Raised Garden Bed Using Concrete Blocks
The center one is two blocks high, which makes it stand out as the central area of the garden.
Raised garden bed using concrete blocks. Building a concrete block raised bed is easy and inexpensive. With basic diy skills, plus a couple of spare weekends, you’ll soon have a 2.2m x 1.4m raised bed that will provide space for ornamental and edible plants for years to come. Diy concrete block raised bed.
“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. The ground outside of the raised garden is covered in small pebbles and the grass is perfectly trimmed. You can mound 6 inches of soil without a frame, but a deeper bed needs more support.
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. Vegetable roots can grow unimpeded. You may use other materials as well as cement blocks, but they sure do look nice.
This is a popular choice in urban areas, but can be very cool in any yard. I called these ‘cinder blocks’ but they are actually concrete 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.
See more ideas about cinder block garden, outdoor gardens, raised garden beds. 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. The aim is to produce an intensively planted vegetable garden or a highly productive kitchen garden.
This raised bed is made from concrete blocks and topped off with timber sleepers to provide extra seating space, invaluable in a small garden. Raised beds can be made from all kinds of materials, but i love the idea of using cinder blocks because they have many advantages of their own.first, they won’t deteriorate like wood and other materials will. The unfinished look of the wood adds to a rugged and rustic look.