[Beepee]

I know we are all suppose to avoid plastic these days but...
I have a lot of plastic plant labels, had some of them for a few years now but I used to struggle a bit to clean them. Always used pencil to write on them, stays for the season so no problem until it came to the cleaning. We've just had a burst of rain so scurried to the shed with the wife's latest kitchen cleaning paste. Supposed to clean almost anything. Well it certainly works billiantly for the plant labels. A damp cloth and a little of the (Bio-mex) paste and the job is done. It's pretty good on the stainless steel kitchen sink as well. 

[snowdrops]

This year I used ‘ the pink stuff’ paste & a kitchen a scratty pad, worked on even waterproof markers etc

[perris]

if you write with pencil you can remove it with a rubber/eraser 

[coldandwindy]

I know we are all suppose to avoid plastic these days but...

Reusing what you've already got is much better than buying new however environmentally friendly the new things are!


I use chinagraph pencil removed with surgical spirit.

[sunnywillow]

I just put mine in a jam jar full of diluted bleach. Leave them overnight or longer and they come up sparkling and bug free

[mumofstig]

I use a permanent marker on mine, and still find that I can scrub it off with one of those sponge scourers with a little neat w/up liquid, plus varying degrees of elbow grease 
Eventually, after a few years, the sun starts to degrade the plastic, then they end up in the recycling bin

[Lardman]

I've written numbers on mine and just make a new key with paper and pen each year. Life is too short to scrub plant labels.