Making A Raised Garden Bed With Cinder Blocks…

Making A Raised Garden Bed With Cinder Blocks...

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If you are concerned about underground pests constantly messing with your garden, the solution is rather simple: a raised garden bed with cinder blocks. This DIY project can be easily made, and is a great way to use up any left over cinder blocks you might have from other projects or any you are able to salvage from someone else.

The tutorial is from a project involving an 18 feet long by 4.5 feet wide garden. The first thing you’ll want to do is to mark out the area for your new raised garden bed. Once you’ve marked the area, you can begin digging a few inches into the ground and make the ground as level as you can…

Making A Raised Garden Bed With Cinder Blocks...

…next you’ll want to start laying the blocks trying to keep them as level as possible. Each layer will have 32 blocks…

Making A Raised Garden Bed With Cinder Blocks...

Making A Raised Garden Bed With Cinder Blocks...

Making A Raised Garden Bed With Cinder Blocks...

Once the blocks are in position hardware cloth is placed underneath them to keep pests from digging up into the garden and also landscape fabric to keep out any weeds…

Making A Raised Garden Bed With Cinder Blocks...

Making A Raised Garden Bed With Cinder Blocks...

…next the blocks are filled with soil. You can plant in the actual blocks, although in this case caps where used to place on top of the blocks so the owners could sit on the side of the garden as you see in the final product…

Making A Raised Garden Bed With Cinder Blocks...

…the second layer of blocks was then added and also filled with soil including back filling with soil around the sides…

Making A Raised Garden Bed With Cinder Blocks...

…and here is the final garden fully planted…

Making A Raised Garden Bed With Cinder Blocks...

…nice and tidy don’t you think?

Via: Retro Ranch Revamp

If you like this idea, be sure to share it with your friends and inspire someone you know. Anything becomes possible with just a little inspiration…


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