Published On Jun 29, 2014
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shows how to hide—and beautify—an ugly concrete-block retaining wall. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Shopping list for How to Attach a Trellis to a Concrete Wall:
- 4-foot x 6-foot wood trellis panels
- 2-inch masonry screws and steel washers
- Climbing vines
- Super-phosphate and starter fertilizer
- Jute string
- Pine-bark mulch
Tools for How to Attach a Trellis to a Concrete Wall:
- 4-foot level
- hammer drill, for boring holes in concrete wall
- drill/driver
- shovel
- cultivator, used to loosen root ball
- pocket knife
- garden rake
- wheelbarrow
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