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Do you want to know a simple way to build a raised bed garden. In this video

I will show you how to build a very easy cinder block garden that anyone can do.

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you so let's uh now that we get that out of the way let's get started and get

into what how to build an actual cinder block garden so one of the things

that you want to be mindful of when you're building a cinderblock garden is

is first you know where you want to actually place your garden you may say

we want to find a spot that's gonna be sunny that's gonna have plenty of Sun if

you want to grow vegetables like peppers tomatoes squash and things like that if

you're not too concerned about growing those kind of vegetables you can also

you know find a spot that is a little bit shadier here but you know most most

plants and vegetables will need will need Sun for it so you want to consider

that when you're planning out your spot so what I what I did for from my

particular spot is I did find an area in that yard that was very sunny did get

plenty of Sun it got at least six hours of Sun on in that particular spot and

you want to make sure that that you're looking at it not in December if you're

gonna be planting in the summer because obviously the Sun is it has a different

position in the sky you know you want to be mindful of that and try to look for

it you know you might need to actually wait a year to see it they have some

tools that you can get I'll put some you know in the notes section description if

you do want to pay tools that you can do for it but basically you just want to

find a spot that sunny and you know if you've been on your property for some

time you'll you'll know what that is the actual cinder block garden just to kind

of give you some pros and cons of it is it was very easy to do it basically hug

the lifting the actual concrete the concrete blocks up and into my car and

into my into my house you know that was probably the hardest part I was very

easy just to place everything down once I had my spot that I wanted I did my

measurements and things like that to get out to get situated

I found that said I didn't need to put anything that was permanent I I

particularly lay of my land actually slopes down in this particular part of

the garden so I thought it very difficult to build a wooden easy wooden

raised bed for it because you'd have to have a couple tears and you have to

measure the slope and things like that so I kind of wanted something that was

easy secure and you know I can grow with it so I can add more to it very easily

so I came upon the cinderblock garden here I'll take you around and we'll suit

and we'll show you what what it looks like and what you need to do it's very

simple - to get the measurements and part of know how many sin the box you'll

actually need for it so as you can see these these cinder blocks approximately

16 inches in length once you get your measurements for your actual garden you

want to make sure that you calculate out the the actual links the the amount of

cinder blocks that you need buy and I actually added one or two more when I

did my measurements just to make sure I had enough on there you can always

return it if you need to and the other thing the other materials that you'll

need is if you do you have some additional dirt or soil or anything I'll

show you a neat little thing that I that I do on the edges of my cinder blocks

here on some of them so once you get the layout of the actual garden itself you

want to put down the the cinder blocks and arrange them and once you get all

the measurements for your actual spot you can go ahead and place the the

descender blocks and where you want to do it now one tip before you actually do

that is what I like to do sometimes when I'm trying to lay out some some areas in

your yard where you want to put something you kind of visually want to

see where everything is is you can take your hose and actually use that as kind

of a little guide you know because usually you have a most people have 25

to 50 feet hose or you can take some kind of rope and just kind of put it

around you can stake it if you really want to get that fancy and just to see

how it is but you know as long as you know the general area that you want to

do you can do it now for my garden what I did was I actually started digging the

spots where I wanted to have the garden so I kind of edged it out a little bit

not too much but enough to know where I want to place everything once I had all

the cinder blocks the hardest part now is you got to go get them at the store

and and you got to bring them all down to your garden you know so you know

obviously get some help from some of your friends or use a wheelbarrow or

just use your muscles or you know your green thumb or something like that but

once you get them down you want to put them in place put them all around the

garden kind of move things around basically put your soil up against it

when you want to if you want to put some additional soil or amendments or compost

manure anything to get the garden started in there you

put it on once you get everything in place one of the other things that you

do want to consider is the drainage of it now on my particular plot itself the

garden itself it does sloped down so there is a corner of my my this actual

corner of it where the water does run off so I had to make sure that I

basically took a corner and I'll show you I'll show you what that looks like

on there as you can see in the corner section of my garden here I basically

just kind of left a little gap in between it if you can if you can get in

there and see this is like a little gap so the water does does run off on there

and basically it allows the water to to go out and set a pooling up in this

particular area I also kept that in mind I did plant some corn here because they

do like a lot of water so I wouldn't keep any vegetables that that do get

that don't like too much water like say peppers or something because it'll be

the obviously the water does channel off in there but it does it does drain

fairly nicely so I'm not too worried about it if I do have something on there

at this point once you get everything situated one of them one of the benefits

of doing this what I really enjoyed about it and I found that was really

unique was is that I do have these little planters that I put in here that

when you when you lay the concrete this way you just can put some soil in there

which also is recommended to do because it does give it more stability so that

it doesn't you know it's not going to wash away that these these bricks are

very very heavy but basically I you know I put I put some plants in here and

because I have some rabbits and stuff I try to put some onions and you know just

some other you know different herbs and things like that but - as I'm getting to

that point that that is is one of the cons of doing it with this with wood if

you do a wooden guard in a wooden box you you don't have to worry too much

about the heat but when you do have the cinderblock concrete part of it there it

does get it does tend to get hot in these cinder blocks so I haven't had too

much problem I live in North Carolina and it's it's fairly hot it's about 90

the only thing I have to make sure is I keep these watered but they seem to do

pretty well the I just put some herbs some scallions some Thai basil some

basil I just put whatever I have you know for

herbs and things like that in here but you just want to be aware of that that

it will dry out a little bit sooner because of the because they do get

warmer the other thing you want to keep in mind too

that if you're placing some vegetables you want to have it spaced enough away

from the actual vegetables because again the roots of the vegetables that you

don't want them get it to heat it next to the break so though those that's

really the only con that I that I can have for this is that they do get they

do get a little bit a little bit warmer in the summer to me that's that's really

not too too bad it's really there's many benefits to actually do on a garden like

this like next year I'm actually gonna expand the garden out a little bit I

want to move it up a little bit so it's very easy to do that I would just simply

move the bricks and then I add my soil in I may need to get a few more bricks

from the store to actually compensate for the additional space that I'll have

but it's really simple for me to do that to make it larger the only like I said

the only other icon of this I should say is that it does get does tend to get

warm so you just have to make sure you place your vegetables away so I actually

mind because this is the first year I actually did a cinder block ie I didn't

even think of that so hopefully this will help you out when you when you do

yours is that I did I did place my cucumber plants a little bit too close

to it so I have to water them a little bit more than I normally would it's not

it's not terribly wrong I'm not gonna lose my cucumbers but it's just

something that you have to be mindful of when you're actually doing it so there

you have it an easy way to build a raised bed with using cinder blocks as

your garden as your garden borders right here one green I want to give you guys a

green saving tip one of the things that I did one I did calculate how many

bricks I needed is that I ordered them online through Lowe's or Home Depot or

whatever and some of those stores like Lowe's and Home people they actually

have coupons where you can save like 20% off of that and you know because the

bricks there I think they run anywhere from between a dollar fifty to two

dollars somewhere around there for each brick you know when you do need is a lot

of them you you can save some money by doing that so check it out go look on me

I think on eBay or you can do a Google search and you can find coupons if I do

find something I'll link it up in the end the show notes as well but I do that

and I saved you know I saved a 20% off of what I would pay for it so hopefully

that I help you save some greens so if you like this video please subscribe

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