Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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March 25, 2010 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: USA
Posts: 1,013
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Plant tags
This may seem the ultmate of being cheap, but yesterday I didn't want to take time away from my work to have to drive to find tags for my plants in setting them out. After selecting my first twenty varieties and carefully checking each on Tatiana's to assure they were the correct leaf type, I wanted a way to permanently label each plant. Searching around the house for a waterproof material that would stand up to the rain, I noted that I had many empty milk jugs that I had been using for watering. I then carefully cut 1/2 inch bands of plastic strips around each. Then I had strips about a foot and a half long. I then used my retractable sharpie permanent marker to write the name and left an inch on the end between each name. After drying thoroughly, I cut them into individual labels and bent over the 1 inch blank space to use scissors to cut a 1/4 inch hole. Then I cut the heavy plastic twine that I had removed from the round hay bales into six inch strings to thread through the holes. That plastic won't rot like regular twine or string. In putting them into the garden, all was going well right up until lifting a spadefull of dirt and instantly seeing, AND FEELING, my hands and wrists absolutely covered in fire ants. They DIE today! But, my first twenty are in the ground...al checked, enterd in my log, and ready for rain tonight. Next, comes adding hay around the base of each.
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