On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 17:20:15 +0000, Robert
wrote:

On 08/03/2021 11:13, AnthonyL wrote:
The upper part of the back garden is quite steep and during one of the
storms early last year a whole heap of shrubbery, earth slipped down
and over the retaining wall. A couple of trees were dislodged also.

There is a lot to clear up and I'm wondering about putting the
dislodge earth into sandbags and putting on top of and then behind the
retaining wall. This has the advantage of finding somewhere to put a
ton (guessing) of clay type soil, helping to stabilise against further
soil erosion and maybe helping to provide a platform to climb up and
maybe seed some suitable ground cover.

I guess I don't actually want it "flood proof" as I'd not want rain
build up behind.

So do you think the plan is workable? And what of the many varieties
of sandbag would be most suitable? It'll hopefully be there for a
while.

Any other tips?

Used prefilled fabric bags to stabilise/build a retaining wall for a
raised lawn on a National Trust property. Probably about 5ft high.
Then applied grass seed.
Has worked well and looks good .
Was a great deal of work moving the bags though, which included a short
boat trip !

I certainly would not want to use pre-filled but using the clay/soil
that has cascaded down in a way that it will be held would be great.

Do you know anything about the fabric bags you used?

I don't need a boat but a helicopter would be jolly useful.


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AnthonyL

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