creating your beds from wood, but you can use anything that will create the squares – bricks, decorative garden edging, or concrete blocks. last year was the first year we did any square foot gardening and we opted for concrete blocks. they’re not as pretty as the other alternatives, but we wanted the flexibility of creating some beds that were 4′ x 8′ last year, but changing it up to being 4′ x 4′ this year if that made more sense when 2014 planting season came around. (as it turns out, we’re sticking with the 4′ x 8′ bed.) also, we knew that we wanted our beds to be two 