Garden labels

Hi All

I need to get some gardening labels but ones that last ages or forever, my last lot I had in my old house a rat decided to take them out of the pots and add it to its nesting area under next door's shed , it stated with a couple going missing then over a week out of 30 I was left with 2 gutted as it was my agapanthus crosses and I had both parents on the label. Then it started to collect the pots with the plants in as I watched out the kitchen window only little pots:D



Dont ask what happened to it best not to know



Thanks

Spruce

 

Long shot: Print on your printer, cut out, laminate (so the laminate overlaps itself, rather than just onto the paper).

Brother "dymno" style labeller?

 

What Happened Next ?

I make plant lables out of used plastic bottles. Cheap and cheerfull but it does the job.

 

A kleptomaniac rat,, know the feeling Spruce I thought I'd at last found a label that didn't fade or rub off, the T shaped copper ones, didn't think of the flippin magpies that love anything shiny, keep finding them all over the place, hopefully be better when they've aged a bit, have recently found some better ones in Wilkinsons that have long prongs to stick them in the ground hopefully they'll be harder for them to pull out.

 

What Happened Next ?

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:mousewheel: I heard a very large snap !!!!! and it wasnt a branch:D



Spruce

 

:DOH:

You're right, I shouldn't have asked.

When I think of plant lables, I really miss those machines that used to be found at railway stations in the 1960s. No, not Steam Engines:D. The lable maker machines that printed out onto a strip of metal.

Anyone else remember them ? Would have been ideal for permanent lables.

 

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Ok. my pennys worth.
If you want very cheap labels, get yourself a thin permanent marker pen, and plastic milk containers.
Cut it up into plant label shapes, mark them up and off you go.

 

There used to be one in Hastings Railway Station. My Dad would help me print a lable with my name on it every summer holiday.

It was like a dymo lable maker but the size of a speak your weight machine.

Suprised there isn't one at the railway museum in York.[hr]

Must have been a penny, Dad wouldn't have coughed up a tanner

I guess dymo made them obsolete. Just had a look for one on ebay, no luck, but you can buy a 1970s dymo lable maker for $14, still in its box.

 

"Suprised there isn't one at the railway museum in York."

Guess what Ziggy. Heres one I found in the Railway Musuem

 

Thats the Badger

Don't remember it costing 10p though

Well found Sargent. I just scoured the net & couldn't find one:DOH:[hr]
More from The British Automatic Company Ltd,

http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections/collections/search-results/display.php?irn=63287&newsearch=new&person=British+Automatic+Company+Ltd&keywords=&title=&place=&date=&material=&accessionnumber=&Sender=List&Page=1

Sorry Spruce, I seem to have hijacked your thread in a fit of lable induced railway romanticism.:DOH:

 

A stealing rat, no way!

Well, Ziggy's idea of plastic bottles made me think of cutting some useless CDs and writing the names with a permanent marker. I will need quite some labelling this season.