Common household items you use to grow fruit

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My tree labels are made by cutting aluminum cans with kitchen shears, use paper punch to make hole for the tie, use ball point pen to write graft details, using a soft paper pad so the pen embosses the aluminum.

Tree ties for tags

I use aluminum plates from printing presses. They can be cut with scissors or a paper cutting shear, and pencil seems to be permanentn on them. Of course thy can be scratched too, but I stopped scratching them since the pencil works so well. But it’s not just aluminum, there is some kind of coating on them. You can usually get them for scrap prices and cut them to any size. I use copper or brass wire. Only caveat is to poke a small hole and twist the wire tight around the tag so it can’t f…

In addition to this discussion, once I cut my aluminum roof flashing into small strips, I put a bunch of pieces together and use vice grips to hold them together then drill the holes all at once. It saves a lot of time. I also trim all the corners to be more rounded like a text bubble, then etch each side with an engraver. A dremel with a diamond tip works too.

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My garden row labels are strips cut from plastic bottles (shampoo, detergent), write on with permanent marker.

This is a great idea! I’ll be using it this year. They make paint pens in different colors (my boss gets black, white and yellow). Those would surely last at least a season.