I'm a Outdoor Classroom - Gardening teacher for about 2 years+ in my local Waldorf school in Malaysia.
We have used red bricks, cement bricks, woven sunnhemp (or woven wattle in the US), used HT pallets, rattans, bamboos, just any scraps laying around the school, giving these scraps a second life, instead of paying for new materials.
Cheers from Sunny and rainy Malaysia
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Shirley Choong
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-05-2024 10:01:54 PM
From: Zoe Banfield
Subject: Cinder Block Raised Garden Bed
Hello,
I have been teaching an afterschool garden club at a local elementary school through a nonprofit for about a year and a half.
We got a small grant to redo the garden and a friend drew up a plan for me to build beds from 8" cinder blocks. I wasn't looking at the materials list when I shopped for them and bought 6" instead. Ugh. I am now looking at concrete block raised bed plans and they're all with 8" blocks.
Has anyone had any success building sturdy beds with the 6 inch blocks?
I feel like my options are either to lay mortar in between the blocks which would require power tools if anyone at the school had to move them for some reason or just use rebar in each hole but risk a wobbly bed.
Any suggestions?
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Zoe Banfield
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