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| On the next planting I will use those plastic things you write on and stick in the ground. Please see attached pic. What is this veggie I planted? Currently it is the size of a baseball. (veggie is larger one that is dead center of picture) Thanks again. btw, what do you call those little plastic things that you can write the I.D. and stick em in the ground? |
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- Posted by naturegirl_2007 5B SW Michigan (My Page) on Sat, Mar 1, 14 at 12:15
| Looks like lettuce, perhaps a romaine variety. Plastic labels are sold by many seed racks, but you can cut up an old plastic milk jug or other container if needed. Writing on them with a soft lead pencil gives a label that doesn't fade but is hard to see unless you are up close. Regular Sharpie markers fade over time in bright sun. Sharpie Industrial markers have worked well for me with almost no fading through the whole season. So glad I found them at Staples last year. I've cut up old mini blinds for labels, too. You get a LOT of them from a set of old blinds! |
Here is a link that might be useful: My favorite garden marker
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| I also say some kind of lettuce : Romaine, chicory About plant tag: When in HD,I go to "BLINDS" section . They usually have a bucket full of blind end cuts just grab as much as I need. Nowadays they are wider. I cut them into 3 stripes. |
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- Posted by theforgottenone1013 5b/6a MI (My Page) on Sat, Mar 1, 14 at 13:43
| Agree with the others about the ID and also agree about using window blinds as plant tags. Rodney |
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| Agree withe the lettuce id. Didn't know about using blinds! My garden is a little rough for id tags, and the dog is always in and out of it, so another idea, that I use: I draw a map of the garden, and when I plant something I fill it in on the map, with the date I planted it. The map then helps me with crop rotation the next few years. |
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| Looks like a lettuce to me too. But maybe a cabbage also. That's a good idea elisa. Especially for the rotation thing. After a couple years of gardening, I pretty much knew what each plant looked like. Peppers, because I grow many varieties, are a different story if I grow multiple varieties where the pods look similar to another. Screwed up last year with my superhot varieties. Regarding the rotation, I usually just try to recollect when I had such or such where. Probably won't work so well when I get old-timer's disease. ;) Kevin |
This post was edited by woohooman on Sat, Mar 1, 14 at 16:14
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| Even if the tag was missing, one should know what she/he planted there. Secondly, most garden vegetables are easy to identify close by and by tasting. Unless it is some kind of volunteer . Having said that, often it is not possible to ID varieties of things like tomato b/c there so many varieties. So it makes sense to tag them if you want to save seeds from those. |
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