"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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I cut some strips of white plastic from yogurt pots and wrote the
information in CD writers (Spouse got them very cheaply from Lidl
yeterday).
Then with a paper punch I made a hole towards one end of the strip,
threaded
a plant tie through the hole and attached it to the stem. So easy!
[...]

Could you let us know later on if the CD marker fades, please?

LOL! If I remember :-)

I found
fading with ordinary permanent felt markers,

Oh, I didn't find that but they were expensive and we use them for other
applications - that's why I used the cheap CD ones.

and changed to
old-fashioned chinagraph, which seems to last longer than the plastic
itself. For some things I made extra-long labels and wrote on both ends
so that the buried end was protected from light.

My problem with buried ones is that they tend to migrate :-(

Mary

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Mike.