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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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  • DinahDinah Posts: 294

    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.

  • chickychicky Posts: 10,409

    I use sharpies ....but they don't normally reach their first birthday, so respectimage.  The labels are still readable thoughimage

  • 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.

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    pansyface wrote (see)

    I must ask OH how he marks his balls. No hairs on the Chinagraph.image

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    Oh...read it properly now.... I see....image

    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!

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,032

    I find a laundry marker pen is much better than so called permanent markers, otherwise a soft, 2B, pencil.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Mine is by Stabilo, Write-4-all. Writes on most things and doesn't come off



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DinahDinah Posts: 294

    New things to try out, great! Thanks!imageimageimage

  • 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.

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