[sclarke624]

The Asda stirring sticks you have in the cafe at Asda make great plant labels.  Of course I am talking about the one that came with my drink that I took home and washed!!!

[mumofstig]

i just cut up my plastic milk 'bottles' into strips and use permanent marker

[David.]

I use a 'permanent' marker on proper shop bought plant labels (only bought when 50 - 75% off at Wilkos), then erase the writing using the cheapest thin bleach available(approx 15p/litre) which is then re-used for household purposes (and that bleach may have been used for cleaning demijons first).

So I've got a couple of hundred that I use year after year.

[Elcie]

I have replaced the icecream with ice lollies - mini-milks for the kids.  This means they get a treat and I get a free stick with every lolly!

[BestBreast]

Last year I used coloured lollypop sticks. (They came from Woolies in a craft selection for £1) It worked well, I made a list and by different pots and sticks I knew what everything was.

[Paul Plots]

I use a 'permanent' marker on proper shop bought plant labels (only bought when 50 - 75% off at Wilkos), then erase the writing using the cheapest thin bleach available(approx 15p/litre) which is then re-used for household purposes (and that bleach may have been used for cleaning demijons first).

So I've got a couple of hundred that I use year after year.

Bleach to clean last year's used labels is a simple and brilliant idea!

Thanks - I am going to remember that one - so simple I don't know why I didn't think of it

Your suggestion appreciated! 

[Ice]

Write on them with a good old fashioned pencil.  Easy to erase and a bit more environmentally friendly.

[David.]

Write on them with a good old fashioned pencil.  Easy to erase and a bit more environmentally friendly.

You're absoblutely right there - and bleach will not clean pencil writing off a plant label! [1]

But I have problems finding "a good old fashioned pencil" these days that doesn't fade away when used outdoors.

My dodgy eyesight also means I wouldn't be able to see pencil writing on a label at ground level at the plot.

And when I bleach my labels, I use bleach that has already been used several times for cleaning heavily encrusted demijohns and is then subsequentley used for bog standard uses.

[1] I know this because I use pencils for marking all the labels I use in my greenhouse.

[Larkshall]

You're absoblutely right there - and bleach will not clean pencil writing off a plant label! [1]

Have you never heard of pencil erasers?

[Paul Plots]

Ah.........but bleach would kill off all those nasty little invisible microbiological little things that might have survived in last years compost and infected the labels.........and grow even bigger in this years compost.... and cause the seedlings to keel over...... perhaps?

No? :blink:

OK......I'll try the pencil and rubber

[Poolfield2]

Ah.........but bleach would kill off all those nasty little invisible microbiological little things that might have survived in last years compost and infected the labels.........and grow even bigger in this years compost.... and cause the seedlings to keel over...... perhaps?

No? :blink:

OK......I'll try the pencil and rubber

or cream cleaner?

[madcat]

Many moons ago my uncle went to teach in the US ....  and asked for a rubber from stationary stores.   He got a very funny look.   

Erm ... it means something else there ... as was explained by the school secretary ....

[Paul Plots]

OK.... no "rubbers". [I shgould have known better]....but I like the cream-cleaner idea!!

[Ice]

If you ask for durex in Australia I believe you will get sellotape.

[Paul Plots]

If you ask for durex in Australia I believe you will get sellotape.

Sounds too sticky too me!