RE: Economical labels

Why and when would you folks be using labels?

I have used tongue depressors to mark places in the ground where a rhizome
or bulb are buried, but haven't want to use labels for fear of a cluttered
appearance.  Is there something I'm missing, or is just a preference thing??

Sue P.

"It's not the thing you fling...... It's the fling itself."

> ----------
> From: 	Allan Day
> Sent: 	Monday, February 15, 1999 5:44 AM
> To: 	veggie-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: 	Re: Economical labels
> 
> On Mon 15 Feb, Leslie L. Smith wrote:
> > I am on this terrible budget right now with the planting urg.
> > (no ground available--long story) so I was bragging on my great finds at
> > Big Lots (Mac Frugals, Odd Lots) and someone came up with these:
> > 
> > 
> > Cheap Markers, cut up used, clean, yorgurt, sour cream
> > >or plastic milk jugs, cut in 3/4 to 1 in strips. Mark with
> > >Estabrook sharpie.
> > > Big advantage to this system, its so cheap that you can throw
> > >them out at the end of the season instead of spending hours
> > >trying to find the right one
> > >
> > 
> > 
> 
> In my case I used to cut up washing-up liquid bottles. They have the
> advantage of flexibility, last for years if you clean them but this is
> tedious. I use a Sharpie marker by Edding (the finest tip is best), it
> is sufficiently permanent to last the season and then cleans off with a
> nylon scouring pad and a bit of soap and some elbow-grease. I now buy
> large boxes of labels through Growers' suppliers, they are so incredibly
> cheap that it's really not worth cleaning them, but OTOH it doesn't help
> the environment.
> Another method, our supplier sells matt white tape, you put that on the
> label and write on it, then at the end of the season replace the tape.
> A nice job for those long winter evenings.
> -- 
> 
> Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
>
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