Re: thanks to who ever sent me these seeds!

In a message dated 7/3/02 11:29:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
justme@prairieinet.net writes:

<< Donna
 P.S. Claire.. how close are we to that 100 messages about markers... I
 would say that I started to write the above info on the back of the
 marker... but we might be over our quota already :) >>

Great thought Donna, maybe I stifled a few.  Over the years I have read so 
many label messages that I delete them off now.  I learned some good things 
and then I never did them because there is always something more important to 
do.  Labeled gardens are very nice and I admire them but I decided in life 
there are some things one does not have to do and no harm will come to you.  
Labels in the garden is one of them.    It is not the best horticultural 
practice and it is not certainly professional and tidy but there it is - the 
labels have just become unimportant to me outdoors.  I do label pots indoors 
sometimes two or three markers per pot with bloom dates, etc.  I also mark 
all seeds and seedlings.

Outdoors the garden just became so extensive and the work that needed doing 
just did not seem to warrant a trip to the shed for a marker when you split 
or moved or planted new some plant.  I would think, I will remember that, I 
never do.  But I do put the original labels in my pockets and throw them into 
a container in the garden shed (which is really part of a barn) and on some 
cold day in fall I look through and keep the live ones, discard the dead ones 
and try to find the ones I forgot that I actually acquired.  If one is more 
orderly with markers or labels, then I extend them all my admiration.  

I have about 100 hostas and they all had proper markers, the sort that hang 
off a stake by a ring.  I pulled out a few where the hostas were going 
elsewhere and my grandson arounf 5 or 6 at the time pulled out every single 
remaining one "to help me".  Later he gave them all to me in a nursery pot 
proud of his job.  Similar things have happened and I have become 
(confessional here) totally uninterested in garden labels.  I never got the 
hostas sorted after that, I tried and it was hopeless.

We have a friend who has a small dog that pulls them out.  If you visit a 
public garden or a botanic and the labels are missing and they often are you  
get a bit annoyed, I do, but here on my mountain labels are filed as good 
intentions.

If we have a long winter and I make a few lists perhaps I will consider 
reforming.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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