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 WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday that Congress could end the practice of separating children from their parents at the border if lawmakers give President Donald Trump his wall and new immigration legislation

 "We do not want to separate parents from their children," Sessions said Monday in defending his "zero tolerance" immigration policy

"If we build the wall, if we pass legislation to end the lawlessness, we won't face these terrible choices

"  Speaking to the National Sheriffs' Association conference in New Orleans, Sessions said the practice of separating children from their parents is a result of Trump's actions to "end the lawlessness at our southern border

"  Prior to Trump taking office, anyone who brought a child with them across the border was essentially "given immunity from prosecution

"  "Word got out about this loophole, with predictable results," Sessions said. "The number of aliens illegally crossing with children between our ports of entry went from 14,000 to 75,000 — that's a five-fold increase — in just the last four years

"  Sessions said that "we do not want to separate children from their parents" but that the Trump administration will no longer give adults a pass

 "But we do have a policy of prosecuting adults who flout our laws to come here illegally instead of waiting their turn or claiming asylum at any port of entry

We cannot and will not encourage people to bring children by giving them blanket immunity from our laws," Sessions said

 Trump has been demanding money from Congress to build a border wall with Mexico, despite his campaign pledge to have Mexico pay for it

 Trump will meet with GOP House members Tuesday evening to find a path forward on immigration, including closing the so-called loopholes that have been a magnet for migrants traveling to the border

The Trump administration had defended the policy of child separations and said it's on Congress to pass immigration reform legislation to fix the problem

 Critics say Trump's "zero tolerance" policy is being used as a bargaining chip for get money for the border wall

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5 THINGS: Building a Hackintosh (ep.302) parts, build, and shoot-out vs Mac Pro and iMac Pro - Duration: 23:27.

On this episode of 5 THINGS, have you ever thought about using a Hackintosh?

Wondering how they perform?

Or maybe, just maybe, you wanna build one?

Fear not my tech friends, for on this episode, we've got you covered.

Hello and welcome to another episode of 5 THINGS – a series dedicated to answering the

5 burning tech questions that you have about technologies and workflows in the media creation space.

Plus, tech stuff I dig, and how it's used.

I'm still your host Michael Kammes.

So, uhhh, I understand you like Macs.

So do I.

So much so that today we're gonna choose the parts you need, build one, and see how it

performs against current Apple computers.

Let's dive in.

Why build one?

If you spend any amount of time following Apple, you've realized that they are a consumer

technology juggernaut.

Phones, tablets, watches, headphones.

This has led some to speculate that Apple isn't paying attention to the professional market.

"'Cause Apple doesn't care about us!"

[cough]

That is, Apple isn't making computers for those of us who need a lot of horsepower for creative

applications, and expandability to make the system more powerful than what the factory

model ships with...or what Apple deems us as worthy of.

We also need to look at the cost.

The Apple logo carries a price premium, and without much exception, Apple computers are

more expensive than their Windows or Linux counterparts.

And while I concede that a ready-to-roll machine should cost more than the sum of it's parts,

Apple tends to inflate this cost more than most.

Another reason to build a Hackintosh....is, well...

"because it's there!"

Because you can.

Well, physically, anyway.

I'm not a lawyer, and debating the legalities of building a Hackintosh is not my idea of

an afternoon well spent.

However, the tech challenge in and of itself is enough for some to dig in.

Lastly, owning a Hackintosh means you'll at some point you're gonna need troubleshoot

the build due to a software update breaking things.

If you don't build it yourself, you're not gonna know where the bodies are buried, and

you'll be relying on someone else forever to fix it.

For all of these reasons, I rolled up my sleeves, grabbed some thermal paste, and went down

the road of building my very own Hackintosh.

"Look before you leap."

When building my Hackintosh, this was my cardinal rule.

See what others had done before, what hardware and software junkies had deemed as humanly

possible, and follow build guides.

Although I was willing to build it, I didn't want it to be a constant source of annoyance

due to glitches, and then no avenue to search for answers if things went south.

Part of building a Hackintosh is being prepared for things to break with software updates

– and to only update after others had found the bugs.

I wanted to keep the tinkering after the build to a minimum.

More createy, less fixey.

The main site online for a build like this is tonymacx86.com.

