Starting Seeds Indoors
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lesa
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Thanks, boggy! I need to remember that part about labeling seedlings! I always think I have done a good job- and then I end up with a few mystery plants!!
Greenthumb18
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Thanks boggy 
Its a good reminder and gives good tips about starting seeds, I know I just can't wait to get sowing soon!!
Its a good reminder and gives good tips about starting seeds, I know I just can't wait to get sowing soon!!
wifezilla
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I label, then during hardening off the marker always fades so I never know what the heck I am growing! LOL
obsessed
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I have the bio dome from parks and have not figured out how to label the seedlings? I plant them and then write down what I planted but i end up with more " this looks like a pepper" than "definately a hot pepper".
RickF
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I bought some metal signs at Burpee a few years back that you use with a pencil and it's supposed to not come off -- at the end of the season you can use something like steel wool to remove the pencil markings to return the metal to a clean slate of sorts..
Ohh.. Here they are ...
http://www.burpee.com/gardening-supplies/garden-growers/plant-markers-25-pack-prod001290.html
Ohh.. Here they are ...
http://www.burpee.com/gardening-supplies/garden-growers/plant-markers-25-pack-prod001290.html
wifezilla
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Oh cool! Thanks Rick
RustyDHart
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For my veggie plants and marking all of my Dahlias...I use discarded aluminum (I guess they're aluminum) slatted window blinds.... I dismantle them...take the strips and cut them into 5-7 inch pieces and label them with a "Sharpie" pen....I then take a paper punch and punch a hole in one end and tie them to my plants......works for me
digitS'
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Rusty, I bet those Sharpies only work for you because the tags are in the shade of the plants.
A season in the sun and "permanent" marks fade . . . . away.
(It also could be that the metal works better than the plastic I've used.)
Anyway, I got a couple of these pens from Johnny's (click) and they have lasted for several years. The sunshine may make plastic stakes brittle to the point of useless but you can still read what is written . . . unless you put a #13 shoe on 'em or run over 'em with a rototiller. . .
At the end of the season, rubbing alcohol may not clean all of the ink off but it works well enuf that they should be usable again.
Steve
A season in the sun and "permanent" marks fade . . . . away.
(It also could be that the metal works better than the plastic I've used.)
Anyway, I got a couple of these pens from Johnny's (click) and they have lasted for several years. The sunshine may make plastic stakes brittle to the point of useless but you can still read what is written . . . unless you put a #13 shoe on 'em or run over 'em with a rototiller. . .
At the end of the season, rubbing alcohol may not clean all of the ink off but it works well enuf that they should be usable again.
Steve
RustyDHart
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Cool....Thanks for the info
