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IN THIS CHAPTER

Preparing your site for construction work

Understanding materials and gathering tools

Reviewing safety practices

Grading your property

Marking layouts

Installing retaining walls

When you’re ready to install or redo a yard, you may feel overwhelmed, wondering where to start. We advise you, whenever possible, to plan and execute major landscape improvements, fixes, and hardscape projects first, before anything else. This chapter shows you how, beginning with some general guidelines for most any type of outdoor construction project. We empower you to do it yourself. If you hire some help or bring in someone to do the whole thing, though, at least you’ll have a sense of what’s involved.

The first step of landscape construction is to prepare your site for plants and structures. Whether your home is surrounded by bare land or by a mature, established yard, before installing your new landscaping, you have to lay out (locate and mark) the site improvements, grade the ground for any structures, stabilize slopes, solve drainage problems, and make sure any underground utilities, such as electrical wiring or water lines for irrigation, are safely installed.