How to tell where you garden is facing? (South/North etc) - Page 5

 

On 27/1/06 15:16, in article
1138375005.359260.280590@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "htmark98"


Decide on the sort of water feature you  want and whether you need a safety
grille for children and put that in first.  Otherwise, you or those helping
you might be trampling on new, young plants trying to get a grip on the
soil!  It sounds as if you've got a wonderfully sunny garden and should be
able to grow a great variety of things.  Whereabouts are you?
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(sacha@garden506.fsnet.co.uk)

 



If you have a watch you have a compass.

http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/skills/seton/watch_compass.htm

Works well in UK  as it's all pretty close to Greenwich Mean Line but don't
forget to use GMT and not BST.

Slatts

 


So how does that work with my digital watch then?
--
Chris French

 


Watch it until it says 12:00 (or 0:00), look for the sun, and that
is south.  If it is all dark when you look, wait until it next
reads that value.

Alternatively, upgrade to an analogue watch.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

 

Nick Maclaren wrote:

The Australian method works with either kind of watch, and at any time
of day or night. When lost in the bush, take off your watch, turn round
three times, then throw it as far as you can, keeping an eye on the
direction. You can now work out all the other compass directions, as
your watch has gone west.

--
Mike.