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SF zones and box markers

>to my plans and am more enthused the closer I can to planting season.  I
>wish I had some specific questions in mind, but I'm sure I'll come up with
>some in the near future.
>
Are you getting frosts in Martinez?  I live in San Francisco, and garden in
Marin in Larkspur and haven't had a freeze all year, and have already put
in cool spring crops, direct seeded.  Of course, I'm no expert and they're
not exactly up yet, but for a few beans:)  However, I know my mother-in-law
in Petaluma is still getting freezes cold enough to freeze the dog's water
bowl solid.  I guess we're living in a weird area of micro-climates:)

At any rate, when I laid out the two boxes that I've planted so far I used
nails and plain twine to make a grid.  Since our boxes are 4'x12', I found
it really useful in keeping track of where I was direct seeding (something
I didn't do such a good job of last year and had resulting problems when it
came around to figuring out what to weed).  Have others found this sort of
thing useful?  Since this is a school garden that I'm working in, labeling
for people to look at the garden is a goal.  Does anyone have a creative,
more permanent, but still changeable/portable way of marking their garden
squares?  TIA

Regards,

Laurie
San Francisco (zone 10)
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