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Daisy
True Blue Farmgirl
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Daisy
Thistle Sprig Farm
NW Indiana
USA
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 Posted - Jun 09 2007 : 2:27:04 PM
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What do you use in your gardens to mark your rows or plants? I was hoping to find some creative ideas here!
Daisy
Thistle Sprig Farm |
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
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Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 05:44:17 AM
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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!
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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BotanicalBath
True Blue Farmgirl
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Elizabeth
Ohio
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 1:44:22 PM
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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
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 2:06:28 PM
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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.
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 4:03:26 PM
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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
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 4:22:45 PM
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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!
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." Margaret Atwood
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Runbikegrrl
True Blue Farmgirl
250 Posts
MaryAnn
Waterbury Ctr
VT
USA
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Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 5:13:52 PM
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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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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 10:48:58 PM
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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.
>^..^< Happiness is being a katmom.
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1646 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
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Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 11:16:02 PM
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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!!
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jun 11 2007 : 07:50:21 AM
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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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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Jun 11 2007 : 10:24:41 AM
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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
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Jun 11 2007 : 3:56:20 PM
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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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Horseyrider
True Blue Farmgirl
1045 Posts
Mary Ann
Illinois
1045 Posts |
Posted - Jun 12 2007 : 09:58:27 AM
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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?  |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Jun 12 2007 : 12:36:02 PM
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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.
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Cindy Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
510 Posts
Cindy
Sparks
Nevada
USA
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Posted - Jun 12 2007 : 10:50:27 PM
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| 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 |
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 13 2007 : 5:32:47 PM
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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.
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live." Vita Sackville-West
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Cindy Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
510 Posts
Cindy
Sparks
Nevada
USA
510 Posts |
Posted - Jun 14 2007 : 4:09:52 PM
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| Marcia...Very cute! That would look geat! Cindy |
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Love-in-a-Mist
True Blue Farmgirl
367 Posts
Shannon
Independence
Oregon
USA
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