While roaming around my local
Then sanity
reigned. This is just silly. Put down the cute plant markers. Think of
something else. So I did Popsicle sticks. I even mentioned them in an earlier
blog post. They are super inexpensive and you can find them at any chain big
box store, Target, Wal-mart, etc. But they are so tiny, and I want my plant
markers to be big enough to read without getting down on all fours.
I was at Green
Thumb nursery talking to an employee who showed me what they sold for this
function when a better idea showed up. Wooden tongue depressors. They look like
larger Popsicle sticks. They would function in the same way, but be bigger.
That’s the ticket. I looked online and found several medical supply stores that
would ship me a massive amount of sterile depressors. No, thank you. Kept
looking until I found exactly what I wanted, just in a rather large quantity.
In two short
days I was the proud owner of a box of 500 very inexpensive wooden, non-sterile
tongue depressors. I found a smallish box in my closet and scooped up a bunch
of depressors/plant markers and sent them to my sister. She has four square
foot gardens in the backyard of her house. I still have more than I could use
in my lifetime. Perhaps I will share them with someone else who likes to raise
their own veggies.
Now I have an
ample supply of wide, smooth wooden plant markers. I’ll use a permanent marking
pen and write whatever I like on them. I’m thinking the front should be plant
identification, and the back should be the date I put the plant in the ground.
This way, I won’t need to keep a notebook. All the data will be handy and in
plain view.
Until next time,
