Sucks having your careful gardening work upended by Mother Nature, but all we can do is grin and bear it, then clean up the mess next week.

Yeah I know :( I was just curious if I needed to find a way to solve this issue, or leave it be. :)

What can you do but wait it out? I'd recheck everything (tamp down and resituate as needed) in a couple days once it starts drying out. We do get some pretty fierce rains once in a while, particularly during monsoon season, so you may want to consider a border of some manner to keep soil from washing over the bricks in the future. Good luck! I'm sure everything will be fine.

I agree. This happens so infrequently that spending more than 5 minutes and $5 to 'fix' the problem is pointless.

Fun pic and post, thanks for sharing them. I agree with the others--it really doesn't look THAT bad, and soon enough it'll dry out and all will be fine. I wouldn't worry about it at all. If the soil gets disturbed easily/often you could use some smooth river rock as a mulch/stabilizer (and it's easy to lift a dozen stones to plant a small plant and then put them back in.

Keep us posted on how things work out. Happy gardening!

If runoff from your hardscape becomes a problem you could easily buy/install a roll of plastic border edging that will channel away most of the water. You wouldn't need tall edging there unless you were going for some kind of visual effect.

Thanks everyone for your insight! I am so excited to have my own little space to garden in, as my bf and I just moved into our first home :) Next on the list: ripping out the grass and installing raised flowerbeds!

I've been reading so much here and on the web...although I've learned a lot, feel like I have a ways to go! :)

"I've been reading so much here and on the web...although I've learned a lot, feel like I have a ways to go! :)"

Don't worry; we all feel that way!