HOW TO MEASURE FOR SQUARE FOOT RAISED BED GARDENING

I have had some of you email me and ask me how I did the string on my raised bed.  I realized I never blogged about it, but I did of course take pictures.

Here is how I sectioned off my square foot gardening.   I got some wood screws and a roll of garden twine.

Then you just need a tape measure or ruler, a pen, and a drill. I measured the sides and marked them off every twelve inches.

Then I just wrapped some string around and around and move it back and forth from screw to screw, wrapping each a couple of times and then tying off at the end.  You have to do it twice, once back and forth from one side to the other and then a new piece from the other side to side.

After you're done, you have a measured off square foot garden.  This raised bed is 4'x4', so I ended up with 16 squares of one square foot each.  Ready for planting!

It makes it easy to plant in that's for sure.  Here are some herbs in the herb bed that a few of you asked about.  It keeps things neat and tidy and gives you more plants in a smaller place than you might realize.