Not quite a retaining wall, not quite edging

Post date: 2020-09-18 07:54:37

We live in a split level home, with a yard that slopes up to a front door between the levels. The sidewalk from the driveway to the door is L-shaped and in steps. We had plants in a kind of slope around the edge of that... until my partner got restless and dug it all out into terraced levels... without actually having a plan for how to support the new dirt walls this leaves us with. Please help.

So how do we support the various walls o' dirt this creates? On the shorter ones, we can use plastic edging, sure. But some of these are 12-14 inches high. Picture little rectangles dug out into a slope with a dirt walls on one side, the sidewalk on the other, and a little wall/edge at the end four to six inches higher than the next similar box/terraced area.

Is building a retaining wall really our only choice? Is there something like plastic edging only taller, maybe that could be secured with stakes? This will be behind plants, so cosmetic appeal isn't a big factor.

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