Finding your way around ............

[veggiechicken]

Another daft question
If you're out on the town and someone stops and asks directions, you might say "turn right at the church" or "second left after the pub" etc.
The church and pub and fixed landmarks in your neighbourhood, the streets have names and so on.

Do you think of your garden/plot in the same way?
Do the paths and beds have names to identify them?

This crazy notion has sprung from The Kale Yard and there's The Rhubarb Room, the Chard Chicken Caff, Allium Alley and the Dwarf Orchard.

Please reassure me that I'm not the only nutter who does this!

[Jay-ell]

Not really. Well, each plot has a name - Jason Jungle and The New Territories.

The front of the Jungle is the orchard. In the middle section there's the Central Path, Compost Bins 1,2 and 3 and Longbeds - There used to the "trees" but I've taken the Jersey Kale out now.

At the back there's the mess.

The New Territories isn't really differentiated.

In my mind I have all the beds numbered but noting on the beds so telling someone using those numbers doesn't help (plus the fact that there's no beds 2 or 4, beds 11&12 are the same bed as are beds 13&14, bed 15 has been moved to the New Territories and bed 16 is in the shed)

The new territories have the pink toilet bed, the bath bed, the holly toilet bed, acid bog land etc. but that's changing as I rebuild.

I tried naming them by the crops in them but had to literally point out which was the allium bed to a certain other plot holder. Giving directions by toilet may be easier.

[Guest]

My garden has rooms and then smaller areas of interest for reference. I thought that was a normal thing to do

[veggiechicken]

Of course its normal, NG. Jay-ell and I have rooms too - though not together

[Bigmallly]

Do you drive round your plots Jay?

"Driving jobs in The Allotment - Newcastle Upon Tyne NE27 "

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...jTtOf3XgzX3otg

[happyhumph]

Think that's fairly normal. Also one big bed is referred to in terms of where particular plants are, & larger pots also are named. Bigger naming problem was sheds/garages as there are far to many!

[Cadalot]

For me all my bed are numbered on Mill Green I use to have a 15a and 15b because they were just over and just under a whole bed but then decided to re number them. What I am thinking about is some very large marker that state what is going into the beds so that I know what my plan is without having to take a copy down there to keep looking at.

[vixylix]

Think this be more of a size thing than a nutty thing

[Lumpy]

Another daft question
If you're out on the town and someone stops and asks directions, you might say "turn right at the church" or "second left after the pub" etc.
The church and pub and fixed landmarks in your neighbourhood, the streets have names and so on.

Do you think of your garden/plot in the same way?
Do the paths and beds have names to identify them?

This crazy notion has sprung from The Kale Yard and there's The Rhubarb Room, the Chard Chicken Caff, Allium Alley and the Dwarf Orchard.

Please reassure me that I'm not the only nutter who does this!

Sorry VC I can't reassure you as it is a well known fact that you are as daft as a box of frogs........

[ESBkevin]

We tend to navigate the plot by it's permanent features when describing it to one another. The plot is in two halves and we aquired them a season apart so 'the old half' and 'the new half' or since the latter is unobstructed/undeveloped ground it gets called the open half.

After that 'up along side the strawberries', 'in that first raised bed we made', 'where the leaf mould stood' all get used.
After that it gets more vague 'where those lettuce did well the year before last' or 'to the right of the cold frame, no right if your standing with your back to the shed'