The site has tons of example builds, a large community on their forums, and even better,

users who have done this a lot longer than me.

A great starting point is the "Buyer's Guide" which has parts and pieces that lend themselves

to the power than many Apple machines have.

A CustoMac Mini, for example, is closely related to the horsepower and form factor you'd find

with a Mac Mini.

As I tend to ride computers out for awhile, I decided to build a machine with some longevity.

"So this is the oldest personal computer in the world. Pretty historic junk."

"But the question is, 'what do you do with it?'"

Longevity meant building a more powerful machine, and thus as close as possible to a Mac Pro.

And wouldn't you know it, there is a section called "CustoMac Pro".

The downside to a machine as powerful and expandable as a CustoMac Pro is that it's

fairly large.

After I took inventory of all of the expansion cards I'd want to use, I realized I didn't

need everything that a CustoMac Pro afforded me.

The large motherboard in the system – known as an ATX board, was simply overkill and was

too large of a footprint for my work area.

I could actually go with something a little bit smaller and still have plenty of horsepower.

So, I looked into the CustoMac mATX builds.

M stands for Micro, and the micro ATX board would be similar to a full sized ATX board, but

a bit smaller.

I'd also lose some expandability with a smaller, micro ATX motherboard, but I could use the

same processor that I would use in a full size build – in this case, a Core i7-8700K,

and still get a decent amount of RAM (64GB) and have a couple of PCIe slots for a Graphics

card and future a 10GigE card.

I then went through the process of combing through the forums to see if there were any

guides or posts pertaining to the parts outlined in the CustoMac micro ATX section.

And wouldn't you know it, there was an extremely in-depth post that outlined each step in detail.

Next, I cross referenced the parts listed with reviews online, and I also consulted

various communities and folks to get some independent opinions.

This caused me to change a few things up, like getting quieter fans, a more stylish

case, and a few minor tweaks.

At this point, I was fairly convinced the parts and accompanying guides and forum posts

were going to be enough to point the way, so I pulled the trigger and bought the parts.

As the build was going to be massively based on the work that others had done before me

I purchased the parts via the site's referral codes.

Sure, I paid a little bit more, but let's support the community, eh?

I'll post the exact specs of the machine at 5thingsseries.com, along with the prices,

as well.

Now that the parts were ordered, it was time to prep the MacOS installer.

A computer won't do much for most of us unless it has an OS.

In order to get the MacOS onto a non Apple machine, we need to prep the OS appropriately.

Step 1 is to download Sierra or High Sierra from the app store on another Apple computer.

Step 2 requires us to download a Mac app called Unibeast.

Unibeast will take the MacOS installer, and place it on a bootable USB stick along with

an app called Clover, which contains the files needed to allow the OS to install on non Apple

hardware.

For Step 3, we need to format a USB stick for the OS to be on.

Make sure it's formatted as MacOS Extended (Journaled), and make sure the partition size

is relatively small.

Unibeast recommends a 7GB partition.

Larger sizes, like newer 128GB, 256GB or even larger sticks, just won't fly – partition

them into a smaller size.

I also recommend a USB 3.0 stick, it'll make things go a little bit quicker.

Launch Unibeast for Step 4 and follow the prompts to select the USB stick, as well as

various options for install – such as the Clover EFI Boot type (which I'll go into in

a minute) and inserting legacy graphics drivers into the install if necessary.

Then, let Unibeast create your installer on your USB stick.

A note about the EFI Bootloader config: When your Hackintosh boots, it looks for an EFI

partition.

The EFI partition contains basic system drivers and options.

If your EFI folder is borked, well, so will your build.

This is where Unibeast, Clover, and your hardware need to be in sync.

As you'll see later on in the video, my EFI folder during the USB stick build was no bueno,

and caused a bunch of issues.

Now that we have our MacOS installer prepped, let's get to the hardware build.

Day 1 of the build, and I'm here at Key Code Media.

It's Saturday. No one's here. So they let me build the machine with the caveat that I tell everyone that

they do not condone the building of a Hackintosh and that Apple is a valued partner to KeyCode Media.

All right. Here's all my gear but I'm missing one thing.

Alright now that I'm caffeinated let's get to work.

First thing is to get the side and top panels off of the Corsair Air 240 case.

