Re: CULT?: THE BEST PLANT MARKER
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT?: THE BEST PLANT MARKER
- From: M* S*
- Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 07:57:15 -0700
From: "Mike Sutton" <suttons@lightspeed.net>
Yep, we staple window blinds to small redwood stakes and then write the name
in grease pencil. You can read the writing forever, well for seven years at
least. When we are done with a seedling or cultivar we just remove the
window blind and staple a new one on. Very inexpensive and efficient.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Maslon@aol.com <Maslon@aol.com>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Monday, May 24, 1999 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT?: THE BEST PLANT MARKER
>From: Maslon@aol.com
>
>everyone-
>if you want to use a plant marker and I dont care what you think is good
for
>marking systems but I have NEVER been able to out do this one for being
>inexpencive and homemade.
>1. regular white plastic vinyal window blinds
>2. cut to one foot
>3. take a No.2 pencil only and write on it
>4. stick in soil near plant.
>5. wait 5 years and go out and still read the blind strip.
>I have strips in my back yard nearly 6 years old still ledgeable.
>(only minor problem - after 3 years heat and cold the blind frosts powders
a
>bit and the blinds have become brittle ) but to replace them is a snap just
>make a new one.
>
>learned this marking system years ago from the big fellow who mark the
feilds
>with bulbs.
>also-- go to a kmart or HQ or a home depot they throw out the one that cant
>be cut correctly or the one that were messed up in the cutting prossess.
>I know , I see it every day, they give them away for asking, or will sell
>them for a dollar. And for 60 strips at 1` foot each you have 120n feet of
>markers.
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