RE: Economical labels

Well, okay....  I can see marking seeds.  I guess I don't have enough going
on in the veggie garden yet to need markers there.  last year we did
"wide-row intensive gardening., only in 4-5' square "panels."  It was very
easy to know what was where, without confusion.

Thanks,
Sue

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



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