Land Planning - How to Plan Outdoor Facilities?

Time is the magic word. One "room" after another. In the end, you decide what fits.

I really like it, it turned out very nice, the stone wall with the small flower bed around it and so nicely lined. A professional wouldn't have planned it any better. :eek:

Now I'm confused again. When I want to build a garden wall out of mortar and bricks, I read/hear everywhere that I have to dig 80cm deep and pour concrete. Otherwise, it would be at risk of collapsing or falling over. And you have apparently dug out 20cm and just put stones in there and stacked them dry on top of each other - and it holds? o_O

I'm confused again. When I want to build a garden wall from mortar and bricks, I read/hear everywhere that I have to dig 80cm deep and concrete it. Otherwise, it would be at risk of collapse / tipping over. But you have apparently dug out 20cm and just put stones in there and stacked them dry on top of each other – and that holds? o_O

Note:
Height of the wall, back filled with earth, so not freestanding, weight of the individual stones... just to name a few different parameters that make your project different. If you keep it lower you can even just lay stones on the ground, it depends on the overall project.

the whole wall is "tilting" slightly backwards... we actually debated back and forth whether we should go deeper and add frost protection... but after seeing that basically our old farmhouse was just "set into the dirt" we only removed the topsoil and instead of frost protection as a foundation we installed our ugly granite pillars and such stuff. then they didn’t just fill in behind it but rammed it down with a tamper again.

My husband estimates that we have about 1 ton of stones per linear meter. Per meter he stacked a bucket of topsoil full of stones with the excavator, and that bucket can still lift about 1 ton (rough estimate) and often it was already tight to lift...

Additionally, he used the excavator to press the stones again from behind against the earth... So to me it somehow already gives a stable impression... but we will see... if necessary, we’ll just press against it with the excavator every few years :)

Under the old retaining wall, there is no foundation on our side either. The new part has stood for 100 years. The barn foundation consisted of large sandstone blocks or naturally occurring rock.

With a dry stone wall on a slope, at that height, I see no problem at all.

this is what the whole thing looks like in cross-section: