[bally]

the lolly stick type,go to kentuckey fried chicken and help your self to the coffee stirrers ,i get a pocket full every time i go in      

[Charlwood1005]

In times of crisis I cut up my milk cartons and write on the plastic.  Out of a 2 litre carton you can get loads of labels.

[Jeanieblue]

Write in pencil and you can clean them and use them again!

[GrannieAnnie]

I also cut up empty plastic milk bottles and also margarine tub lids.  KFC no good for me, as we never go in there.  Nasty people KFC!!!!

[compostqueen]

I use cut up milk cartons for labels too. The long winter nights just fly by  

[noshed]

I am posh and buy mine in Tescos for 80p

[lfcevans]

I`m trying to be enviromentally friendly and not only recycling my labels, but also have labels that will bio-degrade  over time. I know the best intentions get way-laid after a while, but I will try my best and use as many lolly sticks as possible....just hope their from a sustainable source.

[woodburner]

When scrounging cardboard from a local supermarket, I discovered I had also scrounged a lot of promotional advertising plastic thingies, the sort that they put in the strip where the prices go and a big label sort of hangs forward. Well anyway they were in bunches of ten in various coloured backgrounds, so cut into strips they make bunches of 60 colour coded plant labels   Plus the narrow white strip with a block on the end makes perfect 'T' shaped labels for writing on :o  so with half a dozen bunches I have 60 of those too Should keep me going for a while . . .

[kezlou]

I just use broken pegs that have fallen off my line.
Old bits of plastic that type of thing. At the moment the pegs are keeping the slugs of my spinach whoo hoo  

[iwantanallotment]

I use milk cartons & marg lids too, in fact any plastic bottles/tubs/cartons...Comfort bottles are fab, and used a bleach bottle today. Lots of nice colours  
I use washing pegs too kezlou, as plant clips on peas/beans.
Plastic egg cartons I sow lettuce in - one per 'hole' - they're just big enough to raise the lettuces to planting size, and the lid can act as a propagator in the cold.
It's great fun, eyeing up the rubbish and thinking "hmmmm....what could I use that for...."
Also means less rubbish put out for the binmen, which can't be bad.

[iwantanallotment]

At the moment the pegs are keeping the slugs of my spinach whoo hoo  

How does that work then, kezlou?  :?

[SkipRat]

Keep an eye out in skips etc for them cheap plastic venetian blinds. cut up you get thousands out of them, and because they have a slight texture to them they are ideal to use a pencil on them..

[kezlou]

At the moment the pegs are keeping the slugs of my spinach whoo hoo  

How does that work then, kezlou?  :?

I dip the pegs in salt after i written on them, then put them into the pot / ground with the veg. Slugs seem to lick them and die, found a pile next to my spinach again today it was rank.

[compostqueen]

My mate has some wooden Venetian blinds which he cut up years ago and every year he paints em with emulsion and they're good for another year.  He made them quite long so he can use big writing    Easy to see what he's planted though so a good idea  

[gus]

I use the cut up wood from a slatted bed base they are sturdy and i have been using them for a few years now