thickness are these, I am going to try it this thanks friend.
Nicely done, gents. Thanks for the tips. Such hard work. Where are you guys located?
Nice work Benj and Ethan. It’s fun to see the project from beginning to end.
Not bad for beginners. Keep growing and learning
Ben & Ethan: you guys gave me some great insights into my DIY project, it would be cool to see what it looks like now. I’m curious to know how you keep weeds from growing between & around the rocks?
btw, have you ever considered using landscape fabric under the crushed stone base?
Great video! Thank you!
Where can I find guys like you in the Detroit area? My stone borders are falling apart and I want to sell my house. I’m too tiny and have been sick so I can’t do it alone.
Great work! Beautiful! I had started on my smaller project then took a break & found your video! Needless to say, I realized I was doing things all wrong! Stopped where I was and headed to the home store for some gravel. I do have a question about what to do if your area is uneven, as in, one side is about 15 inches lower. I'm guessing I need to start at that side & work my way around so the top layer of stone is level. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
Hey Maria! I’m glad it was helpful. Yes I’d work on that lower side first so that you get it to where it’s approximately level. Then you can easily work from that base…or second option would be to keep the layering slanted. I hope this helps!
Great job. I have a similar, but much smaller planting bed our landscapers put in front of our front porch. Now, after 10 years, the soil is washing out one side. I’m not sure how to fix without dismantling the whole side nor do I know if it’s something best left to the professionals to repair or if it an easy diy fix. With mature Hostas, Ivy, Creeping Jenny, weed barrier and bark mulch, I don’t know how to go about fixing without damaging the plants. Any thoughts?
Hi Shelley! I would peel back the mulch, fabric and then just remove that section stone by stone.
You could use some landscape fabric as a liner along the back side to keep the soil from seeping through. I hope this helps!
How would I do that where it goes from grade level to about 1 to 1.5 feet high with the trapezoid shaped 4" high stones?
Well…you’d need 3-4 layers if you’re using 4 inch thick stones. And you would make sure each layer is set back about 1 inch to help with soil retention.
Hope this helps!
Loved watching you both do this, for what me and my neighborhood here would consider, the good ol' fashioned way.... you even just used a piece of stone to do the job of what would have been done with a tool made for tamping :)
Came to your video cause wife n me are wanting to build 1-2 foot high rock walls around the oak and maple trees in our yard. So would have a circular rock wall around the tree, but its difficult finding videos that pertain to our type of job that we're wanting to do.
Well keep up the good work guys!
Glad it was a blessing!
Ps. Just be sure if you build those walls up that the soil inside doesn’t come up on the trees. That could stress them. Blessings!
Hi Benji,
Thank you for your tutorial. I am planning on constructing my own flat stone walls around my own landscaping. What did you use for the fill gravel? I was considering 3/4 inch minus gravel.
Hey Nicole. I used some extra gravel the client had already on site. It was most likely 57 stone.
@@gardenguychannel I ended up purchasing 3/4 gravel. Hoping to start the wall this weekend or next week (need the rain to stop). Wish me luck. Stone pallets and gravel are delivered and waiting!
How much rock did you use? And what is that rock called so I can ask for it by name?
great tutorial
What are these stones called and also how many did you get and how did you estimate the amount you needed?
Just measure the area you want to do. Then measure the average length of the stone (Take 5 pieces, measure each one and then divide by 5 to get an average length). Divide the length of area you want to do with the average length of the stone. Measure the thickness of the stone. Then multiply the thickness you want. So if you want it 1 foot high and the stone is 2 inches thick it would be 6 pieces thick multiplied by the number you get from the total length of area. You'll never have the perfect amount but you can get pretty close.
Lit🔥💯 👍
Very nice looking!
Is that flagstone and what's the cost of materials for a job like that?
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Very nice. I think you guys used every muscle in your back, legs, arms etc. That was a lot of work.
How was the stone purchased? Did you but the whole pallet, or just the stone removed from it?
No glue or mortar?
@@Alpha_Orionis_99 nope! I could be an extra measure for sure but gravity and the back pressure from the soil should hold it in just nice
Just a suggestion and of course you are young, but wouldn't a handheld Dirt Tamper make the compacting go faster than a handheld stone?
WOW ,,, 2 views .... 2 likes ... awesome keep it going everyone
What kind of rocks are you using for the border?
Natural field stone. Tennessee stone.
Looks good. How many pallets was that?
What type of rock are you using?
@@jerryw4458 it is what we call field stone around here.
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How do I do this with rocks
Would you just glue, the last couple layers of rock?
For sure!
About how much did this cost? I’m wanting to something very similar and no idea on how to figure up cost
How much is the cost to put a pallet down
Depends on the costs of materials and labor. I really can't give a a figure.
@@gardenguychannel hey, the materials is 400 each pallet and and i need to put down 2 pallet do you have any idea how much i can charge per pallet? Thanks
How much do you charge per square feet?
That's changing so fast I can't keep up these days haha.
What kind of stone is that called?
Do no build walls like this. At min the base rock long side of stone needs to go front to back of bed not side to side. Voids need to be filled with like the same rock as wall is being built, largest rocks should be used at base, and absolutely never dry stack a wall with out gravel as a back fill.
I love a comment section expert with no samples of their own work to be seen...
Specific type of flagstone?
We call it field stone around here. It’s limestone and sand.
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Haha nice design and job well done!! Ben u r acting like the Egyptian Task Master of the Moses time to poor Ethan!!!! Please pay Ethan Sleepy Biden's new minimum wages $15s /hr.!!!! 😜 And I will see if you r still in the gardening business!!! 😜
One more Idea to earn more money make Ethan dance to house owners.. A good dance from his school. Probably you will get more money for bringing school dance to house owners door step!!! 😜
Any way.. It was a good video. I am happy to see Ethan working with you n learning gardening. Love you Ethan for all your good gardening work!! And God bless you!!! . 💐 😇😇🎁👏👏
Ethan is the Hero of the day!!! 😜
Ben, you should learn the correct methods for building dry stone walls.
My mother always said if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. Sorry I’m late to the convo….♥️🇨🇦
@@PrayerOpensDoortypical religious type that completely lacks critical thinking and just chooses to ignore the facts all around them. 🤡
lay the stone into slope not along slope.
What do you mean "into the slope?" Dig it in sideways? I don't understand. Could you explain?
No mortar no footer hmm, everyone works different ig I prefer something that will last something solid.
Camera crews, design students.hmmmm? Yup
and if you don't have the ability to work, what do you call that ?