A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion Landscape trials and triumphs Need help with erosion problem

This is looking at the sidewalk from the side.






This is from the backsteps looking to the right.

Sheri do you use that area where the slate is as a path?

I'm trying to understand what that area needs to be... a garden, an access point to the sidewalk or what?


Merme

It's a very small area, maybe 3 feet to the grass in the back yard and yes I walk that way going into the back yard and there is a water faucet that I hook up too a lot.

Ok, three feet from the side walk to the grassy back yard. But how long is the eroding area along the sidewalk/grass line?
I live on a dry sandy hillside. We deal with erosion with all kinds of retaining walls. I have all kinds of walls of lumber, landscape timber, large rocks and even sandbags.
On yours it looks like I would put a landscape timber along the bottom and fill in the slope with soil. Replace your stones for stepping on. You would have a step down at the bottom but that is better than a 'slippery slope'.
If you get roof runoff at this point I think I would alter the guttering so it ran off elsewhere, if possible.

if you look at the top picture you can see how it's eroding away from the area after the steps. I can't think of what that's called. It's just starting at that area and the steps that you can't see.

I agree with Tina--and if you don't like the idea of landscape timber--althought hat wiould be the easiest, you could acheive the same with 1 or 2 "layers" of landscaping bricks or rocks. And then all you would have to fuill in is the eroded area. In the end you could just replace the stepping stones again like Tina said & then plant.

The added soil could be what you would like your new garden to have in it.

this is going to be a job for my helper if she returns.