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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Welcome, labeling plants
  • Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:16:11 -0500

At 12:10 PM 4/12/2004 -0400, Melanie wrote:
In the past I've used mini blinds as labels, write on them in pencil and it will never fade. Unfortunately the stark white is ugly in the garden and I've been fazing them out.
 
I'm also trying out impresso tags this year. They are aluminum tags that indent when you write on them. The ink might fade but the impression will hold forever. A garden friend made me looping stakes out of welding wire to attach this tags to. Hope to get this labeling under control this season.

I've used some old aluminum venetian blinds that were being discarded - brown on one side, white on the other.  Using a nail to scribe the plant ID through the baked-on finish on the brown side, I've got labels that are still just as legible as they were 5 years ago.
If you're REALLY cheap, you can cut aluminum soda cans into strips and write on them with a spent ballpoint pen - not too much unlike the impresso tags - permanent ID for all intents and purposes.  You can buy a small spool of aluminum electric fence wire at the local farm supply store to fashion loops to hang these aluminum tags on a limb, etc., and they'll last a lifetime, maybe longer.

Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY



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