[andreadon]

I use china markers for my labels- cleans off easilywhen you do the rounds with the jeyes fluid.
We used to use them when i worked at burger king for marking the wrappers, and i'm afraid i might have found a couple in my pocket when i left.
quite accidentally, i promise.

[David.]

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

Have you never heard of pencil erasers?

Yes, but I'm using/re-using approx. 400 of them:



(the other 100 are in use/awaiting a clean), I simply write in permanent marker over the initial  pencil writing, and if it re-appears after bleaching, do that again and again until it's worn off.

[mucky pup]

Hi, I clean off old writing with steel wool or dry Brillo pads, only the odd label needs wetting,then rinse the lot, and leave to dry. Good job for a wet day, or an excuse for a sit down. I use my labels over and over again  :happy:     

[hindy]

Why do they make the plant labels too big for propogators ?
I had to cut some down recently.

[Elaine G]

Funny you should say that Hindy, I bought some shorter ones in Wilkinsons today for just that purpose!

Elaine

[sunshineband]

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

Sounds too sticky too me!

I used supposedly permanent marker and it has already faded to light purple Oh well 

[Kristen]

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

Been doing that for many a year, but the labels I bought last year were so shiny that a pencil wouldn't work So I wrote on them with permanent marker - without realising that would fade to nothing with a few weeks of sunshine

[sclarke624]

Kristen Tesco plantlabels are easy to write on with pencil and they are cheap.  Go end of season but but not too late or their gardening stuff is away and they are even cheaper.  Been there with the shiny ones.  Asda are quite cheap as well will have to check how shiny theres are next timeI want to travel all theway to Havant as our council (Arun) in there wisdom were too snobby for an asda's to be allowed here.

[sunshineband]

Also helps if you write the correct name on them in the first place  Thought those chillis came up quick  and looked odd -- fennel

[sclarke624]

or put a label in with nothing written on it.

[sunshineband]

or put a label in with nothing written on it.

hahahahah Surprise 

[celjaci]

If you want really permanent labels for marking garden plants then plastic will never do, eventually it goes brittle and breaks off.
The Victorians used to use lead stamped with letters for fruit trees and I have sen some of these, well over 100 years old and still legible.
I am using some thin aluminium sheet labels, written in pencil - they will probably outlast the plants and me!