I fell in love with these RumbleStones I found at Home Depot while shopping in the lawn & garden department. After browsing Pinterest for ideas on how to use them for flowerbed edging, I had a plan in mind and was ready to begin! The first order of business was to dig-out the areas around the house where he flowerbeds would go. Luckily my son is quit handy with a shovel and dug-out all the areas that were clay. I did the easy parts where there was sandy soil like in rounded corner photos below.




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Here is the first load of RumbleStone. The little cement bricks at the back of the stack were used as the base. I first spread sand, then put the cement bricks on top. The sand helped to level the bricks. I used a rubber mallet to set them and only busted my finger once!

I started out doing this corner first; thought it might be simpler than having to begin with a straight line.


Here you can see the beginning of the first straight line of RumbleStones that are being installed on the cement bricks set in sand.

I busted my finger here with the rubber mallet setting the cement bricks:

My daughter Cecily came by to help with the fun part (setting the RumbleStones):



I installed a french drain along the side of the house under the flower bed. It flows into this catch basin and is then piped into the yard:


Installation on this side of the house took a looong time!


And here are some kids taking credit for work they didn’t do 😉


Work other side of the front:


My Aunt Fran wasn’t satisfied with the squared corner (left image below), so I rounded it at her suggestion (right image):

