Building Raised Garden Beds With Cinder Blocks

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Building raised garden beds with cinder blocks.

You might be wondering about the blocks since chances are most raised beds you ve seen were made of wood. One of the great things about using cinder blocks is that you can easily make your planting beds as high as you want. The advantages to raised bed gardening are many. You can really go down a rabbit hole and build your garden into any configuration you like.

But if you want something cheap and attractive that s not going to go anywhere you can t do better than cinder blocks. 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. Unlike a standard rectangular bed you can build it up to save on space. You can arrange the blocks in a geometric pattern for example.

This is a picture of a plot of extremely healthy corn that is growing in a garden that is lined with. Be careful though concrete blocks leech lime. Think of them as gardening legos. Lime can raise the soil s ph.

You can build your own soil. There s no tilling required less compaction from stepping on the soil. 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. Build a concrete block raised bed garden.

First we laid out the cinder blocks where we wanted them. 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. There are a lot of options when it comes to the material used to build a raised bed border. To be on the safe side use plants that thrive in alkaline soil.

15 creative cinder block raised garden beds 1. A raised bed garden should be 3 to 4 feet wide so you can access it from both sides without stepping in the bed. A cinder block raised bed is also wonderful because there are so many options available. These cinder blocks are 8 x8 x16 from home depot.

Bricks and stones are good options too. 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. The new blocks are substantially heavier than older cinder blocks but are ok to use for a vegetable garden. They re easier to weed less bending over.

Sections of the area are enclosed by a thin cinder block. One lonely cinder block raised garden bed and a whole bunch of moss with a splattering of grass. Wood is a common choice. But now that we moved i have a big empty yard that gets lots of sun.