DIY Seed Spacer

This little planting spacer takes 15 minutes to make and saves time whenever you’re sowing seeds. Let’s check out this DIY seed spacer!

When you read the back of a seed packet you’ll see that they give you a suggested spacing between seeds. This DIY seed spacer helps you to keep to a pattern when sowing.

What You Need To Make This Seed Spacer:

• 2 x 440mm x 30mm x 30mm pine (sides)
• 2 x 500mm x 30mm x 30mm pine (ends)
• 1 x 500mm x 500mm piece of 25mm chicken wire 
• 63mm x 4mm wood screws 
• 4 x flat 90° brackets
• 25mm screws
• Wood glue
• Fencing staples 
• Wood sealer

Tools: Cordless screwdriver, 3mm drill bit and driver bit, hammer, tin snips, paint brush.

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What To Do To Make This Seed Spacer:

1. Lay the four pieces of wood out to make a 500mm x 500mm square. Screw a bracket at each corner.
2. Drill 3mm pilot holes and then glue and screw one end to the two sides. Turn around and repeat with the other end.
3. Spread the chicken wire out onto the frame. Using fencing staples, fasten one end to the frame, followed by the sides and the other end.
4. Trim the chicken wire to fit the frame using the tin snips.
5. Paint with a wood sealer or paint.
6. Plant your seeds!

To use the spacer, place it on your garden bed and use it as a guide: for seeds that should be 50mm apart, place a seed in the centre of every hole. For seeds that should 75mm apart, leave a hole empty between them.