"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
...

"Sacha" wrote
The problem with all printed labels is the fading over time. In a
private
garden and with enough time to do it, I'd go for lead labels and
'scratch'
what you want onto those. Many places sell them and they're both
attractive
and practical for the private gardener, IMO. Otherwise, my personal
experience is that Dymo labels last as well, if not better, than most
things.

We used Dymo out on the allotment for years on white painted sticks and
now use the Brother Labeller machine most GCs sell and find that they work
even better, not least because you can get black letters on white
background. We stick the labels onto large white plastic labels.

Many thanks all for advice.

I'm probably more fanatical than most about labelling ( Certainly more
fanatical than some nurseries! ) I remember the old grey metal scratch
labels but haven't seen them for years.

Interestingly today, I was very amused to find that one of our most
prominent seed suppliers has been naughty.

I kept my emply packet of a variety of squash from a previous years, as a
reminder to buy some more. Unable to get the original variety, I bought the
nearest to it with a different name and description, but the same supplier
with colourful packet

Examination later revealed that the photo was the same, colour changed
slightly and very thoughtfully reversed, with printing obscuring the most
obvious points of similarity.

My wife's family were all in the seed trade, so I can have an interesting
day or two muttering about marrying into a bunch of rogues.


--
Regards
Pat Gardiner
Test British pigs for MRSA now!
www.go-self-sufficient.com


--
Regards
Bob Hobden

On 10/4/08 17:39, in article , "Pat
Gardiner" wrote:


"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
...

"Sacha" wrote
The problem with all printed labels is the fading over time. In a
private
garden and with enough time to do it, I'd go for lead labels and
'scratch'
what you want onto those. Many places sell them and they're both
attractive
and practical for the private gardener, IMO. Otherwise, my personal
experience is that Dymo labels last as well, if not better, than most
things.

We used Dymo out on the allotment for years on white painted sticks and
now use the Brother Labeller machine most GCs sell and find that they work
even better, not least because you can get black letters on white
background. We stick the labels onto large white plastic labels.

Many thanks all for advice.

I'm probably more fanatical than most about labelling ( Certainly more
fanatical than some nurseries! ) I remember the old grey metal scratch
labels but haven't seen them for years.

I'm thinking of the quite prettily shaped lead ones - faux lead?. I think
the RHS or NT does them, or something similar. And these are attractive
http://www.eclection.net/product_inf...roducts_id=156

Interestingly today, I was very amused to find that one of our most
prominent seed suppliers has been naughty.

I kept my emply packet of a variety of squash from a previous years, as a
reminder to buy some more. Unable to get the original variety, I bought the
nearest to it with a different name and description, but the same supplier
with colourful packet

Examination later revealed that the photo was the same, colour changed
slightly and very thoughtfully reversed, with printing obscuring the most
obvious points of similarity.

My wife's family were all in the seed trade, so I can have an interesting
day or two muttering about marrying into a bunch of rogues.


;-))

Labelling is the bane of our lives - sometimes. You can label as carefully
as you like but customers take stick in labels out of pots, read them and
drop them on the ground or, worse still, put them into the wrong pots. One
day I watched a child, observed by its uncaring mother, wandering up a bank
of plants here, taking labels out of every pot and alternating them with the
next door pat of a totally different species or variety every time. We must
sweep up hundreds of labels every year. Tie-ons don't suffer the same fate
but you can't use those on emerging perennials.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

"Sacha" wrote in message
...
On 10/4/08 17:39, in article , "Pat
Gardiner" wrote:


"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
...

"Sacha" wrote
The problem with all printed labels is the fading over time. In a
private
garden and with enough time to do it, I'd go for lead labels and
'scratch'
what you want onto those. Many places sell them and they're both
attractive
and practical for the private gardener, IMO. Otherwise, my personal
experience is that Dymo labels last as well, if not better, than most
things.

We used Dymo out on the allotment for years on white painted sticks and
now use the Brother Labeller machine most GCs sell and find that they
work
even better, not least because you can get black letters on white
background. We stick the labels onto large white plastic labels.

