We love to do projects with recycled materials. Months ago we started a project to build a retaining wall on the east side of our garden. The area has quite a history. When we first moved here over 11 years ago we decided to clear a space for a vegetable garden. We cut down a large number of alder trees growing in a grove, and eventually hired a heavy equipment operator to use a Cat to remove the innumerable roots. He leveled an area for the garden, and pushed all the roots he had dug out with his backhoe into a huge pile at the east side of the property. After about 6 years we decided to plant the area of mixed roots and soil. We planted the area to daylilies. The area never looked quite finished.
When our neighbor Margaret decided to rebuild her house (originally owned by her father, Larry Moss), she had quite a load of concrete pieces to get rid of. She kindly donated them to us for whatever projects we could use them for. We decided to build a retaining wall to separate the daylily bed built atop the roots and soil from the alder trees, from the rest of the garden. Today we completed the off and on, several month long project. Here are some pictures of some of the construction, and the finished product. We call the area Moss Terrace in honor of the memory of Larry Moss.
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| Root area to Illijana's right |
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| Digging spaces for the stones |
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| The part we did today |
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| The finished project |
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