Straight

[Unwashed]

I've tried to be relaxed about planting in straight lines, I even plant diagonally across my plot to be a bit adventurous, but I can't help it - I do like straight lines.  And you?

[Unwashed]

[Squash64]

I like them......but I can't do them!
They start off looking straight to me but by the time I've finished they're all over the place. 
I'll just have to make do with admiring them on other people's plots.

[small]

I try - but my plot isn't dead rectangular, so if they line up with the barn then they don't end up parallel to the greenhouse at the other end....so I use a patch in the middle for stuff like courgettes that disguise the discrepancy....obsessive, moi?

[manicscousers]

Straight, what's that  ;D
I start off straightish and then it all goes pear shaped  ;D

[shirlton]

Tony always takes the mick out of my straight lines. They look ok to me.He has measured from the road and put posts in half way up the plot to measure from before we plant.

[Robert_Brenchley]

My rows are all over the place.

[lincsyokel2]

I use high technology, two tent pegs and a length of orange nylon line......................

[Tonythegardener]

I like straight lines and lots of allotmenteers criticise me for trying to get them.  I find that it is the only way to get maximum yields from the space available and it enables you to get correct spacings between plants. 

It allows me to keep to my plan for the year without running out of space or squeezing things in. 

So I measure from the path with a cloth or metal tape.   :P

That's what I do. :)

[shirlton]

You must be a friend of ower Tones then Tony

[antipodes]

Oh yes, I start out with good intentions but it usually goes tits up. Like, the peas are quite good this year, but as I had left too much space at the edge, I filled that with some leftover broad bean seed - which of course are higledy piggledy.  And the spuds were planted in rows but seem to have come out all over the place! I find onions stay pretty much in straight lines  ;)  But I admit that I am of the "small patches" type, so I have some straight lines of carrots then a seedbox and next to the seedbox little squares of seedlings.
I have rows of peas then a patch where squash will grow.
Oh well, the main thing is to get it all planted up!!!