Ladybird: I think BLT has a "patent pending" or something like that! But if you're quick, you can beat the Patent Office
Perhaps we should let this thread develop into other sorts of ideas that posters have had that save money, recycle stuff and generally add to our collective gardening experience?
For the record, I have (and I know lots of others have done this, too) cut plastic milk bottles into strips and used them as plant labels.
Also - and this is a tip that I picked up from somewhere, but I think is genius: When you have lots of different seedlings being pricked out and potted on, label one - and then stick a piece of coloured drinking straw in the pot. all other seedlings only need a bit of the same coloured straw cut to a suitable length for instant ID. Well, unless you have lots and lots and lots of seedlings, and there's a limit on the number coloured straws! (You don't have to keep writing the same plant name over an over, either).
Nope no patent pending and any lil ideas that work are good.. Re the shading there is another form of white shading that my old mum used to use.. A bottle of 'Windolene'.. You apply it with a couple of cotton wool balls in a circular motiom let it dry.. looks like white wash but oh so much easier to clear off...
Crikey BLT - I remember that Windolene! Do they still make it? I thought it was all Mr Muscle or whatever in a spray bottle! (And when my mum used the Windolene, there was always a smear in the corner of the window pane that hadn't been wiped off! 'Course, that could be because she was a rubbish windowcleaner, I suppose )
Crikey BLT - I remember that Windolene! Do they still make it? I thought it was all Mr Muscle or what ever in a spray bottle! (And when my mum used the Windolene, there was always a smear in the corner of the window pane that hadn't been wiped off! 'Course, that could be because she was a rubbish windowcleaner, I suppose )
I have a bottle of it, its pink had it a while cos I do not use it to clean my windows.. But it works..
There is also a concoction you can make out of talc and methelated spirits apply in the same way... We used to use this to clean laboratory glassware many moons ago and when you go to clean it off your windows or glass in the greenhouse glass it come up sparkling.
Kiwi shoe white is gonna cost a bomb to do even a lil greenhouse..
But that shoe whitener used to bring up your tennis shoes a real treat (in the days before the ubiquitous trainers, of course). And you knew it was summer 'cos your plimsolls (daps) were white rather than the winter black.
Sorry Papi Jo - it was just my (childish) sense of humour, having suffered many a long year of "stuff" inserted into all available spaces in the garage (And the shed. And the loft). I really ought to think a bit harder before posting - our own "in-jokes" don't often translate to the written word. (But it does conjure up wonderful images!)
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Ladybird: I think BLT has a "patent pending" or something like that! But if you're quick, you can beat the Patent Office
Perhaps we should let this thread develop into other sorts of ideas that posters have had that save money, recycle stuff and generally add to our collective gardening experience?
For the record, I have (and I know lots of others have done this, too) cut plastic milk bottles into strips and used them as plant labels.
Also - and this is a tip that I picked up from somewhere, but I think is genius: When you have lots of different seedlings being pricked out and potted on, label one - and then stick a piece of coloured drinking straw in the pot. all other seedlings only need a bit of the same coloured straw cut to a suitable length for instant ID. Well, unless you have lots and lots and lots of seedlings, and there's a limit on the number coloured straws! (You don't have to keep writing the same plant name over an over, either).
Nope no patent pending and any lil ideas that work are good.. Re the shading there is another form of white shading that my old mum used to use.. A bottle of 'Windolene'.. You apply it with a couple of cotton wool balls in a circular motiom let it dry.. looks like white wash but oh so much easier to clear off...
Crikey BLT - I remember that Windolene! Do they still make it? I thought it was all Mr Muscle or whatever in a spray bottle! (And when my mum used the Windolene, there was always a smear in the corner of the window pane that hadn't been wiped off! 'Course, that could be because she was a rubbish windowcleaner, I suppose
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i guess if they don't make windowlene anymore you could use calomine lotion haha it dries the same doesn't it
Other brands are available!
I have a bottle of it, its pink had it a while cos I do not use it to clean my windows.. But it works..
There is also a concoction you can make out of talc and methelated spirits apply in the same way... We used to use this to clean laboratory glassware many moons ago and when you go to clean it off your windows or glass in the greenhouse glass it come up sparkling.
Kiwi shoe white is gonna cost a bomb to do even a lil greenhouse..
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But that shoe whitener used to bring up your tennis shoes a real treat (in the days before the ubiquitous trainers, of course). And you knew it was summer 'cos your plimsolls (daps) were white rather than the winter black.
"Suppository" as in "a solid dosage form that is inserted into the rectum, where it dissolves or melts and exert local or systemic effects."?
Sorry Papi Jo - it was just my (childish) sense of humour, having suffered many a long year of "stuff" inserted into all available spaces in the garage (And the shed. And the loft). I really ought to think a bit harder before posting - our own "in-jokes" don't often translate to the written word. (But it does conjure up wonderful images!)