Re: [SG] Organization
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Organization
- From: m* l* <m*@MICRON.NET>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:21:41 -0600
At 08:35 AM 6/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I have two related problems that I would like others' input. When I buy
>plants, I sometimes get the plants mixed up after a while (a year or two
>later) and can't remember what I've really got. I usually stick the
>label stick that comes with the plant in the ground when there is one,
>but after a time these tend to come out, break, get lost, etc. But even
>when they don't disappear, that doesn't help when there is more than one
>plant, and only one label, or there is none. Invariably, the one that
>has the label will die and leave the labelless one by itself. I can't
>see sticking a label by each plant, that is just too obtrusive. I know
>there are good durable labels out there, but most are pretty expensive (
>I always translate the cost of the label into how many little plants I
>could buy instead). I'd like to figure out some other less costly way
>that isn't too obtrusive. How do others remember what they have?
>
>
>Peggy
>Louisville, Zone 6a
I'm a believer in maps of garden beds. Squirrels pull out ID tags and drop
them wherever they happen to be going. Humans, including gardeners, trip
over them or kick them. But a garden map stays on the clipboard, and if the
Pennsylvania Dutch tea thyme was planted between the golden oregano and
tarragon, that's where it remains. Margaret
