![]() ![]() We are always looking to improve this forum so let us know what we can help you with and be sure to visit your regional forum as well. Keep us informed of your successes and what could be better. Have fun, raise lots of veggies and flowers and post here often. I am even thinking of making a bed out of irregular firewood just to be different! The best part of SFG is that it can be adapted to almost any growing condition on the earth, maybe not outside at Santa Clauses house, but you get the picture. The plants do not care and will grow just fine and the blocks will prevent your mix from falling out of the bed. So don't worry if your blocks are not lined up just so. Most of my beds are made from found lumber, most did not have straight edges when I picked them up. This product is a straight edged unit with one smooth face and one fractured face joined by three walls of the same height to form a two cell block. Square, Not so Square, Round, Octagon, level, on a steep slope or in a bucket, a tower shape or a combination of all. Shop undefined 8-in W x 8-in H x 16-in L Concrete Block in the Concrete Blocks department at. I do not know of any two Square Foot Gardens that are the same. They certainly could insulate a bit more but I do not see that as a huge problem. the lighter colored concrete blocks would seem to me to absorb more heat from the sun than wood boxes. Recommended for topping or capping a wall. I have no direct experience with using brick or block as a box material but I would think it should work fine. Concrete Solid Cap Block is designed for topping off block walls. All 4 beds worked well and I noticed no real difference in any of them. I leveled the mix so that the mix was deeper at the low end of the slope and a little more shallow at the high end. That was a bunch of work so on the last two boxes I just sat on the slope as is and filled the boxes with mix. I built them out of 2 x 10 lumber and the first two I went through a ton of effort to cut out the grass and dig a level spot out of the slope. I have 4 boxes that are 4 foot by 4 foot each. Square Foot Gardening is in fact a great solution to those kinds of problems. In my area we have about 6 inches of poor quality soil before you hit either thick clay or plain ol rock. I understand your pain on the poor soil and slope issues. » Western Mount/High Plains: Seed Planting Dates » What are you eating from your garden today? » Hello From the Kern River Valley from Kernville, Ca » Calling all juice bar waste composters. » Sealing Barrels Flowers Struggling-Need Ideas » Recommended store bought compost - Photos of composts
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