I spend a lot of time on my patio: reading books, working the grill, and eating outside with my family. But I wanted to expand my garden last year, and I began thinking that the patio offered a great space for me to garden. So I got to thinking: Are patios good for raised garden…
If you’re interested in building or installing raised beds, you might be wondering how exactly you should fill them since, given their size or shape, you might need to add lots of materials before you can start gardening. Should you fill it with soil or compost? Should you add sticks, branches, leaves, or other yard…
I love gardening, but sometimes the physical work can be quite demanding. Instead of attempting to dig into the thick clay soil that’s everywhere on my property, I’ve incorporated raised garden beds into my backyard garden area. Although my raised beds provide me with ample space to plant my veggies, drainage is an issue since…
I recently built my first cinder block garden bed, and ever since then, I’ve been a big fan of using cinder blocks in lieu of wood or metal for raised garden beds. They’re inexpensive, they’re long-lasting, and they’re safe for home gardens. But have you ever looked at cinder blocks in your local home improvement…
Last year, I decided that I wanted to build a raised garden bed against a wooden fence in my backyard. Those amazing metal Vego beds would have been perfect, but I couldn’t spend that kind of cash at the time, so I was looking for an alternative that was more durable than wood but also…
If you’ve thought about building a raised garden bed using cinder blocks, have you ever stopped to wonder, “What plants can I grow in cinder block holes?” I was in one of the big home improvement stores earlier this year, and I asked myself that very thing while loading cinder blocks onto my metal push…
