I forgot to update a label last year and I’m kicking myself now!
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I write my temporary labels with school pencil. They are UV resistant. I have one label from the last year and it looks like new.
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Maria,
What is " school pencil"., please?
What material dO you write it on?
Regular yellow pencil number 2.
I used high quality lab tape. However I ran out of it and I am using cheap masking tape, which works fine so far. Here is the picture of the last year label.
This year label.
Impressive. Thanks, Maria.
I use plastic labels from several sources on Amazon. I put them on as temporary tags.
Well, I’ve just realized that they are not the same quality. Some are more brittle than the others. Today, while going around to put permanent tags on, I found a couple tags that broke off.
It would be interesting to figure out what varieties of one apricot and a peach will be!!!.
these aren’t really temporary, but they were easy enough to make…cut up a bear can with some metal shears…took a little bit to get used to writing everything backwards, after a few slips ups I got the hand of it…
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The extreme sharpies have UV resistant ink.
I bought a bundle of aluminum labels with some metal strings attached to use as marking items. I tried the tape, plastic strips, etc, with little or no success. These you use a pencil or pen to indent the metal to put whatever info you want on the label. I bought them through ebay and I think it was a pack of 50. Not expensive since I wasted so much time, effort, and money on things that did not work. These will last and you can actually read them years from now.
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In general I use impresso aluminum tags but on this tag I was either running low or did not expect the graft to be successful. It’s probably one that won’t bear pears for 10 years!
I tried cutting up pie tins into 1 1/2" strips and using Dymo embossing tape on them. I punched a hole with a paper punch. This spring I found a bunch of labels on the ground where the wire had ripped out the aluminum, so that idea was a dud. Dymo on a fence post works if you don’t move fences around. Just wipe new metal posts with alcohol first.