How To Build A Raised Garden Bed

There's nothing like growing your own food! A Cinder Block Raised Garden Bed is easy to build and will give you years of use! Need a tomato? Go pick one! Green beans for dinner? You got that too!

First, we laid out the cinder blocks where we wanted them.

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Where the ground wasn't even we either dug a little of the grass out underneath or used a bit of sand to make the cinder blocks line up.

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Next, we used painter's paper, from the paint section at Home Depot, in the bottom of our beds. Newspaper or cardboard work great too!

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Then, a half yard of a compost/topsoil mix was used to fill two beds. They weren't completely full but it worked!

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Finally, we planted food that we knew we would actually eat!

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We built a total of three concrete block raised beds! One we built with two layers of blocks for extra height.