Earth wall having a pocket structure for receiving vegetation and method for forming an earth wall

A Reinforced Soil Structure (RSS) earth wall system for creating useable land from a landscape slope, the earth wall system suitable for growing vegetation on a front face thereof, comprising:

• a wire mesh, the wire mesh having an opening in its front face;
• a reinforcement fabric having a portion that is vertical and proximate the wire mesh front face;
• a pocket structure that is located in the opening of the wire mesh, the pocket structure including sidewalls having openings;
• vegetation that is located in the pocket structure;
• whereby the vegetation is configured to grow on a front face of the wire mesh and whereby the sidewall openings are adapted for roots to grow through into the soil fill.

A method of creating useable land from a landscape slope by forming a Reinforced Soil Slope (RSS) earth wall earth wall comprising the steps of:

• installing wire mesh units in at least one row on an earth surface;
• installing pocket structures on wires of the wire mesh units by engaging the pocket structures with the wire mesh units such that the pocket structures are on a backside of the wire mesh units and sidewall openings of the pocket structures are adapted for roots to grow through;
• installing reinforcement fabric at least against a vertical face of the wire mesh units;
• installing vegetation into pockets of the pocket structures from a front side of the wire mesh units;
• and
• installing soil fill behind the at least on row or wire mesh units.

A pocket structure for installing in a Reinforced Soil Slope (RSS) earth wall, the pocket structure comprising:

• an opening adapted for receiving containerized vegetation;
• pocket sidewalls including openings that are adapted for roots of the containerized vegetation to grow therethrough, the pocket sidewalls forming a front face thereof;
• whereby the pocket structure is adapted to be located in soil fill of an RSS earth wall of the type formed by the soil fill, a wire of a face of the RSS earth wall, and reinforcement fabric;
• and;
• wherein the pocket structure is configured such that when the front face of the pocket sidewalls is vertically oriented in the soil fill of the RSS earth wall, the sidewalls are configured such that gravity holds the containerized vegetation in the pocket structure.