Plenty of places (e bay) for plant labels, (including coloured) good old fashioned HB pencil. I re-use the veg ones, scrubbing off pencil, and starting again. I hate B & Q Verve, find it rubbish, not expensive, buy a good quality compost from local Nursery, cost more, but far better results
I try and avoid them too. I sometimes put a blank label in just to remind myself that there is something hidden just so I don't dig it up. I'm a bit of a nerd and have a plan of the garden where everything is and what it's called.
I actually bought some lovelly rustic wooden plant labels. Folk walk round my garden asking what this that and the other are. Dont forget the lady asking the question, was wanting to label the plants for sale. I cant remember which particular type I have put where I grow about 8 different sorts of tomatos alone, if there was a particularly good crop from one, I want to know what it is! No probs Borababs!
Yes, this thread seems to have diverted somewhat from some simple, cheap labels to use on the plants that I intend to sell, however I have enjoyed reading all the comments and suggestions, there is a huge array of choice - each to their own individual style - luckily we aren't all the same in our choices.
I use like Chicky http://www.labelsnthings.co.uk/acatalog/marker-pens.html found them at a garden show - I buy the garden marker pen it is waterproof does really well lasts long, and they do so many different bright coloured labels which are brill
Guernsey Donkey2, I called you a lady apologies if you are a bloke! Or according to the paper yesterday, one of the other 23 (yup thats right!) gender types
Ha Nanny Beach - last time I look in the mirror a woman looked back at me - but sometimes I feel like the Jack of all trades - digging, weeding, lifting etc. not to mention all the cooking, cleaning & child rearing over the past few decades. I was going to use the name Guernsey Tom but some of the younger growers out there won't remember the days of the Guernsey Tomato - a fond but distant memory.
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Plenty of places (e bay) for plant labels, (including coloured) good old fashioned HB pencil. I re-use the veg ones, scrubbing off pencil, and starting again. I hate B & Q Verve, find it rubbish, not expensive, buy a good quality compost from local Nursery, cost more, but far better results
Sorry nanny beach, just saying that Which Magazine have trialled Verve and 'of those tested' Verve comes out top.
I think it was Gertrude Jekyll who said something along the lines of
" if you must have labels in your garden, make them as big and as ugly as you can. That way you'll soon learn what the plant is and remove the label"
Works for me
I try and avoid them too. I sometimes put a blank label in just to remind myself that there is something hidden just so I don't dig it up. I'm a bit of a nerd and have a plan of the garden where everything is and what it's called.
I actually bought some lovelly rustic wooden plant labels. Folk walk round my garden asking what this that and the other are. Dont forget the lady asking the question, was wanting to label the plants for sale. I cant remember which particular type I have put where I grow about 8 different sorts of tomatos alone, if there was a particularly good crop from one, I want to know what it is! No probs Borababs!
Yes, this thread seems to have diverted somewhat from some simple, cheap labels to use on the plants that I intend to sell, however I have enjoyed reading all the comments and suggestions, there is a huge array of choice - each to their own individual style - luckily we aren't all the same in our choices.
I use like Chicky http://www.labelsnthings.co.uk/acatalog/marker-pens.html found them at a garden show - I buy the garden marker pen it is waterproof does really well lasts long, and they do so many different bright coloured labels which are brill
http://www.labelsnthings.co.uk/acatalog/plant-labels.html - lots of styles of labels
Guernsey Donkey2, I called you a lady apologies if you are a bloke! Or according to the paper yesterday, one of the other 23 (yup thats right!) gender types
Ha Nanny Beach - last time I look in the mirror a woman looked back at me - but sometimes I feel like the Jack of all trades - digging, weeding, lifting etc. not to mention all the cooking, cleaning & child rearing over the past few decades. I was going to use the name Guernsey Tom but some of the younger growers out there won't remember the days of the Guernsey Tomato - a fond but distant memory.