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Re: raised bed via cinder blocks .. small problem

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It all depends on what you want it to look like. I built a smaller bed
out of those keystone-shaped blocks you get from Home Depot and it
took me three days. The first day and a half was just to get the first
course absolutely level. I used a level and had to keep taking them
out and putting them back until it was right. After that the rest of
the blocks went in, I filled it with soil and I completed everything
else in the next day and a half.

What I am saying is that you should spend the time to do the first
course right and then the rest will fall into place and look great. If
you don't then it will never look right and you will have to fight
with it the rest of the project.

I am completely out of shape and it nearly killed me too.

Zane Appel

On Sun, 9 May 1999 08:41:12 -0500 (EST), Jeff Taylor
<jltaylor@indiana.edu> wrote:

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>I just went out and bought five-and-a-half dozen cinder blocks to
>riase the edges of my 1999 sqft garden, and I came to realize that my
>yard/garden is VERY unlevel.  As I have mowed, I would notice "watch
>out for that bump", or "Geez, that was a nasty gully" ... but not
>until I started placing cinder blocks wall-to-wall did I notice how
>uneven things were.  My initial attempts to level the ground have
>halfway buried my cinder blocks.  I keep wanting to "scrape the
>ground" until it is level, but that is going about it all wrong.  I
>have tried raking away the fluffy dirt and trying to level with the
>back of the rake -- that worked for the shallow area (down to where I
>hit hard clay).  I tried shaving with a flat nose shovel, but that
>didn't give the desired effect either.  I still have another bed to do
>(and three others to "fix"). I would greatly appreciate any
>suggestions.  (I am sure that I have left out some needed detail, but
>my back is aching from hauling five-and-a-half dozen blocks into and
>out of the truck, and then tote them around and meticulouly place them
>into my measured squares. haha) 
>
>
>Jeff Taylor / jltaylor@indiana.edu
>
>
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