When you're looking for cinder block garden ideas, the sky's just about the limit for this versatile building material. Use them to create stylish walls, furniture, outdoor bars, planters, raised ...

If you're looking for ways to reduce the costs of gardening, there are a bounty of garden design DIYs to try—and one of our favorites makes use of a material you might already have at home: cinder ...

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With a bit of time and effort, it's completely possible to build affordable DIY alternatives to raised garden beds all on your own. You don't need anything fancy to pull this off in most cases — just ...

This material is the opposite of concrete block in a few ways, most notably in its color and how it can help your retaining ...

Cinder blocks are generally thought of as ugly, but that doesn't have to be the case. Lifehacker reader Ronan used them in his back yard to create a shape-shifting, three-dimensional garden on the ...

Are there cinders in cinder blocks? Mike McGrath, host of You Bet Your Garden, will investigate whether the big blocks are safe to use around people and plants. Plus Mike speaks with author Lynn ...

Parade: Sarah Warner, greenhouse manager at the Case Western Reserve University Farm, discussed using cinder blocks in a perennial medicinal raised bed. “Cinder blocks are easy to come by, especially ...