Plot numbers & signs

**Amanda Maria Edmonds a*@growinghope.net**

I've found a great, and fairly moderately priced, solution for 
weather-proof signs.  It's using write-in-the-rain, or field notebook 
sort of paper.  I ordered it directly from Xerox (couldn't find any 
locally supplied in full 8.5 x11 sheet size), and it was $60 for 100 
sheets.  Search for the words "waterproof" or "tear-proof" or related 
words on their or other paper manufacturers websites.  Now, normally I 
would say that's a lot of $ for 100 sheets of paper, but the good thing 
about this paper, which truly is weatherproof and so far fade-proof, is 
that it runs right through a (color or b/w) laser printer, and the ink 
really "sticks".  We then cut it up and can get a good 8 small signs 
(which we've color coded with symbols for 
fruit/veggie/herb/annual/perennial/native plants) out of each one.  
They're beautiful!  They have lasted really well, but last year I used 
them on floral picks (the plastic stick the florist card comes on in a 
bouquet) because I'd seen the local bot gardens do that... But, the 
sticks got brittle and broke, and we pulled up and broken, or easily 
got stepped on during weeding, etc-- they didn't last at all.  So, this 
year I'll staple the paper to small wooden stakes.  The color and 
condition of our signs from last year is still fabulous, and the 
relative cost of each little sign (and the loss should one disappear) 
is minimal.

Amanda

Amanda Maria Edmonds    			                            	
Executive Director, Growing Hope
amanda@growinghope.net
734.330.7576

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
"To forget to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget 
ourselves."
					-Mahatma Ghandi

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