Re: Plant labels
- Subject: Re: Plant labels
- From: W* G*
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 13:22:33 -0400
On 5/3/01 11:59 AM Nan Sterman wrote:
>what do you recommend? What lasts a long time in your garden?
Two suggestions:
Sanford makes and sells - through laboratory supply houses and such U.S.
mail-order stationery suppliers as Quill - an 'industrial' grade Sharpie
marking pen for laboratory use, the ink of which lasts 2-3 years in the
tropical sun. Presumably the ink remains legible longer in temperate zone
gardens.
More expensive, and also neater but much more tedious than a marking pen,
is using a Dymo metal label embossing machine to emboss stainless steel
tape. The embossed tape, with a little ingenuity, can usually be crimped
or otherwise fastened to the stakes of metal plant labels. These
stainless steel embossed labels will last anyone's lifetime. They do
twinkle brightly in the sun, though, unless
the surface is dulled with steel wool.
Hand-held vibrating engraving tools, unless one has a grip of steel,
usually yield messy labels.
William Glover
Nevis, West Indies
