Re: Tag and Identify
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Tag and Identify
- From: L* P* <p*@peak.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 17:03:40 -0700
>notice is if you tie the garden tape around the fan, you have to either leave
>lots of room to expand, or use a slip method to attach it.
>
>Anyone else have some suggestions?
>--
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>John | Annotation used by ancient cartographers
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>John Jones, 35572 Linda Dr., Fremont CA, 94536
>jijones@ix.netcom.com, USDA zone 8 (coastal, bay)
>
The queen of lost tags here speaking from a garden with many old UFO's!
Plastic deteriorates and everything tends to get pulled except generous
pieces of cedar lathe. Aluminum tree tags available in bulk from a
forestry/engineering supplier and written on with a scriber or a sharp
object work great. A club could consider a group purchase and get a good
deal. They can be attached or anchored into the ground with a long piece of
heavy gauge wire, but even so it is a good idea to draw a sketch map of your
beds.
I also bury tags sometimes and they tend to last longer. "Hi-carbon" or
"layout" pencils (soft) last the longest on plastic, even the permanent
laundry markers will fade. You can use a laundry marker and write the name
on a large smooth pebble and place it name side down in the soil, if nothing
moves the pebble, the marks last for more than twenty years.
to prevent tag loss in seedling pots, I use a small tag and bury it on the
side of the pot since things sticking up tend to break off.
For Siberians and other especially tall things, the cedar lathe is great,
but it is hard to find. Sometimes I luck out and find some at a local junk yard.
Louise H. Parsons <parsont@peak.org>
Corvallis, OR USA
USDA zone 7 , Emerald NARGS, AIS, SIGNA, SPCNI, transplanted Oregrowian
