[White Gardens]

If your putting a fence up, then I would just grade out the bed, throw some good landscape fabric down and then some rock.

KISS method on this one. Don't get to fancy, and I'm not trying to knock/badmouth your property, but you can only put so much lipstick on the pig.

Like I always tell my clients, if you've got plans for the house, do that first and the landscaping last.

Also, if your using a string line and string line level, you must have your line extremely taught in order for it to read correctly. Ditch the wooden posts and get some long 1/2 re-bar and steel posts to tie your line to.

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[White Gardens]

Did you glue each course?

No need to do that in the future. The only glue you need is for the caps.

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[White Gardens]

I did use adhesive between each course, because I needed to knock the retaining lip off in order to stack them vertically instead of laid back 1" per course as the lip would force them to do.

Or are you saying I could get away without adhesive even without the lip?

I see what you did now.

Yes, you would need glue for each course if the lip is gone.

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