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  • From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] marking pens that don't fade
  • Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:32:21 -0500

Rivka, what size markers do you use, and where do you get them? Thank you.

 

Beth Spaugh

Rehoboth Homestead, Peru, NY

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From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Road's End Farm
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 12:00 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] marking pens that don't fade

 


On Dec 10, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Wiediger, Alison wrote:

Even the black sharpies fade very quickly here - sometimes just in the 4-6 weeks it takes to go from seeding a flat to transplant.  Difference in the different parts of the country I'd guess.

 


The ones I posted a link to earlier aren't sharpies at all; you might give them a try. Of course you may have different conditions; they may hold up better for you -- but I also find that sharpies are useless even for transplant tray tags. I have some transplant tray tags written with the DP Industries "Garden Markers" that have been used repeatedly for years.

That said, I don't know if they'll hold up more than one season outside, though I do know they stay legible that long, at least this far north. For field use I prefer untreated wood tags, on the grounds that field tags often get broken or forgotten and the bits wind up tilled into the field; if they're untreated wood, I figure no harm is done if they do get tilled in.





-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale




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