I was so organised this year. I prepared the seedbed properly and labelled each row. As you can see I made a frame so that I could protect the seedlings with fleece on cold nights. The problem? I got a bit carried away with multi-coloured supposedly indellible pens, and the white stick labels you see are now all unreadable.
The red cabbage I can make out - the rest....
Whoops! You'll just have to wait and see now! At least you've already planted them so you can't plant them in the wrong places.
ReplyDeleteMy, the raised beds look beautiful! Great photo.
ReplyDeleteNot to worry about the labels..you'll recognize them, I am sure...)))
The frame is very nice indeed.
You have such tidy beds! I keep thinking I'll splurge someday and purchase some pretty stakes/labels..but I never do.
ReplyDeleteOh lol...I learnt a long time ago that the only thing to mark up your plant labels with is the good old pencil. It lasts all summer and can then be rubbed away for re-using your labels another year.
ReplyDeleteOh well it will be fun to know what grows where....I take it this means you didn't draw up a planting chart??
It is a wonderful looking structure and the plants are healthy and the beds tidy...hhhmmmmm....maybe I should go weed the allotment!!
Free range planting, Mal! You'll have to subdue your scientific tendencies, but the end results will taste as good.
ReplyDeleteI emailed somewhere in the maw of UK government about the allotments 'consultation' and got an email saying that what they are doing is clarifying councils' responsibilities because they aren't clearly defined at the moment, not intending to take them away. We'll see.
Gosh those beds look fantastic Mal - great job on them... now your labeling problems have given me a little giggle - I have got something growing in my yard, an absolute profusion of it in fact - but I didn't label it and I have no idea what it is... none at all...
ReplyDeleteGood luck with yours!
Martyn had this problem with one pens he bought - labelled his seed tray, watering the plants and writing disappeared.
ReplyDeleteYour beds are beautiful. Unfortunately, I learned the Sharpie labeling lesson on 100 daylilies. Waiting for summer to identify them now.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful surprise it will be, to see which is what ;-) Love the raised beds. I tried to be clever and use (washed) used lolly sticks as markers. They got mouldy and therefore illegible. Won't be doing that again.
ReplyDeletei use the GroVeg program and save a map of my garden. last year i labeled i used a China marker-grease pencil. they don't fade. but my plants grew over my label stakes so they didn't help much after all.
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