Its always nice to see the project before its fully connected. Since a tape measure cannot follow a curved garden edging measure the rope you marked instead and cut it to find the true length of your garden bed. How To Install Timber And Brick Steps Landscape Timbers Garden Stairs Sloped Backyard If the timber is long then 4 feet make another mark in the middle of the two marks. How to lay landscape timbers . Drive wooden stake into ground to establish height of finished staircase. Create the base by laying timbers side by side and anchoring them to the ground with rebar and then place a second layer and screw them down with landscape screws leaving the first two timbers in the base exposed to act as the first step. Mark where you plan to install the front edge of the edging with a pair of stakes and a string. Stacking timbers is probably the easier method. Placing 12-inch spikes in the timbers helps to stabilize them as well. With the correct landscape timbers based on yo...