My outside plant stuff is still in storage (zone 5, northern Ohio) so I
cannot give you all of the brands that I have found; but I did find two brands.
1) "UNI PAINT FINE LINE PX-21" Opaque, oil-base paint
marker.Exclusively made by Mitsubishi Co. for Eberhard Faber Inc. Lewisburg, TN
37091, Oakville, Ontario, L6H 5R6, Canada Longueuil, J4K 1X3, Canada and also
made for Sanford Corporation Bellwood, IL 60104 as Medium Line PX-20. The
second brand is: Bondex Enamel Painting Pen, Bondex International, Inc., St.
Louis, MO. 63122. This has a broader tip. I find these in "art and
craft" stores. THey are not in the same place where the ink pens are.
They normally are where the craft paints are. I have had the experience of
asking in the above type of store and being told that they did not have it or
was sent to the ink marking pen area so you have to do your own looking -
service is not what it used to be.
As far as folding the blinds. Say you wanted 1 foot above ground. You would
cut a fout foot section, fold it in half to give a two foot doubled section.
Sink 1 foot of the doubled blind in the ground.
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From: Butch Ragland <wilddog@venus.net>
To: seeds-list@eskimo.com; seeds-list@eskimo.com
Date: Monday, April 07, 1997 12:36 AM
Subject: Re: Labels
Never heard of a black paint marker? Brand,
Source??
Am having trouble seeing this doubled blind setup. Can describe another way?
I also put name on both sides.
At 11:47 PM 4/6/97 -0400, Henry Kuska wrote:
>
> I make a label out of a folded section of
blind. I purchase the
blinds at garage sales and/or Goodwill type second hand stores. With a
little luck you can find blinds with very attractive brown wood patterns.
I write the plant name on both sides and on the inside. I use a fine
tipped black "paint" marker pen instead of the so called
"permanent" ink
marker pens as the ink marker pens normally do not even last one season for
me. (Having the name on the inside has been a good insurance
policy). I
use a flat wooden stake to make the initial hole in the ground and then
insert the doubled blind to about half its height.
>Henry Kuska, zone 5 northern Ohio
>
>From: J*@aol.com
>To: s*@eskimo.com
>Date: Sunday, April 06, 1997 9:40 PM
>Subject: Re: Labels
>
>Here's a suggestion from one *earth minded* individual...... I've had
great
>success with recycling the slats from my mini-blinds ( Ok, obviously they
are
>cream colored, and dark colors wouldn't work) How I do it is
simple. None
>of the windows in my house are 64" long so I always have a bulky stack
at the
>bottom of all the blinds . I cut off the indidvidual slats (
DON"T cut the
>cords...this is disasterous), cut them into 3" lengths and then 3 more
time
>length-wise. I use a permanent marker ( fine tip ) and as recently as
today
>have found a couple in the garden , two years later, having been
completely
>exposed to the weather, that are very legible.
>
>Just an idea...and always handy....
>
>Karen in MI zone 5
>
>
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