Carreto's Landscaping

About Carreto's Landscaping

Sioux City is built on loess — wind-laid soil that will stand in a steep face and then slide if you ask too much of it — which is why so many yards here want a wall before they want anything else. Carreto's Landscaping builds those retaining walls, terracing a hillside back into ground a family can actually use, then shapes what sits above and below: front-yard plantings, backyard beds, mulch worked in around them, the lawn kept mowed and trimmed once it is all in place. Late summer is good building weather, the earth dry and workable, the evenings long enough to finish a course of block. A wall done right disappears into the yard and simply holds. Season after season of runoff comes down the slope and the grass above stays exactly where it was put.