Many thanks all for advice.

I'm probably more fanatical than most about labelling ( Certainly more
fanatical than some nurseries! ) I remember the old grey metal scratch
labels but haven't seen them for years.

I'm thinking of the quite prettily shaped lead ones - faux lead?. I think
the RHS or NT does them, or something similar. And these are attractive
http://www.eclection.net/product_inf...roducts_id=156

I came across this idea used re-cycled drinks cans, which I thought I'd give
a go:

http://www.runnerduck.com/plant_tags.htm

Mark

I came across this idea used re-cycled drinks cans, which I thought I'd
give a go:

http://www.runnerduck.com/plant_tags.htm

Mark


And then give a coat of varnish to waterproof?

Lovely idea for rainy days :-)

Mike


--
www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association.
'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates.

On 11 Apr, 09:02, "'Mike'" wrote:
I came across this idea used re-cycled drinks cans, which I thought I'd
give a go:

http://www.runnerduck.com/plant_tags.htm

Mark

And then give a coat of varnish to waterproof?

Lovely idea for rainy days :-)

Mike

--www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association.
'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates.

If you are using wire on trees then wind some of it around a cane or
biro to give you what looks like a spring , with this in the loop
around the tree then as the tree grows the wire loop can evpand with
the trunk and not get grown over.
David Hill
Abacus Nurseries

"Dave Hill" wrote in message
...
On 11 Apr, 09:02, "'Mike'" wrote:
I came across this idea used re-cycled drinks cans, which I thought I'd
give a go:

http://www.runnerduck.com/plant_tags.htm

Mark

And then give a coat of varnish to waterproof?

Lovely idea for rainy days :-)

Mike

--www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association.
'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates.

If you are using wire on trees then wind some of it around a cane or
biro to give you what looks like a spring , with this in the loop
around the tree then as the tree grows the wire loop can evpand with
the trunk and not get grown over.
David Hill
Abacus Nurseries

I have some wonderful pictures I took of a tree which had a wire hawser put
round it to support a fence. Completely grown over :-( Which site can I post
them on?

Mike


--
www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association.
'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates.

"'Mike'" wrote in message
...
I have some wonderful pictures I took of a tree which had a wire hawser
put round it to support a fence. Completely grown over :-( Which site can
I post them on?


I use Twango, it works for me. If you don't want to start your own album
send the pics to me and I will put them up on mine for a while for folk to
take a look.

Mike (another one)

In article 24fd4b60-f033-470c-87ea-
,
says...
On 11 Apr, 09:02, "'Mike'" wrote:
I came across this idea used re-cycled drinks cans, which I thought I'd
give a go:

http://www.runnerduck.com/plant_tags.htm

Mark

And then give a coat of varnish to waterproof?

Lovely idea for rainy days :-)

Mike

--www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association.
'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates.

If you are using wire on trees then wind some of it around a cane or
biro to give you what looks like a spring , with this in the loop
around the tree then as the tree grows the wire loop can evpand with
the trunk and not get grown over.
David Hill
Abacus Nurseries

Thats a realy useful tip, you always mean to remember but always seem to
forget!!
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

'Mike' wrote:
I came across this idea used re-cycled drinks cans, which I thought I'd
give a go:

http://www.runnerduck.com/plant_tags.htm

Mark


And then give a coat of varnish to waterproof?

Lovely idea for rainy days :-)

Mike



I don't think waterproofing is necessary - you use the pen to 'emboss'
the metal, rather than to write on it with ink. Not sure what to make of
the label on the reverse side though - it seems it's just to use as a
template to cut around, but I suppose it will eventually weather off,
exposing the paint of the can....

mARK

On 13/4/08 17:39, in article , "Mark
Nicholls" wrote:
snip
I don't think waterproofing is necessary - you use the pen to 'emboss'
the metal, rather than to write on it with ink. Not sure what to make of
the label on the reverse side though - it seems it's just to use as a
template to cut around, but I suppose it will eventually weather off,
exposing the paint of the can....

mARK

Looks finger-shreddin' good to me........
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'