I made a few large mounds of dirt in my back yard like the ones pictured above. I then set down roadstone (crushed rock) for my base. The first layer of blocks needed to sit under the ground, and you want at least a 4" base on the roadstone. For my 8" blocks that was 12" ...
Dirt moundssometimes erupt mysteriously in lawns and yards, with their architects nowhere to be found. While moles and pocket gophers often get the blame for some unsightly piles, the reality is that mounds just as often result from digging insects. Some bugs are solitary builders; others work...
Cicadas emerge from burrows through round holes in soil mounds very similar to those of the cicada killer wasps that attack them. Gardeners often suspect mole crickets, which damage grass roots, of producing earth mounds in their lawns, but mole cricket activity typically shows up as narrow tunne...
once the mound is leveled, I reseed the area and wait for the grass to grow back. It seems the moles in our area are more active in the winter. In the summer, when the lawn is used most, we don’t see many if any mole mounds being created. ...
"It could have been a giant termite (that built the mounds)," joked Luciano Oliveira, a local who lives in a house made with earth taken from a mound. "Nobody knows." While many people view termites as pests because some species eat wood, and thus homes, the social insects are also...