Raised Garden Bed Concrete Blocks
I’ve been working in my vegetable garden getting my raised beds ready for planting.
Raised garden bed concrete blocks. For good stability without having to use a concrete adhesive, keep the height of the raised bed to 3 rows and stagger the blocks. 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. The ground outside of the raised garden is covered in small pebbles and the grass is perfectly trimmed.
Cinder blocks in raised vegetable bed. To make the raised garden bed, i simply laid my 12 cinder blocks out in a rectangular pattern with the holes of the cinder blocks. Diy raised garden bed using concrete cinder blocks:
Here the cinder blocks, making the boundary of the raised bed, have been covered with the concrete tile tops giving you the gorgeous looking cinder block beds in no time. You might be wondering about the blocks, since chances are most raised beds you’ve seen were made of wood. Diy concrete block raised bed.
Building a diy raised flower bed. Fly ash often contains heavy metals like mercury, arsenic, and lead, which can leach into your garden bed and contaminate the soil. You can mound 6 inches of soil without a frame, but a deeper bed needs more support.
Using cinder blocks for garden beds is especially nice because you can so easily pick your height. “the green box”, precast concrete raised garden bed kits, are concrete post, capstone and panel kit that fit together to build raised garden beds for a lifetime of organically safe gardening beauty. You can also prevent tunneling pests from decimating your plants.
The first thing we had to do was get rid of the old bed. One thing to add, i am planning on constructing a raised garden (with some help!) this spring. I called these ‘cinder blocks’ but they are actually concrete blocks.