Building Raised Garden Beds With Concrete Cinder Blocks
This raised bed is made from concrete blocks and topped off with timber sleepers to provide extra seating space, invaluable in a small garden.
Building raised garden beds with concrete cinder blocks. Once i was comfortable with using cinder blocks, i built upgraded concrete and lumber beds using planter wall blocks. You can mound 6 inches of soil without a frame, but a deeper bed needs more support. A 4' x 4' raised bed is big enough to grow all the produce to make fresh spaghetti sauce and freeze or can a few jars for winter.
Today, i received a comment warning us for the danger of using these blocks in which fly ash is incorporated : Has anyone else used concrete. You might be wondering about the blocks, since chances are most raised beds you’ve seen were made of wood.
As a learning garden committee we decided that using concrete blocks as a raised bed material would be more sustainable than using any treated wood which would possibly expose our soil to chemicals. Building a cinder block raised garden bed is pretty easy, and it’s inexpensive too! At several occasions i have shared photos of people growing all kinds of plants (food crops or ornamentals) in cinder blocks or raised beds made of cinder blocks.
Use concrete blocks to build a raised bed and fill it with good garden soil. I called these ‘cinder blocks’ but they are actually concrete blocks. The concrete shouldn’t have anything bad in it.
This design not only gives you that layer of separation, it allows you to create a raised flower garden that will catch your eye as you walk past. Build a 4' x 4' concrete block raised bed. The narrow cinder blocks are placed in a two layer wall that separates the pebbled path from the flower garden.
Cinder blocks are usually around 8″ tall so if you wanted your bed 32″ tall you would need to build up four rows of block. Second, they are built to stack, so it is easier and quicker to create a raised bed with blocks than with most other materials. The construction will be easy or tough, also depends on the materials you are using to build a raised garden bed.