RE: Economical labels

On Mon 15 Feb, Pesznecker, Sue wrote:
> 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.
I always like to know one tray (flat) of seed from another, it's
particularly helpful among the cabbage family, also when you grow about
10 different types of tomatoes. Other info sometimes carried is seed
supplier, date of sowing (so when you harvest you know the total growing
time from that date), the age of the seed if not fresh, the number of
seed in the packet, if there are more than one tray of that variety, and
number of seed per module if module grown. Apart from that they are
pretty useless, I cant imagine why we bother  :-)
If you just want a marker, next time your kids turn out their colouring
pens save all the bright colour ones, they are very good for row markesr
etc. Ditto ballpens sometimes. I also use twigs e.g. of buddleia to mark
rows after the annual haircut.
You can get coloured plastic labels, they can be used for coding things
and if you don't write on them they will go on almost forever until you
lose them. Such as 'water frequently', fertiliser added this season,
stock plant (don't give away), best strawberry/must propopgate etc.

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Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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