Re: seedling identification
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: seedling identification
- From: n*@ucsd.edu (Nan Sterman)
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:08:50 -0700
>I'm a bit overwhelmed with my first year of growing seedlings inside. In
>my exhaustion (laziness) I didn't mark some of the seedlings thinking I'd
>remember what they were. Hah! My confidence in my memory was a tad bit
>overestimated.
>
>Now I have stuff that I haven't clue what it is. I can narrow it down to
>about three or four different things. Should make for an interesting
>garden after I've planted them outside.
>
>Anyone else ever do anything this silly? I feel like a real idiot.
>
I've done it many many times. THis year, I took a clue from a nursery
friend who uses a china marker (one of those wax pencils) to write the name
on the pot itself. I went to Home Depot and got a package of mixed colors
-- red, yellow, black so I have a color that shows up on any color of pot
or six-pack. Seems to work so far and far less work than finding little
labels or using popsicle sticks and having the name wear off. Good luck
and enjoy your mystery garden!
Nan
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Nan Sterman, Master Composter in Residency
Olivenhain, California
Sunset Zone 24, USDA Zone 10b or 11
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So goes an old chinese proverb:
If you want to be happy for a few hours, get drunk;
If you want to be happy for a week-end get married;
If you want to be happy for a week, barbeque a pig;
If you want to be happy all your life long become a gardener
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