Learn how to build a simple DIY cinder block raised bed for home gardening! This easy project is perfect for growing vegetables, herbs, or flowers while maximizing space and improving soil drainage.

If industrial-strength pallets don’t come your way and you’re not up for a woodworking project, reader Mark shared his success constructing five raised beds out of cinder blocks stacked two high ...

The raised garden bed is not a new concept. It’s likely raised beds were originally used to deal with poor or rocky soil, poor drainage, erosion and soil compaction. And those are still important ...

Concrete interlocking blocks have some advantages over wood for making raised beds. First, they don't rot. Also, they can be dismantled and moved, the container's ...

There are several materials you can use to build a raised bed garden. Some of the most popular are cedar, pine, and concrete blocks. The advantages of raised beds are numerous: the soil warms up much ...

Layer these materials on the bottom of your raised beds to reduce weeds and other garden problems.

Ding, ding, ding, ding! And now for the edible gardening match of the day. In this corner — raised beds! In containers or frames, raised beds represent easy gardening. In the other corner — basin ...

Just in the past couple of days, I’ve had three different people on three separate occasions tell me they are building or are planning to build raised beds to garden in this year. None of the three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A collection of raised brick garden beds planted with different vegetables and herbs - vaivirga/Shutterstock If you grow your own ...