Concrete block raised garden bed plans3/28/2024 Herbs, flowers, plants, whatever you want! (That’s like having a bunch of small pots but these won’t blow away.) Each of the blocks has two smaller places to plant, so you can plant so many different things. I just love how there is one big space plus lots of little spaces to plant. If you like to sit while you garden, leave a couple of the holes in the blocks empty. Lay down some weed fabric, cardboard, or newspaper, and add your soil to both the main bed and all of the holes in the blocks.If you’re making a really long rectangle, having a level and a tape measure will help you keep it uniform, but those are optional. You can pound them down with a rubber mallet to make them even and more stable, but we didn’t. Place the cinder blocks on the ground to form a rectangle (size optional).You just need to buy more cinder blocks! Here’s How to Make a Raised Bed Garden with Cinder Blocks: Ours is pretty tiny, as we were just experimenting, but these can be as big as you like. As I said, these are really heavy.Īlso, I’m not sure if these are actually cinder blocks or just concrete blocks! They are commonly called cinder blocks, but whatever the technical term is, they make great gardens. If I had it to do over again, I would probably just have the blocks delivered. This is one of the times a truck would have been useful… A wheelbarrow will help you move them around, once you have them home. Thankfully, an employee loaded them for me. Those things are heavy and weigh down the car. I had to cart the blocks home from Home Depot in two trips. This was completely new to me, but I was all in. My daughter saw those raised bed gardens made from cinder blocks while she was browsing Pinterest, and she decided she wanted to make one. Have you ever wondered how to make a raised bed garden with cinder blocks? I have a quick and easy tutorial for you, if you’d like to try it. Though in my area the raised beds have worked wonders at keeping the bugs/ nematodes away.Share on X (Twitter) Share on Facebook Share on Pinterest I think in another 10 years I will break even. The ready mix cement is not the difficult to mix, just add water and mix until it is workable.Īfter completing my gardens I had to ask myself how much am I going to save my back by having high raised beds Vs. My 24" 3 row stack gardens have not.Īs for reinforcing the walls maybe pour the corners solid with reinforced or fiber "crack resistant" cement. For my gardens the 32" garden has seen settling and winter/summer cracking. The flaws get magnified with every row, and for my dry stacked blocks the 4th row was really tough to get level. Unless you have a level or solid footer, or plan on using mortar to help level it out. There is a pretty big jump in stress adding the 4th row. I have strawberries, Garlic, and about every herb doing quite well. I would (did) use full size blocks 8X8X16 they are not that much bigger and you can grow lots of stuff in the blocks. Quickrete, and sakrete both have a version that is available and Lowes and Home Depot. Just level your ground and dry stack your blocks, and spread it on the outside/inside. I found surface bond cement worked quite well, and was fairly easy for a first time user.
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