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[Robyn Francis <erda@nor.com.au>]

Hi Linda - can you beg or borrow some garden hoses to lay on the ground...
They're flexible and easy to move around.
I use hoses for some course exercises exploring garden shapes - works well.
Ciao
Robyn


On 8/8/07 6:40 PM, "Linda Shewan" <linda.shewan@bryn.com.au> wrote:

> Thanks Lawrence, we have lots of blue haybale twine and they started using
> that but they found it very confusing as there are so many criss-crosses - 
> and
> there was a major tendency to get tangled! Using different colours as you
> suggest might help! The only potential problem here is the children's 
> ability
> to connect them securely to the sticks at the end. We live in a very
> gale-prone area and even road signage and trees regularly blow down so I 
> have
> my doubts that their knots would hold over the weeks... maybe a knot tying
> workshop is in order...
> 
> While adults can handle markers at distant points, the kids really need a
> continuous line. Constant markers would require a lot of pins to secure them
> to the ground - but could be done.
> 
> The edible maze team is made up of one 9 year old leader and four 6-8 year
> olds. As they are doing everything themselves with teachers only acting as
> "guides" I need it to be as simple as possible. Paint on stuff that will not
> wear off for a few weeks would be the ultimate - any ideas in that vein?
> 
> Thanks, Linda
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. [mailto:lflj@intrex.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 8 August 2007 2:46 PM
> To: permaculture
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] marking lines for a maze
> 
> Linda Shewan wrote:
> 
>> The kids are developing an edible maze and it will take a few weeks of
>> Fridays just to get the walls/paths properly marked up - does anyone have
>> ideas on what they can use to mark the lines that is not going to wash away
>> but is completely non-toxic - both for the kids and for the food to be 
>> grown
>> there?
>> 
>> In the past I have used lime and flour but these will obviously wash away, 
>> as
>> will water-based paint of any kind...  any ideas?  We don't have enough 
>> rocks
>> or mulch...
> 
> Get some rolls of 1" dayglo red, blue and yellow surveyors tape and 
> creatively
> craft some pretty bows to attach to some
> cut straight branches to stick in the ground along the paths to mark the
> routes. These can be stored and reused. Or old
> Christmas ribbons and bows.
> 
> Otherwise use colored water-safe permanent markers on small light colored
> plastic cards intended for markers and or signage.
> --
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