That way I can start installing the parts and pieces and started threading cables to the right place

so they can attach to the internal components and motherboard as easy as possible.

First thing you're probably wondering is why you don't have a blazer on, to which I would respond "It's the weekend, brah."

Second of all we've got the power supply unpacked we've got the case unpacked, and

first thing to do is install the power supply in the case. If do that first that means that can maneuver the cables around

everything else they put inside there so I traditionally do that first..so let's get that installed.

For the power supply I went with the Corsair RM750.

This power supplies a little bit overkill for the build as it stands today.

However I intend to install a 10 GigE card to the future plus some existing spinning hard drives.

I also anticipate needing to install more fans as the system grows.

The 750 has plenty of Jacks from which you can run power to all of these devices.

So now that the power supply is installed I'm going to flip the case over to the second compartment

and we're going to retrofit the fans with more quiet ones and then we'll get into the ooey gooey good stuff

of the motherboard and GPU and CPU.

So as they poured over the parts list I made a few changes namely I chose different fans.

Noctua fans are known for being exceptionally quiet and there are only a few dollars more than traditional fans.

So even at first glance you can see that these fans are completely different.

The Corsair fan right here is hard plastic. You'll see it's a bit flimsy

and to hold it to the case is actually screw holes that go through here through the fans to the case

which could cause vibration after a while.

The Noctua fans are a lot sturdier and see there's rubber on the sides and also instead of screws that go through

there are actually rubber grommet that we would put through and that of course will cut down on vibration

We've got the 120 millimeter fan installed ...the rubber grommets are kind of a pain.

Make sure you have needle nose pliers to actually pull them through the fan.

The motherboard is what I spent the most time researching.

I went with an Asus Z370 as it could take the same processor as a larger motherboard.

It also gives expendability for the future.

So right now I'm being limited by two things.

First I don't seem to have screws for the motherboard. It doesn't appear the motherboard came with screws,

they should have come with the case, but I can't seem to find the screws that came with the case.

I'm also out of coffee.

No.

No.

Too big, dammit.

No.

No.

No.

Too big.

So after a half hour of searching I found enough screws throughout the shop to get the motherboard in.

They're all kind of a mismatch of orphan screws

but it's all in there.

Okay here's the processor, the Intel Core i7-8700K.

it's their latest model and their reviews online have been great.

All right now time to put the processor in...

Now the processor is in we want to put the heat sink on so we can cool the processor down.

I went with the other Noctua part, the NH-D9L. Now I had the option to go liquid cooled.

But anyone that remembers the old Mac G5 - the leaks that happened - would never want to repeat that.

So the heat sink has a fan inside of the heat sink as opposed to over it.

So I messed up. Apparently the heat sink needs to have a backing plate which comes through these holes here...

and unfortunately these holes can't be accessed from the other side of this case.

So I have to pull up the motherboard. Put this underneath, then put them on the board back in.

So I'll be back in a bit.

Okay the motherboard is out. Now I can place the bracket through the rear of the unit.

Since the motherboard is already out I'll just finish installing everything here.

Let's put in our brackets.

We need some thermal paste between the heatsink and the processor.

Then we can screw the heatsink over the processor.

Now I can put the fan into the heatsink.

Okay so now we have RAM. I wanted to go to 128GB but going with a smaller motherboard means I had to rethink this.

So I went with 64GB which I'll install in pairs.

I'm kind of excited to try this as my boot drive. It's an M.2 NVMe.

It's essentially an SSD but instead of plugging it into a traditional SATA port

it has a faster port on the motherboard for read/write speeds in the thousands of megabytes a second.

They do however get mounted kind of funky here vertical to the motherboard.

As for the graphics card I went with the GeForce GTX 1070, as I plan on using it for CUDA acceleration in Adobe apps.

All right all the parts are in. Graphics card is in. Processor, RAM, heatsink, fan. Let's fire it up and see if it works.

Fans started.

GPU fans are going.

Rear fan is going.

"Flux capacitor...fluxxing."

No smoke... no flames.

Lights on the motherboard...

and look at that!

Looks like we're getting something on the screen.

Now here we have the Asus motherboard bios which are going to configure according to the install guide recommendations on the website.

So I've made all my changes. I've got my bootable Mac USB stick.

