How Do You Make Steps In A Garden Walk?
Steps in garden walks are perhaps most easily and artistically made as shown below. These instructions are for a set of four steps which will be three feet wide, however the width and/or number of steps can easily be adapted to suit any slope along your garden walk. • Drive a stout stake into the ground where the end of each proposed bottom step is to be. The width between the two stakes should be three feet. • Form the sides of the step by setting 10″ x 6″ boards into the bank so their outer ends are flush with the outer edges of each stake and nail them in place. In order to keep them in place they should be set in hollows dug in the ground. • Nail a 3’ x 6″ board at the front at right angles to the side boards. Thus the three boards form three sides of a box, long ones being placed in front and short ones at the sides. • Measure upwards by 6″ and inwards, towards the bank, by 10″ and repeat the process above. Do this twice more and you will have four partly hollow ‘boxes’. Fill the
