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| Daisy |
Posted - Jun 09 2007 : 2:27:04 PM
What do you use in your gardens to mark your rows or plants? I was hoping to find some creative ideas here!
Daisy
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| Love-in-a-Mist |
Posted - Jun 14 2007 : 4:29:52 PM
A real easy one that I'm going to do is paint the names on rocks.
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| Cindy Lee |
Posted - Jun 14 2007 : 4:09:52 PM
Marcia...Very cute! That would look geat! Cindy |
| Celticheart |
Posted - Jun 13 2007 : 5:32:47 PM
I don't have a favorite but I know what I want. Use broken pieces of terra cotta pots and copper wire. You can paint the name on the terra cotta or use a sharpie and then bend the copper wire into interesting shapes. I saw it somewhere but forget where now. I haven't tried it yet but plan to.
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| Cindy Lee |
Posted - Jun 12 2007 : 10:50:27 PM
Mary Ann, That is the best idea I have heard in a long time! It would be SOOO cute! Now I have to go and find some old forks!! Cindy |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 12 2007 : 12:36:02 PM
Mary Ann- I think that is a really cute idea! You could even use a Sharpie to write on the tin, if you can't find a grease marker.
Alee |
| Horseyrider |
Posted - Jun 12 2007 : 09:58:27 AM
I have some fancy ones I got from Burpee, but I think I have another idea for next year.
I was at the antique store and saw a bag of mixed patterns of old silverplate flatware for five bucks. I wanted the butter knives because they made them wide and paddle-like in the old days. But I had quite a few forks and a couple of spoons leftover. I dropped those extras into a little white cream pitcher on the table and looked at them. And to me, the forks look like they want another life as row markers. If I can come up with little bits of flexible tin to slide between the tines, and a grease marker, well, I'll have something that'll be a head start to the kitchen table, eh?  |
| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Jun 11 2007 : 3:56:20 PM
I cut up old vinyl blinds and use them for plant markers. It makes a great mindless project for the winter.
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 11 2007 : 1:10:12 PM
Oh ..have fun Alee...I wish I were joining you!!!
Jenny in Utah
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 11 2007 : 10:24:41 AM
Aunt Jenny- You are right! I am pretty sure it is in MaryJane's book! LOL I knew I had heard that idea before, but I just couldn't put my finger on it! I am on a trip right now so I don't have her Ideabook with me or I would have surely remembered it was in there! LOL
Alee |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jun 11 2007 : 07:50:21 AM
do any of you gurlz have the 'can opener' that doesn't leave any 'sharp edges'? oh gosh! i got one .. and the tops are so smooth .. would be worth it to buy one just to use these for 'plant stakes' .. i got mine at Bed Bath and Beyond for twenty bucks .. loved it so much .. i got one for each of my daughters too. makes a great gift. ask for one for your next 'gift gittin' event'! xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| DaisyFarm |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 11:16:02 PM
I recycle bleach, milk and fabric softener jugs. From two half-gallon jugs I can get enough pot markers to last me a season, less of course if I cut large ones for marking garden rows. They are durable and last season to season. Also from those jugs, I get two "trays" (the bottoms) to put inside hanging baskets to hold water better and two great funnels with handles!!
Di |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 11:09:42 PM
I actually found some metal plant markers with the permanent ink pen at Target in their dollar section. 5 for $1 -- bought two sets.
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| katmom |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 10:48:58 PM
I have a small laminator machine, so when planting seeds, I cute the front picture off the seed packet & laminate it then I punch 2 small holes(1@top & 1 @ bottom) & run a scewer through the 2 holes & stick it in the ground buy the matched seeds planted.
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| Runbikegrrl |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 5:13:52 PM
I am so bad I don't mark I just guess...someday I will be organized enough to get to those little details like markers
"So many interests so little time!"
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 4:22:45 PM
I just use those zinc or tin silvery ones? The ones you can write on with the pottery marker. They're cheap and they hold up to the elements.
I love the lid idea, but I'd have to quit my job to do one for all the plants I have!
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 4:03:26 PM
Oh my gosh..I forgot that idea..it is in MJ's big book isn't it?? In the section with all the great ideas using cans. Or was that in one of the magazines? I forget..either way..great idea!! I bet used canning jar lids (the flat part)would work too. I always have more of those than regular can lids..and they are smooth on the edge too.
Jenny in Utah
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 2:06:28 PM
You can take the top off a large metal can, draw on the name of the plant and then use a nail to punch holes along the name. Then nail it to a stake and pound in to the ground near your plants! Just make sure the edges are tamped down so they won't be sharp.
Alee |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 1:44:22 PM
I am never happy with my motley collection of plastic and wooden ones. I would love to find some as nice as the herb markers I find here and there. I like ot mark where my carrots and beets and lettuce mix is planted before they come up especially! I use the little white plastic storebought tags for my tomatoes to mark which variety they are...I usually have at least 8 different types and I hate when I can't remember which is which!
Jenny in Utah
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| BotanicalBath |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 11:52:09 AM
I just got a kiln, so I will be making ones for all of my odd ball tomaotes.
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| brightmeadow |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 05:44:17 AM
I usually just use plastic or wooden ones that they sell at the garden center, but a few weeks ago when starting seeds, I ran out of those and looked around my house for something else. What I found was those Solo plastic drink cups, colored on the outside and white on the inside. I just cut from the rim of the cup down to the bottom in straight lines about 3/4 inch apart(ending up with something that looked like a flower with petals), then cut each spoke off. I wrote on the white side with a sharpie marker. They are stiff, durable, and should last forever... Practical, but not entirely decorative!
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