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Post by daylilydude on Jan 22, 2013 15:30:26 GMT -5
Here are a few nifty ideas bowwored from facebook... Attachments:
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Post by txdirtdog on Jan 23, 2013 8:12:53 GMT -5
Very cool!
And here I've just been punching holes in the bottoms and burying them in the rows to act as water reservoirs.
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Post by daylilydude on Apr 12, 2013 18:22:13 GMT -5
Here is another great idea...
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 12, 2013 19:15:05 GMT -5
Except that Sharpie + sunlight = mystery plants in 2-3 months. Been there, done that!
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Post by gixxerific on Apr 13, 2013 10:05:10 GMT -5
I cut them up for labels too. Especially for starters that go under a dome. The good ones I buy are too big to fit under the dome so they have to be cut which sucks. Too expensive to be buying them and bringing them home and cutting them all up.
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Post by izzy on Apr 14, 2013 15:52:24 GMT -5
Except that Sharpie + sunlight = mystery plants in 2-3 months. Been there, done that! Me too! I found that #2 lead pencil works - sunlight doesn't affect it. Labels over 2 years old were still legible. If you have trouble holding onto skinny pencils - like I do - use those fat "my first pencil" and your labels will have a dark heavy print that can be read without bending over to squint at it. Used on old cut up blinds, you can make labels as big as you want.
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Post by gixxerific on Apr 14, 2013 16:16:12 GMT -5
use paint markers
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 14, 2013 16:59:01 GMT -5
Paint markers would be good for milk jugs, but paint markers are expensive. I don't know if pencil would stand out enough on a translucent material like milk jugs. (Not a worry if your milk comes in the opaque white jugs.) I am using pencil on my white plastic labels this year...pencil is nice because it can be erased and the label reused until the plastic deteriorates. I had not thought of using the first pencils, but that is a good idea - I am having to bend over to read the ones I've written with a regular #2 pencil. Next time I replace blinds I will definitely save the old ones for labels.
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Post by txdirtdog on Apr 14, 2013 21:24:14 GMT -5
Ummm, another problem I've found with milk jugs just recently is they are not U.V. resistant. Last fall I started punching holes in the bottoms of them and burying them up to the shoulders near plants to act as water reservours (sp?). I had some that I just had sitting in the garden unburied for future use before I decided to go with the PVC lines instead. The other day I dropped something on one, and it shattered. It didn't dent, or anything like that. It shattered. Ongoing sunlight exposure will make them brittle. The white ones may last longer. These are the natural plastic without colorant.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2013 8:41:45 GMT -5
A lot of typically single use plastic food containers have been made more biodegradable in response to pressure from environmentalists, and the most common form is photodegradation, or breakdown in sunlight. The problem with this, of course, is that once buried in a landfill they will not be EXPOSED to sunlight. But anyway... Check the recycling code inside the little triangle on any container you're looking to reuse. Generally, the higher the number, the more UV resistant it will be. Next time I replace blinds I will definitely save the old ones for labels. If you have a Home Depot or Lowes nearby, or anyplace that sells blinds, ask if you can get some of the scraps from blinds they have cut to size. They'll give you a funny look, but it's going in the trash anyway; there's no reason they shouldn't give it to you. MB
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