We'll put that in the back of the machine here...now will save the BIOS changes and we'll restart.

And now now we have the moment of truth.

The Mac USB stick is in, and it's booting...

Well that's promising.

And there we go!

With the machine built and no smoke coming out, it was now time to dig into the Mac OS.

So here we are with build day 2.

Back at Key Code for day two.

I'm reminded by a text that KeyCode does still not condone this build. So there you go.

It's day two and I'm back at it. Yesterday we got the machine to boot and today we're going to troubleshoot Mac OS issues.

Let's dive in.

Oh Shit.

That's not right.

Is that the wrong driver?

Shit.

I told the Clover installer when I built the USB stick to install Nvidia drivers...maybe chose the wrong ones.

I suppose I can download the ones from the website. Let's give that a shot.

Shit.

Looks like the Ethernet drivers weren't installed, either.

Are the wrong drivers installed?

Maybe I should have made a hackin-watch or a hackin-phone?

Is it too late to have a donut?

Is it too early for whisky?

What if C-A-T really spelled DOG?

What the Hell!?

Did I choose the wrong career?

Is this an EFI partition problem?

Did Han Shoot first?

So, is goofy a dog or isn't he? I mean he walks a dog and wears pants.

[Music-Starship "We Built This City"]

[Record Scratch]

Alexa no Jefferson Starship while building a Hackintosh.

Alexa: "I won't play any of that weak ass Starship shit any more"

If the graphics drivers aren't loading, what else isn't loading?

Microwaves are too slow.

I'll probably have to edit the Config.plist file.

Did I turn off the stove?

I should have told that driver that NO, HE was the jerk.

Is CUDA installed?

What Is the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow?

I wonder if there was a version mismatch between Clover and Unibeast.

I should have ordered the steak.

[Hums and taps foot to "We Built This City"]

So what I think may be happening is the wrong drivers are being installed.

from the EFI partition...which just may be hosed.

So, I need to change them out with known good drivers.

What I'm going to do it utilize a script I downloaded; EFI Mounter 3.

Enter in my password...

I'm going to mount the EFI...

Alright, what I've got here is I've mounted the EFI partitions of both my USB boot stick as well as the install of Mac OS 10 on my SSD.

I'm going to copy the EFI folder from one volume to another and see if the old EFI will help this boot any quicker.

So let's open the stick and let's open the EFI...there we go.

And now I'm going to copy this EFI, and I'm going to select "Replace".

OK, now I'm going to shut down, pull out the USB stick and see if that helps.

That's a lot better!

Let's log in.

"1-2-3-4-5". Same as my luggage.

Graphics seems to be right. It's using the Web drivers I'm willing to bet. Let's take a look.

And yes it is the Nvidea web driver. I think that may have solved it.

I guess that means what was causing the issue was rewriting the EFI folder via the newer Clover.

The build is done. Mac OS seems to be performing nicely as do some of the more creative apps.

The machine has all put together and all the cables are cable managed.

Now it's time to take it back home and put it back into the studio.

The question everyone asks is "how is the performance?"

First we have black and white analytics. Raw horsepower.

A common tool to measure this is Geekbench. Download the Geekbench app, let it run and whammo, you get performance metrics.

I decided to compare my build against a top of the line Late 2017 iMac Pro, retailing for $13,199

as well as against a Late 2013 Mac Pro canister, with a retail cost of about $7,000 today.

My build came in at just over $2500. I've outlined the specs of each machine here.

You can see that my build beats the Mac Pro hands down...

but is handily beat by the multicore performance of a iMac Pro, albeit at a price tag that's 5x as expensive.

As each of these computers were built with much different parts, a straight horsepower comparison isn't enough.

So, I also benchmarked all 3 systems with Adobe, Apple, and Avid software.

First, I did timeline render tests with Adobe Premiere Pro 2018.

I also used Adobe Media Encoder and exported to an h.264.

The results are pretty much inline with the Geekbench results.

The iMac Pro was the fastest performer, followed by the Hackintosh, and then the aging Mac Pro. Remember, the shorter the time, the better.

Now on to FCP X, v10.4.2, where I expected my system to fall down

due to the graphics card being nVidia card as opposed to the AMD cards found inside other Apple computers.

I did a timeline render benchmark, plus a Compressor encode time trial.

