A week later, on May 15, 2010, my wife and I went shopping for the materials required for square foot gardening. We decided to start out with two square beds, each being four feet wide. We went to Lowe’s and got them to cut four 2"x6"x8' boards in half. We also got six 1 1/2"x1/4"x8' pine lattice strips cut in half. We got a 48"x50' roll of chicken wire, eight 8 quart bags of vermiculite, two 3 cubic foot bags of peat moss, and 80 pounds of cow manure compost.

I then started constructing the frames. I drilled three holes near one end of each board. I then screwed the boards together into two 4' square boxes. This was enough work for one day, so I stopped.