Tagged Graden Bed

My garden is mostly perennials, which once they're established it's easy to identify them. When I plant a new area, I do use tags until it established. We have a lot of fast food restaurants in our area, and each one has a distinctive straw, different by color, size, pattern, etc. For tags, I put a 10" babmboo skewer into the ground (the kind you use for kabobs), then slip a half of a straw over it. I keep a list on my refrigerator of what is where. Once the plants are eaily identifyable, I gather the skewers and straws to use again the following year. By not labeling them, it's easy to reuse them.

I'm not much into gardening but I do planted chinese cabbages, although I wrote a separate sheet where I placed the date I planted the seedlings and watch it grow, having posted this, I am thinking of labeling or tagging them, sounds a great idea you have grandpa bob ! You have a good discretion ! .. um just a question do you use organic fertilizers as well ?

You are just too organized, you make me feel guilty. I do not make tags. I will not even get everything planted for awhile. I can recognize some of the stuff, and otherwise, it just does not matter.

We bought the home we own now just over 3 years ago and have lot of plants we didn't want to be where they were so we tagged them so that once the season was over we could dig them up and move them. We planned to do after seeing all the flowers that shot up the spring after we bought the place. Well things got busy and it didn't get done. Hopefully we get the time to do it this year as we are planning what we want our yard to look like. It's a whole lot of work and I keep finding things to do that I didn't know I needed to do so we play catch-up a lot. This year we are starting two 4 foot square vegetable gardens and a few other projects so I don't know if I will get those flowers moved or not. At least they are beautiful. It would suck if they were butt ugly plants.

I dont put a large garden out, dont have the room. I just plant tomatoes and green peppers. I just use the tags that come with the plants so I no what kind of tomatoes I plant.I stick them in the ground next to each tomato plant so Iknow which plant has the best tomatoes.

Good idea! I try to put tags but they get lost somehow. In my country we are heading for winter. We have mild winter so I´ll give it a try at potatoes. How many squere feet is your veggie bed?

No, I'm not quite that methodical, Grandpa Bob. I tend to just plant them and wait for them to come up. lol. You're doing a great job on your garden, my friend. Brightest Blessings.

Ya know, I never had to tag my gardens before but this spring I'm doing it with all the different perennials I'm getting from several freecyclers in the past month so I can remember what they are. lol

I am proud of you for putting name tags in your garden. Just one question? How do you know what all of them are since you had some starting out from seedling in your house and you didn't tag them and didn't know what they were when they started coming up? hahaha

I am not growing anything this year, but in past years I did not take the time to make tags for the things in my garden. I just remembered where things were and that was that. I never went all out like you do though.

That's a great idea and good way to re-use what you'd normally throw away. I will be making a garden map instead of markers and keep it on the back porch so I know what's there. The weather better hurry and warm up, my beans and peas are impatient to get into the ground!

You're very organised indeed, GB. Great idea, using the plastic containers to make tags!

Hi GRANDPA BOB, That is a good idea but I have never done things like that before as my garden is not big enough to do all that. Tamara

Great idea. I didn't plant much, I don't have the space for it. I did plant a few pepper plants and tomato plants. My pepper plants are doing fine, I did tag them because I have a least 4 different kinds, I just used the little name and instruction tags that come with them, I stuck them down in the ground. I hope that will help until they start producing pepper. Then I can identify them.