For renders, all 3 systems were very, very fast, in fact FCP X rendered faster than any of the other NLEs.

My Hackintosh did indeed end up rendering the slowest – however all systems rendered within a few seconds of one another.

That being said, my build exported the fastest, barely beating out the iMac Pro.

Lastly, Avid Media Composer, where I tested with the 2018.5 Ultimate version.

The iMac Pro came in first again, with the MacPro actually slightly beating my Hackintosh...

however all 3 systems were within seconds of one another.

Export times are largely irrelevant out of Media Composer.

Each system exported at exactly the same time - given Media Composers reliance on 32 bit Quicktime 7 for exports.

So, "how long did it take you to build it?"

The initial build took 9 hours. This includes research, the hardware build, the software build and initial software troubleshooting.

However, in the month since I've build the machine, I've had to spend an additional 3 hours troubleshooting

thermal issues, and buying 2 additional fans and installing them.

Do I have any regerts? A few.

The motherboard I chose didn't have Thunderbolt on board.

Not that I have any Thunderbolt devices, but it would have been nice to have an option for the future.

I also haven't seen much performance gains between OpenCL and CUDA playback inside Adobe apps.

I purposely went with a GeForce GTX 1070 SC as I expected performance gains with CUDA enabled.

As other apps – namely Final Cut X, are optimized for AMD cards, I would have rather gone with a Vega card,

use OpenCL inside Adobe, and still maximize the performance from other AMD enhanced apps.

So, was it worth it?

As a full time tech nerd and part time creative – yes.

First time I've built a computer from scratch in over a decade,

and I learned more about the underpinnings of the Mac OS than I otherwise would have.

But does this cost savings outweigh the piece of mind of a fully supported, warrantied and sexy looking piece of Apple Gear?

For someone who is a full time creative professional- I'm gonna say no.

You need a system that works, one that you can apply updates when needed,

and easily add additional hardware and software.

Time is money, and the less time you can spend troubleshooting the better.

Have more Hackintosh questions other than just these 5? Ask me in the Comments section.

Also, don't forget that I'll post all of the parts, pieces, and guides I used for my build at 5thingsseries.com.

Also, please subscribe and share this tech goodness with the rest of your techie friends. The more the merrier!

And I'll be your bestest tech friend.

Until the next episode: learn more, do more – thanks for watching.

For more infomation >> 5 THINGS: Building a Hackintosh (ep.302) parts, build, and shoot-out vs Mac Pro and iMac Pro - Duration: 23:27.

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✅ Toyota is building a road-going hypercar - Duration: 2:11.

 Toyota is going to build a road-going 'super sports car'. This is roughly the time you can start getting disproportionately excited

 Following on from the company's historic Le Mans win – and indeed, alongside news that the WEC's top prototype class from 2020 will more closely resemble 'hypercars' – Toyota has confirmed that development on a production hypercar has begun

 It'll use the technology showcased by the TS050 Le Mans winner. And you don't have to wonder too hard about what such a package will look like, because Toyota's already built one: the GR Super Sport concept

 This concept was first unveiled at the start of the year, and packs a 2.4-litre twin-turbo V6 petrol engine combined with electric motors, to produce 986bhp

 "Competing in the WEC and racing at Le Mans helps us to advance the development of our world-leading hybrid electric technology and enables us to transfer the knowledge we gain to our production cars," explains Toyota Gazoo Racing boss Shigeki Tomoyama

 "We started this project because we believe that creating a super sports car that delivers the same appeal as the TS050 Hybrid greatly adds to Toyota's involvement in the WEC," he added

"And at some point in the future, customers will have a chance to get behind the wheel of this incredible machine and experience its astonishing power and driving performance

"  So, let us repeat for effect. Toyota is going to build a road-going 'super sports car', using technology from a Le Mans-winning prototype

For more infomation >> ✅ Toyota is building a road-going hypercar - Duration: 2:11.

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How to Build a Cinder Block Raised Garden Bed - Duration: 9:05.

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.

Hi this is Jeremy Starke the green thumb gardener here to give you some tips

tutorials and reviews for all your gardening needs. Please subscribe to our

channel if you want to see future videos much like thi. Also please give

us a green thumbs up too if you do like this and you find this video helpful for

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

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