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paper sizes system do you all use in the UK

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  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664

    Obelixx  guess never seen a blank plant scheduling chart !
    you fill in vegetable you are growing and when you plan on  
    planting,seeding or harvesting them.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I meant to ask, who won this competition?

    https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1068707/a-friendly-vegetable-garden-competition-on-paper/p5

    Was there a tie breaker?
    Rutland, England
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    As regards paper sizes this site explains it all: https://www.papersizes.org/

    Why is it that Americans are intent on disregarding the International Standards, as if they lived on another planet? :p
  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    the reason is the US standards predate the International Standards
    by many years. 
  • StultiStulti Posts: 90
    Here is an interesting article on international paper sizes. 

    https://vintagepaper.co/blogs/news/traditional-paper-sizes

    The English size called Eagle dates back to the 1300s according to this.
  • StultiStulti Posts: 90
    I never knew the Eagle was as old as that. I was more a Beano reader myself.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Stulti said:
    Here is an interesting article on international paper sizes. 

    https://vintagepaper.co/blogs/news/traditional-paper-sizes

    The English size called Eagle dates back to the 1300s according to this.
    I think Jacob Rees-Mogg still uses it! 😁

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    It's like cystitis isn't it?
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    The trouble with such a plan would be that the weather doesn't read it! 
    We might have to take our best guess for indoor seed sowing, but outdoor sowing and planting are best done when the weather's suitable, and harvesting when the crop is ready which is also very weather-dependent. Our UK weather is very variable (which is why the rest of the world thinks we're obsessed with it!) so the best we can do is look at the forecast for the next week or so and make a loose plan of what we might do in the garden that week.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    JennyJ said:
    The trouble with such a plan would be that the weather doesn't read it! 

    Unfortunately, war garden never seems to understand that - no matter how often it's said  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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