Bill who putters wrote:

....
speaking of bleach, i forgot to
mention that i have to clean and
sterilize between seasons for
some of these.


I use remay hold down plastic red spikes to mark locations. These
bleach white and break in a few years.

in the ground spikes? for cosmos i need
markers that hang per flower stalk or
branch, for iris i need per stalk and per
flower markers. they have to be light
enough and also sturdy enough. in the
past i've used twisty ties but they degrade
or break off, so i moved to dental floss,
but that was a pain if i wanted to add
any more coding to an existing tag.

this year it is likely i'm skipping the
fine cosmo tweaking and will have to
be happy with thinning plants i'm going
to be tied up with other projects shortly.


Also use surveying ceramic stakes for identifying other task required
plants.

i have tons of old ulility marker stakes
(plastic) cut into different lengths and
some painted different colors and then
we had some old weed wacker strings
(red) that i cut into lengths, and then i
have some metal stakes too and ...
so a real hodgepodge and it would be
nice to get a few hundred of some kind
that will hold up for at least 10yrs in
the ground without any UVrot or
fungal troubles.


Stakes are 30 inch long and 3/8 inch diameter in bright red
and yellow. Cost more should be 20 years or so.

hmm, sounds nice for marking a long
term planting that goes dormant mid-summer
and then i wonder where it is because the
hole from the stalk fills in...


songbird