[lordthanatos]

hiya im about to label up where everything is going to to on my plot - are there any cheap home made label ideas anyone has

I was thinking of cutting up some milk bottles and using them?

any ideas?

[rhysdad]

That's quite a good one anyway as it goes, the cravendale one's would be very good as they are white....

[Rhiannon]

Sounds good to me .

[Swing Swang]

Shirt collar stiffeners make good labels (need to buy a lot of shirts mind you)

[prakash_mib]

milk bottles are good but last year they got washed away with sharpies ink in mine.
other best way (if you are bit greener) is  to not to use plastic but use ICE lolly sticks. which means you dont need to pick the plastics from your plot.
I have a diary this year rather than going for labels.

[Kristen]

I draw a plan of the patch and record the names on that.  I have labels, which use indelible markers, which I use on seedlings in pots etc., but once planted out I mark up the plan and put the labels away for next year. In the past the labels have got eaten by the dog / break because they get brittle in the sun, faded in the sun etc., so have not really been all that much good.

[mumofstig]

milk bottle plastic is a bit too bendy, I find. Marge tub plastic works better..........I am using quite a fetching shade of yellow this week  

[chrisnchris]

milk bottle plastic is a bit too bendy, I find. Marge tub plastic works better..........I am using quite a fetching shade of yellow this week  

Same here, cut up a couple yesterday 

[JohnB47]

I use cut-up milk containers to make labels but I use them only for seed trays and pots. When I plant out I make a note of what's where in my diary. Just been looking at my last years entries - it's amazing what you forget, or maybe it's just me.   

[eli]

i use cut-up plastic takeaway containers, the see-through plastic kind, and i write on them with a marker pen :-)

[Kleftiwallah]

There is a business near me making signs for shops etc and they have oodles of stiff white plastic off-cuts.    Have a look in your local telephone book, you may have one also.   Cheers,   Tony.

[upert]

i've lost more writing off labels than i care to remember. indelible my eye.

[mumofstig]

I'm still picking out labels from last year and they still have the writing on them.....pencil 

[Yorkie]

Mum beat me to it - use pencil every time 

[operabunny]

Yup, pencil for me too. Never seems to come off in the rain but comes off if rubbed so you can reuse them.