On 8/14/2016 12:09 PM, Markjump wrote:
Hi,

I am growing a little fruit tree in my garden and would like to bind a
paper card to the tree. My problem is how to make the card waterproof?

Thanks alot for your advice.

Two suggestions:

1. Do not use paper. Use aluminum (aluminium?) foil. Place it over a
magazine or newspaper and use a dull pencil to write on it. Be careful
not to pierce the foil. You might want to fold a larger piece of foil
in half to get a thicker medium.

2. Use paper incscribed with a black, broad-pointed pen. When your
writing is quite dry, you will need a cloths iron. Place several
thicknesses of newspaper on an ironing board. Place a sheet of waxed
paper on top. Place your inscribed paper on top of that. Complete the
sandwich with more waxed paper and then severl thicknesses of newspaper.
Iron the sandwich with a very hot iron. The wax will melt and
penetrate your inscribed paper, making it waterproof. The newspaper is
to prevent the wax from melting into the cover of the ironing board or
from fouling the working surface of the cloths iron. (However, my
mother would occasionally run her cloths iron directly over waxed paper
while the iron was cold; she said it was to improve how the iron would
glide over the clothing she was ironing.)

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David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary