Have a great invention to help with gardening? Are you the self-reliant type that prefers Building It Yourself vs. buying it? Share and discuss your ideas and projects with other members.
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April 13, 2012 | #31 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Whidbey Island, WA Zone 7, Sunset 5
Posts: 931
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I'm a Yankee from Connecticut and Cape Cod. I believe in
"Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do. Or do without." But I also know that life is not a dress rehearsal, and I buy my labels. It's $2.95 for 100. I just like them to be the same, easy to read, and not something I have to go and make another one of if one gets broken or goes missing. Gathering and making labels is just too time consuming. If I'm going to buy Tomato Tone and Sluggo and all those other things for my garden, most of which will set me back nearly $12-20 every time I think about using it, and I have to spend hours setting up lights and watering and fertilizing and such, I think I deserve to have a couple hundred labels that I don't have to use scissors to make. Nor do I have to go around gathering 'stuff' to make them out of. Life's too short. j |
April 14, 2012 | #32 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Laurinburg, North Carolina, zone 7
Posts: 3,207
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April 14, 2012 | #33 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Laurinburg, North Carolina, zone 7
Posts: 3,207
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This is what I'm going to start doing. Much easier, too!
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April 14, 2012 | #34 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Laurinburg, North Carolina, zone 7
Posts: 3,207
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I have been thinking about getting a wood burner. I also saved a bunch of very sturdy metal pieces from when we made 8 foot panels out of a roll of CRW.
Thinking of a way to make cute garden labels out of these, somehow. |
April 15, 2012 | #35 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Walla Walla, Washington
Posts: 360
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My sister, the yard sale specialist, buys white plastic knives whenever she can find them. She writes the name of the plant on the blade with either a grease pencil or a Sharpie, and has a great marker for very little cash. I don't go to yard sales anymore, so my husband bought me a box of 400 or 500 at Costco for about $9, so I am set for a good long while.
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April 25, 2012 | #36 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: PNW
Posts: 4,743
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I collect political signs littering empty lots and so on after elections.
I cut them up into strips a few inches long, and write on them with black Sharpie Industrial markers. No problem. (I ran out this spring before I ran out of seedlings, and I had to cut up an empty Clorox bottle to make a few more. Good contrast.)
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April 25, 2012 | #37 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Latrobe Pa.
Posts: 142
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White 5 gallon buckts are everywhere and can be cut up in a 100 strips with tin snipps. Even the bake shops sell the white buckets for a $1. The dollar store has white buckets for a #1. I like the long wide craft sticks at the dollar or craft store cheap. They are about 8 inches long. i cut them in half on a angle and have two 4 inch sticks!
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April 25, 2012 | #38 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: PNW
Posts: 4,743
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These are the markers I use:
http://www.uline.com/BL_1701/Sharpie-Industrial-Markers (One can get these at Office Depot, Staples, etc, in 3-packs.) I have also had good success with these not washing off or fading: http://www.earthstarproducts.com/PER...KERS_c_18.html I have not used paint markers for this, but I would expect them to last as well: http://www.staples.com/uni-Paint-Mar...duct_SS1003205
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