Ah, your garden. You've meticulously planted and weeded every inch of it, watered every seedling or plant, mulched them, even talked to them. The slope on your garden might not be too much of a bother, but when the rain comes, you might end up in trouble up to your ears.
The trouble with a sloping surface, particularly when it comes to soil, is that it tends to erode when it rains. This is due to the flow of water down the slope, and sometimes it takes the topsoil with it, wrecking your garden in the process.
How can you prevent this? A time-honord solution is to build a retaining wall at the base of the slope so that it will keep the soil in place, but let the rain water flow out. A retaining wall can be made of stone, with little or no mortar required to build it. Many gardening experts recommend that you build a retaining wall first before you plant a garden, so that you lose as little healthy topsoil as posssible.
Of course, you can plant a garden without this wall. But expect to order replacements from
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