Coffee anyone ?

[farmerjan]

Placed inside the bed?

Concrete "cinder" blocks aren't terribly expensive. The 4x8x16 solid are about .30 less than the 8x8x16 cored types.

If I rebuild my beds using blocks it will cost about $80 per bed.

So it would take 2 solid ones to give you the same height as the ones with the holes in them... so nearly twice the cost..... Any kind of boards are going to last only a couple years... BUT, certain types of cedar are more rot resistant. Red heart cedar lasts longer... I don't think they are making the boards out of that..
I would either line the inside of sides with some sort of tin siding to prevent the wet dirt from being against the boards,lay it down longways along the inside. Of just use some short t-posts like you did.

 

[Weldman]

Placed inside the bed?

Concrete "cinder" blocks aren't terribly expensive. The 4x8x16 solid are about .30 less than the 8x8x16 cored types.

If I rebuild my beds using blocks it will cost about $80 per bed.

One and done guaranteed to last our lifetime placed on the outside.
Here is an example since these will go around curves...
https://www.homedepot.com/p/4-in-x-...l-Retaining-Wall-Block-M0404COFF001/312045934

 

[fuzzi]

So it would take 2 solid ones to give you the same height as the ones with the holes in them... so nearly twice the cost..... Any kind of boards are going to last only a couple years... BUT, certain types of cedar are more rot resistant. Red heart cedar lasts longer... I don't think they are making the boards out of that..
I would either line the inside of sides with some sort of tin siding to prevent the wet dirt from being against the boards,lay it down longways along the inside. Of just use some short t-posts like you did.

I have the metal from the abandoned shed!

 

[fuzzi]

One and done guaranteed to last our lifetime placed on the outside.
Here is an example since these will go around curves...
https://www.homedepot.com/p/4-in-x-...l-Retaining-Wall-Block-M0404COFF001/312045934

My lifetime is probably another 10 years. I think I will go less expensive. Thank you, anyway.

I do have similar landscape blocks around a small flower garden, and a circle of them around a small tree. I do like them.

 

[Mini Horses]

There's compressed, non rot boards...recycled plastics?

 

[fuzzi]

There's compressed, non rot boards...recycled plastics?

I've bought those, they warp.

 

[Mini Horses]

Well -- how long did the ones now rotting last? If 8-10 yrs, just replace with more. May be less expensive AND you might not want to garden beyond that, or even 5 yrs So moisten the dirt, remove & replace...sounds easy

 

[Weldman]

Damn war zone out here with all these wildfires popping up. Two just started today from last nights thunderstorm around 0100 hrs. This one is 15 miles away at 600 plus acres and headed our way.

 

[fuzzi]

Damn war zone out here with all these wildfires popping up. Two just started today from last nights thunderstorm around 0100 hrs. This one is 15 miles away at 600 plus acres and headed our way.

Not again.

You got a firebreak completed?

 

[Weldman]

Not again.

You got a firebreak completed?

Had one long ago, but there is that 1% it jumps it. I think we will be fine based on distance. Though random thunderstorms in the night touching down seem to be on the rise this summer.