New Garden Bed

Today it is raining!  On this last official day of spring break we are going to go get the materials needed to build a new garden bed.  I have seen ones made with cinder blocks on the internet.  They look really neat when planted with strawberries in the holes.  So I decided to compare the price between building a garden bed from blocks versus the traditional landscape timber.  Here is what I found -

8' x 4' garden bed

-  requires18 cinder blocks.  Total cost $35.46 at Lowes.
-  requires 6 landscape timbers, stacked two high.  Total cost  $9.42 at Lowes.

Well, decision made - we will definitely be picking up the landscape timbers.  We could almost make 4 garden beds from landscape timbers for the price of just 1 from cinder blocks.