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Indelable marker pens for real?
I cut yoghurt pots and ice cream cartons into strips as plant labels, and I rub them with sandpaper first, so that the permanent marker pens should adhere to the plastic, but every spring the writing has gone, gone, gone, completely and I am speechless with crossness and perplexity. Has anyone ever come across a pen that stays readable outdoors (salt-laden wind proof and frost proof would be good) or am I being daft even to countenance such a thing?
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I will definitely check that out! Thank you for the tip Pansyface.
Wowsers! A fifty year old pencil! It must be like the magic jug, every time you sharpen it, it re-grows. Now that is a fabulous example of waste not want not.
I use sharpies ....but they don't normally reach their first birthday, so respect
. The labels are still readable though
Sharpies should get the job done. They are what golfers use to mark their balls, so they can withstand a fair bit of abuse and still be legible.
Oh...read it properly now.... I see....
I remember using those at school- a long time ago.
I find pencil works well - haven't really looked into decent marker pens. The nurseries must have good ones though - their labels are impossible to re use!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I find a laundry marker pen is much better than so called permanent markers, otherwise a soft, 2B, pencil.
Mine is by Stabilo, Write-4-all. Writes on most things and doesn't come off
In the sticks near Peterborough
New things to try out, great! Thanks!


Beechgrove Garden did a test and silver marker came out best, but they didn't tell us the make. I buy a fine black marker from the Dahlia Society table when I see them at flower shows, it doesn't fade from sunlight, it is made by Edding. Sharpies are no good they fade in sunlight.