Building Raised Garden Beds With Cinder Blocks

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Building raised garden beds with cinder blocks.

These stunning raised beds seen at the 2004 san diego national convention garden tour are built with a combination of cinder blocks and pressure treated logs. Be careful though concrete blocks leech lime. Sections of the area are enclosed by a thin cinder block. There are a lot of options when it comes to the material used to build a raised bed border.

Here is one that shows the life of a farmer. But now that we moved i have a big empty yard that gets lots of sun. These cinder blocks are 8 x8 x16 from home depot. You can really go down a rabbit hole and build your garden into any configuration you like.

One lonely cinder block raised garden bed and a whole bunch of moss with a splattering of grass. Build a concrete block raised bed garden. Wood is a common choice. You might be wondering about the blocks since chances are most raised beds you ve seen were made of wood.

The advantages to raised bed gardening are many. Unlike a standard rectangular bed you can build it up to save on space. Think of them as gardening legos. To be on the safe side use plants that thrive in alkaline soil.

The new blocks are substantially heavier than older cinder blocks but are ok to use for a vegetable garden. There s no tilling required less compaction from stepping on the soil. I built my first raised bed from concrete blocks aka cinder blocks a few years ago though my garden wasn t too successful because our yard had become much shadier. A raised bed garden should be 3 to 4 feet wide so you can access it from both sides without stepping in the bed.

Bricks and stones are good options too. First we laid out the cinder blocks where we wanted them. 2 a patch of corn. Concrete cinder blocks soil for raised beds tape measure marking paint or spray paint optional thick cardboard or newspaper optional use if you re going over grass tamper tool optional level optional use if you want to make sure your blocks are level square garden spade.

15 creative cinder block raised garden beds 1. A cinder block raised bed is also wonderful because there are so many options available. But if you want something cheap and attractive that s not going to go anywhere you can t do better than cinder blocks. Lime can raise the soil s ph.

They re easier to weed less bending over. One of the great things about using cinder blocks is that you can easily make your planting beds as high as you want. The long sides of the garden bed have eight cinder blocks and the ends have three for a total of 22 cinder blocks per raised bed. They re easier to work again less bending over.