How would you go about installing stone edging around a bed? The stone is whats called "indian cobblestone" by my supplier. It is basically square cobbles that range in size from 4 inch to 9 inch long...rather standard depth and height. If I were dry laying them, I would simply trench it, lay maybe a 2-3 inch base, compact, lay the stone, and be more or less done with it. Problem is, the supplier has pictures of the stone all mortared together, and it looks fairly nice. Since its mortared, would pouring a small footer of concrete be necessary? I would think that for freeze thaw issues, this would be needed, but how deep a footer does this need to be? I can see this being alot more expensive than what the customer thinks they want... "just outline the bed with them...oh that looks nice like that...ok, lets mortar them together..." ugh -MF
