[purplebean]

I love straight lines. Nice and crisp and neat. You cannot beat nice straight lines of Vegetables and plot edges. I must confess I did relay the Greenhouse base as it was not square to the rest of the plot

nige if you have the energy and patience to relay your greenhouse base will you come and help with mine, I don't even care if it is square as long as it is up

[mumofstig]

  crafty 

[8doubles]

I keep saying that I'm going to make a measuring stick like

this one

it'll be one of my winter jobs for sure

I made a marking stick a few years ago, put a shallow saw cut on all the spacings so the line did not fade, a great help.
If you leave them out in the rain a few times they then go the shape of a dogs hind leg , no more straight lines.

[azubah]

I am a perfectionist and always do dead straight lines at rightangles to the path, with a stringline. The trouble is that my plot is on the side of a hill and one edge of the plot slides down the hill during the night. Some of the plants seem to move about as well. I am sure I never put them in that crooked. It might be the man on the next plot is jealous and moves them. i am not paranoid..hee hee.

[plum crumble]

I use string etc when planting, but do my crops ever look straight? Well, they are in lines, but for some reasons, the lines diverge! Perhaps my little Welsh legs aren't used to the flat ground 

[New shoot]

You've got bendy string like me Plum   

My plot is on a hill so maybe my softie southern legs can't cope   

[plum crumble]

 

[solway cropper]

Forget straight lines and just plant everything in blocks....or do the allotment police insist on straight lines. 

[New shoot]

No - just get pitying looks from the old guard and the occasional - ' you call that a straight row do you'

I often do blocks rather than rows.....they're not that straight either     

[plum crumble]

Blocks? BLOCKS? ha ha , oh, those oval things I end up with! 

[8doubles]

No - just get pitying looks from the old guard and the occasional - ' you call that a straight row do you'

I often do blocks rather than rows.....they're not that straight either     

Just tell the old guard that you are following magnetic contours in the substrate. Walk up and down a few times with a Y shaped divining stick before you do anything.
Eccentricity is more acceptable than inaccuracy.

[New shoot]

They would not be at all surprised by that answer 8doubles.  I get away with a lot playing the madcap eccentric female   

[stentman]

I love straight lines. Nice and crisp and neat. You cannot beat nice straight lines of Vegetables and plot edges. I must confess I did relay the Greenhouse base as it was not square to the rest of the plot

Me to perhaps I'm even slightly OCD about straight and square.  A good friend who designs gardens for other people was staggered by my patch both at home and on the lotty not a curve or flowing line or signature plant, shrub or tree in sight. Uniformity would be a good phrase all my beds are rectangles or squares, my lawns are the same in fact there is only one bit of my land either at home or on the lotty that isn't either a rectangle or a square and it's a blooming triangle. The railway sleeper triangle was there when I moved into the house and it's to heavy for me and my dicky ticker to move. I blame this squarely (obviously) on starting my engineering apprenticeship way back in 1973. Spontaneity is wonderful if it's properly organised. I do so envy those who can just go with the flow.

[suziet88]

I don't know what the problem is.  Everything looks fine after a few glasses of wine!

[zazen999]

One word;

Hexagons.