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  • From: John Bunker <john.p.bunker@gmail.com>
  • To: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] the best of all garden labels
  • Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 08:58:01 -0400

On our farm, we make labels with vinyl siding. We've tried all sorts of other strategies over the decades and none have been satisfactory. We score the siding with a utility knife to desired size. Pieces snap off easily. We drill holes in the labels and hang them with wire. We write on the labels with pencil (NOT sharpie - Sharpie fades). The pencil on vinyl will not fade. You can write as much information as you like on the label. It won't fade! The labels will last a few thousand years - best use of vinyl since the LP. Vinyl siding is cheap if you buy it. One length will make a hundred labels or more. And, you can often get scrap pieces for free at house job sites.

John Bunker and Cammy Watts
Super Chilly Farm
167 Turner Mill Pond Rd
Palermo ME 04354
207-993-2837





On May 17, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Ginda Fisher wrote:

&lt;lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu&gt; wrote:

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Gérald Tremblay &lt;gerald@quebecemail.com &gt;wrote:



&gt; I use to make my own labels with alluminum from tin can (beer or pepsi).

&gt; Cheap and usefull.

&gt;

&gt; I've done that, too - but deer will chew/mangle the thin labels, destroying

them,or, at best, making them difficult, if not impossible to read. Wish

I'd concurrently maintained an updated orchard map on paper or in the

computer.


Interesting. My deer are more fastidious. They eat twigs and apples, but haven't yet bothered a tag.

I found the ones I bought: alumboss, still sold by AM Leonard, which seems to have two different on-line sites, one with wider selection than the other. But they are expensive, currently about $50 for '2 pounds', which is what I bought. I estimate it at about 500 tags and the box will probably last the rest of my life. So I'm happy with the purchase. (perhaps it was cheaper 10 (years ago?)

I did write up a text file of what's where at the same time I labeled the trees. That will live on my computer.

Ginda
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