Garden Guides | How to Make Homemade Mortar
Sep 21, 2017· The sand or aggregate can be play sand, though this type of sand is generally more expensive than cement sand. Use the garden hoe to thoroughly combine the mixture. This is the formula for basic mortar. To use, add water until the mixture is the consistency of peanut butter. This mortar has a compressive strength of 2,500 poundspersquareinch.