Market Garden code name

[Comms]

Does anyone know why the Allies have chosen the names "Market" and "Garden" for this operation in september 1944?
Or was it randomly chosen? I know Market was for the Airborne part and Garden for the XXX-Corps part, but do these names have a connection with these parts of the Operation?

Kind regards

[Sheldrake]

British code words were intentionally picked to have no connection with the operation itself. The idea of code words is to reserve secrecy not supply the enemy with cryptic clues.

[Tom from Cornwall]

Normally, but who actually chose Market Garden? First Allied Airborne Army? 21 Army Group?

Regards

Tom

[Alanmccoubrey]

It must have come from 21 AG since they ordered it.

[Tom from Cornwall]

Well SHAEF actually ordered it - 21 Army Group proposed it.

Regards

Tom

[Fatboy Coxy]

The RAF used vegetable names for coastal areas that they mined - and referred to the air operations as 'Gardening'. I wonder if the Allies thought it likely that the Germans knew about the use of these references in mining operations, and played them accordingly with some mis-directional information?

Regards
Fatboy Coxy

[Alanmccoubrey]

Well SHAEF actually ordered it - 21 Army Group proposed it.

Regards

Tom

21 AG ordered its subordinate armies to implement it and so named it as after all each army had a part of the code name to its self. SHAEF ordered "an operation" 21 AG named it.

[Comms]

Thank you all for your responses. So I can conclude that "Market" and "Garden" were randomly chosen and had nothing to do with each other.
And (probably) accidentally putting these two operational code names together, they are a good match!