The label are for the greenhouse. Quite like the idea of black labels! Centuries ago I picked up a nameless marker pen at a nameless GC and I still have labels to this day in my box that were written with that pen. But it has gone to the great tip in the sky and I am now trying to sort out a replacement. Must now see if my not so local newsagent has a stock of 6B pencils...........
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
I do exactly the same as DampGardenMan - black labels and white pens. I've got some that are two years old, been out in the weather all that time and still fresh and clear. Labels 'N' Things do a very fine white marker so you don't have to write in capitals!
I also use permanent marker I have labels that have been out a full year and are still as dark as when I wrote them. I cut up old yogurt pots and ice-cream pot lids for my labels.
I did go through a stage of cutting up milk containers for labels and then I got a whole pile of white and coloured ones at Christmas one year. One of my more useful presents. They are now running out and I've swapped to wooden ones.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
I hoovered up some , reduced to 10 p a pack , labels in wilko at the end of summer a couple of years back.. The pencils are useless but the labels are just fine. 2B or HB work fine for me
I use a brother labelling machine with laminated tape. I am struggling to find plastic labels that don't snap into bits after a year. where do you get the black ones from?. only white ones around here.
We originally picked up black labels at an NGS open garden (first time we'd come across them). Latterly we've just bought them online from the "big two". Plenty of choice last time I looked. And, a couple of weeks ago, I bought some of the bigger black labels, the ones with a 2x3" plate on a stalk, for labelling trees and shrubs as I (slowly!) identify them in our new garden.
I tried those DampGardenMan as I preferred the black labels as well, but found whatever silver marker pen I had then, didn't last more than a year or so.
I have found that a black permanent marker works fine from Home Bargains. It lasted the Winter, but a blue permanent marker from the same shop is rubbish as I am unsure what is what.
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