Seedling Pot.

[Durgan]

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?AMEZQ 6 February 2013 Seedling Pot
After utilizing various starting seedling pots over the years it was decided to make a pot to meet my needs. Concerns are: high germination, little disturbance of roots when transplanting,convenient size, convenience of producing, and cost.
Plastic cups were purchased from Walmart, along with some cotton pads.Drainage holes were burned on the periphery of the cups. The cotton swab was places in the bottom of the cup (Pot) to prevent spillage of the soil and to retain some bottom moisture.The pots filled with home soil.The seeded pots then placed in a container so bottom watering can be carried out, and the pots covered to maintain high moisture until germination.When transplanting or moving up to a larger pot the container side is cut to reduce any root disturbance Few seeds need light for germination. They need appropriate warmth and moisture.Immediately after germination light is required and SUNLIGHT is ideal.

 

[canesisters]

that isn't what I thought this post was about....

 

[Smiles Jr.]

What are you using for your identification stakes? I have tried many different ideas with minimal success for long lasting use. I had a bunch of plastic tongue depressors that I thought were the cat's meow but I quickly found out that the UV rays ruined them in a mater of three months. Then I used wooden tongue depressors but they soak up moisture and are impossible to read after a while.

I have had the best results using white plastic picnic knives. They last an entire season and they are very easy to write on with a Sharpie felt tipped pen. And they are very inexpensive at a dollar store.

I like to use the stakes out in the garden after I start the plants in little cups and I like to have large stakes outdoors so I can see them when the plant growth looks like a jungle. The picnic knives are too small for me. And the Sharpie felt tipped pen markings disappear in the UV rays also.

Any other inexpensive ideas?

 

[Durgan]

What are you using for your identification stakes? I have tried many different ideas with minimal success for long lasting use. I had a bunch of plastic tongue depressors that I thought were the cat's meow but I quickly found out that the UV rays ruined them in a mater of three months. Then I used wooden tongue depressors but they soak up moisture and are impossible to read after a while.

I have had the best results using white plastic picnic knives. They last an entire season and they are very easy to write on with a Sharpie felt tipped pen. And they are very inexpensive at a dollar store.

I like to use the stakes out in the garden after I start the plants in little cups and I like to have large stakes outdoors so I can see them when the plant growth looks like a jungle. The picnic knives are too small for me. And the Sharpie felt tipped pen markings disappear in the UV rays also.
Any other inexpensive ideas?

Truly markers can be a problem. I tried them all much like you mentioned. Now this is what I have. There is quite a variety.

https://www.dpind.com/ProductCart/pc/6-X-5-8-White-Plastic-1000-Pack-17p109.htm

I use 6 inch or 5 inch and order a box of 1000. This year I have yellow, which appear to be just fine. For marking I use the standard marker pen which stands up well for at least one year. The sharpie permanent marker does fade with time but seems to be the best available.

 

[digitS']

I see a "garden marker" advertised with the plastic markers . . . you know, it would really help for a lexicographer to get that term and those products clearly defined - marker/marker.

Perhaps it identifies the irony that the ink from the commonly available markers will fade to nothing after a couple months in the open garden. Nothing like having several varieties together, each with its own "sticker", and not be able to read any ID!

Indoors, it takes care to "label" containers of potting soil when there are multiple varieties of seed going into them. Once outdoors, having used a pen that is charged with the right ink has made my life a little easier. Sometimes, I still lose the "tag" out there, anyway.

Steve

 

[canesisters]

I saw where someone once said to collect the small yard signs after an ellection and cut them into 3"wide by 2'tall strips - then use a marker in whatever solid colored space to label. I've never tired it (first garden this spring) but it seems like a good 'free' idea.

 

[thistlebloom]

Last year I marked the rows with 2' construction stakes. I wrote on them with Magic marker, and the names are still legible, but faint.
I plan on sanding them lightly to get the writing off and reusing them. I haven't tried sanding the names off yet, but it seems like it will work. They aren't free ( unless you raid a construction site by moonlight in your ninja gardener outfit ) but if I can use them for lots of years it will be worth it. I really liked being able to see and read the stakes. It's so tiresome to poke around a growing plant to try to find a little tag.

 

[baymule]

I had a package of wood shims I bought at Lowes and wrote on them with magic marker. They are still readable, if you can find them under all that lush growth. :/

 

[Smiles Jr.]

I saw where someone once said to collect the small yard signs after an ellection and cut them into 3"wide by 2'tall strips - then use a marker in whatever solid colored space to label. I've never tired it (first garden this spring) but it seems like a good 'free' idea.

Those political signs are good for lots of things around the farm.

1. One unusual use is to make Small Hive Beetle traps for inside the honey bee hives. The little beetle crawls into the little tunnels to get to the poison bait you put in there. Its all over for them and the bees cannot get to the bait.

2. Yard sale and honey for sale signs.

3. Temporary cold weather panels for the rabbit hutches.

4. Doll houses for grand daughters.

5. Ramps and tunnels for little cars for grandsons.

6. Floor tile for the dirt floor in my barn workshop.

7. The heavy wire sign frame has bazilions of uses around here.

 

[897tgigvib]

See? There is a good use for politics after all! The old signs can be used for much better purposes like marking beans or keeping the wind off rabbits!