How To Build A Cement Block Raised Garden
It can help to sketch this out on a piece of graph paper.
How to build a cement block raised garden. Make a garden plan. 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. Learn how to build a raised garden bed with concrete blocks aka cinder blocks with this super simple concrete block raised bed design and easy to follow step by step instructions for making your own diy raised garden beds. Gloves to protect your hands.
64 standard 8 x 8 x 16 inch concrete blocks or cinder blocks. Build a concrete block raised bed garden. There s no tilling required less compaction from stepping on the soil. The advantages to raised bed gardening are many.
It s best to limit the width of the bed to 4 feet so you can easily reach the middle from either side for planting weeding and harvesting. In this episode john visits his local concrete block. Small sledge hammer to drive rebar into place. Then figure out how many blocks you ll need.
I called these cinder blocks but they are actually concrete blocks. Building a concrete block raised bed is easy and inexpensive. Decide how big to make your concrete block raised garden bed. We plan to eventually add a second row of cinder blocks to match the center raised garden bed.
64 reinforcing steel bars rebar. They re easier to weed less bending over.