Sunday, September 19, 2010

making a cinder block raised bed garden

today dad came out and helped me put together my raised bed garden.

just a few blocks (66)
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and a pallet of peat moss, composted manure, and sand
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getting ready, i hauled those blocks out over the previous two days with my trusty green wagon.
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the first layer (and my dad) resting on the layer of sand to level them out. glued together with weatherproof construction adhesive for concrete
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mixing up the mortar in the dogs old kiddie pool that had a leak
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the second layer, mortared to the first
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the third layer, as far as we got before we used up all the mortar we had mixed up
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we'll get to the remaining blocks another time. lifting that many blocks was hard work and we were more than ready to be done.
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i'm very excited!

final pictures over in this entry http://s2.photobucket.com/user/yesididit/media/house%20projects/9-19-10103.jpg.html