Bed-numbering/naming?

[bikermike]

Do you mark out the beds? if so, how do you number or otherwise identify them.

Mine started off quite logically 1- 8, but then I build new beds, combined some, and then got the new part of the plot.

So my numbering from the top left now goes

12, 11, 1, 2/3, 4/5, 6, 7a (7b has asparagus in), 8/9/10, N1, N2, N3, N4, N5, N6, N7, N8, N9, N10

What does everyone else do?

[veggiechicken]

You may wish you hadn't asked.

Mine are Numeric/Alpha in the order in which I walk around the garden.

1A, 2B, 3C, 4D until I run out of alphabet when they become, 27, 28, 29 and 30.

If I split a bed into 2 or 3 - like Bed 19, they have extra letters - 19A, 19B, and 19C.

Each bed is marked by a numbered tile, hanging from a tree or on a stake
This is 26Z.



You didn't expect a simple explanation, I hope.

Can't stop, its Bed 3C today.

[Snadger]

Numbering beds is like naming chickens! Argggg!

[Small pumpkin]

Outside bed are simple. They are just 1 - 9. Sometimes they get a name depending what's in it, but that changes year on year. The number are always the same.

[1Bee]

Really simple.

Bed 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, the other one, the first lesser megabed, the used to be a mega bed until I split it, the old raised beds, the old old raised beds, and the new raised beds. And the builder's bags.

See? Simple.

[Bren In Pots]

Mines easy I have 3 beds 1,2,3 then a permanent bean and fruit area, lettuce are grown in troughs that stands on a horizontal ladder fastened to the garage.
With potatoes and courgettes grown in recycling boxes.

[Nicos]

We have 5 large potagers....
Lower garden
Sven's potager( cos he helped OH in it's creation)
Strawberry bed (has all sorts of other things in it too)
Main potager
This bed (which is the nearest)

OH has finally grasped my terminology ...so that's all that matters

[Jay-ell]

I have areas named. There's the Orchard, the jungle main bit, the heart of darkness, the vineyard, the fruit fence, the new Territories main bit and the Back of Beyond.

There are a couple of named beds. - broken fork bed or iron spikes or half compost bin

[rary]

I have , this bed , that bed, the other bed, the next bed,the first one or the second one, but then depending on where I am standing it can change, as this bed could be that bed or the other bed and so on

[bikermike]

I have areas named. There's the Orchard, the jungle main bit, the heart of darkness, the vineyard, the fruit fence, the new Territories main bit and the Back of Beyond.

There are a couple of named beds. - broken fork bed or iron spikes or half compost bin

Broken fork bed sounds like a place out of a western film..

[Snoop Puss]

I have named areas (field three and the top patch, which was formerly known as the winter huerto and still is, if truth be told). But I don't number the beds within the areas. I'd have to remember them all if I did. If I need to give Mr Snoop instructions, it would be something like, for example, "field three, fourth bed in from the house side" (house side of the valley).

Like your names, Jay-ell. Far more inventive than mine.

Why do people number/name individual beds? Does it make planning easier?

[veggiechicken]

This is why I "name" mine .................https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ned_89073.html

[Snoop Puss]

^Maybe I would number mine, then, if I were better organised. Hmm. I'll have to think about this.

[bikermike]

I name (well, number) for record-keeping, it's easier to have some consistency to keep records (well it was until i lost my book...)

One of things i find interesting is how change is captured by the bed numbers inconsistencies, my first beds were all too small, so i've amalgamated some (and split one).

[Jay-ell]

Broken fork bed sounds like a place out of a western film..

Well the hoss muck would come in handy