This "sandbox" design is easy for DIYers because there's no digging—just remove the turf. A treated timber frame is pinned to the ground with 2-foot lengths of steel rebar. Then, in goes a base of crushed stone and stone dust, landscape fabric, and a top layer of pea gravel.
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