Re: [SG] Organization
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- Subject: Re: [SG] Organization
- From: M* T* <m*@CLARK.NET>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 01:11:09 -0400
Peggy,
This is exactly what I do. I can not keep up drawings and they change so
often. Heck, I can't even find them when I need to change them - talk
about organization:-) But, I bury a label in front of each plant and,
then, when I am trying to remember who some new guy is, I can pull it and
refresh my memory and re-bury it. It takes me at least two seasons to get
to know a plant and recognize it and remember its name. The only downside
of burying labels is with plants who quickly form large clumps and engulf
them before I realize it and remember to relocate the label!
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Phyllis and John Randall <prandal@RADIKS.NET>
> Date: Thursday, June 03, 1999 10:31 PM
>
> Hi, Peggy,
>
> The easiest way to keep the label is to bury it right next to the plant.
> That way, critters don't carry it away and the writing stays intact as
long
> as it is buried. I leave about 1/16" showing so I can find it. We have
> kept labels several years using this hidden method.
>
> Phyllis Randall
> Oakcrest Gardens
> Glenwood, Iowa
> Zone 4b
>
> Peggy L Kinnetz 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?
> >
> > I'd like to keep a list of the plants on my computer, with the
botanical
> > name and common name, but haven't figured out a good way to tell
exactly
> > where I've planted what. Do you all have some system that you'd share
> > with me?
> >
> > Peggy
> > Louisville, Zone 6a
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