Label Ideas

[luigiwu]

never Sharpies - ALWAYS Paint Pens!
http://www.staples.com/uni-Paint-Mar...duct_SS1003205

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by luigiwu

never Sharpies - ALWAYS Paint Pens!
http://www.staples.com/uni-Paint-Mar...duct_SS1003205

I forgot all about those. They don't fade.

[Deborah]

Rajun and Salt, that was fun! What about those black laundry markers-do they fade too?

[AlittleSalt]

Good point Deborah. A marker made for using on washable materials.


Separate - Here a couple cups I used for transplants/potting up. The one on the left was written with an ultra fine sharpie. The one on the right was written with a fine point sharpie. They've been out in the garden for at least a month sitting on stakes 2 feet apart unprotected from the weather.

[pmcgrady]

I use wooden clothes pins and a good Sharpie, when I plant out I put a gallon
can around plant, and attach clothes pin with name on it. Then put a cage staked
with rebar around it, and move the clothes pin name tag to the cage

[Worth1]

Old canning lids and metal letter stamps.
You can even buy the brass tags and stamp them.
I mean like what else have many folks got to do.

Worth

[Gardeneer]

You can make it as complicated as you want.
I prefer the simplest approach.

[ChiliPeppa]

None of my wooden markers have faded. But good to know about the paint markers.

[Tracydr]

I just thought of something. The plain ear tags for cattle. They could be hung with a wire on a stake or trellis and come with a weatherproof marker.

[MrBig46]

I use a plastic poms with names printed on a laser printer (on plastic film). The printing on plastic film of withstanding several years (so far I have some four years). Every year I change many nameplates, whichever tomatoes grown. I pluck the old film and put in a new name. Minimum work and at the names in the garden I see without glasses. I hang all nameplates on the construction and then I plant tomatoes.
Vladimír

[berryman]

I have quite a few trees that I have grafted and it pays to have a more permanent method of making tags.
My multistep process is to go buy a 12 pack of cheap beer in cans, and while drinking the beer, using scissors or tin snips, cut up the empties into the tags shown below. Use a blunt nail or a scribe to "write" on the label and it's good for at least 10 years. I have also wrapped them around the trellis on a bigger plant.
I have a big pot full of blanks in the greenhouse to use when convenient.

[berryman]

you might notice my shorthand on the labels: pink bum, sun bum and purp bum are the Artisan series cherry tomatoes.
In the background is a golden currant bush vibrating with bees.

[peppero]

I have been using venetian blinds and sharpies with good success .

Jon

[KarenO]

I use white plastic tags with a hole punched, written on with sharpie (I find it stays very readable for the season) and then I zip tie them to the top circle of my large cages. zip ties stay put until they are removed and they are up higher where I can see them.
KarenO

[clkeiper]

Sharpies also come in fade resistant, industrial and garden markers. You just have to look for them. A pencil works best on the blinds that are recycled into markers or on wood popsicle sticks. China markers work great too. I found mine at lowes in the tool section on and end cap. Just don't get them wet (leave them out side) the outer portion of the pencil is paper that you peel off. Do not use the colored sharpie markers they fade within a week or two.