Help Test Plant Label Stock

[bossgard]

Help me test some new Plant Label Stock.

I have a sample sheet of new label stock on which I have run nine 2”x4” text and photo labels. I have the same set of labels duplicated on a control Avery stock which will act as side by side comparison.

They will be mounted on matching surface material(s) as indicated:

White Plastic Pot-Stic
6” Standard Green Plastic Nursery Pot
Painted Metal
Plain Galvanized Metal
Clear Glass Jar (Kerr Mason Canning Jar, in this case)
Professional Heavy Metal Specimen Type Holder/Marker, with Bezel and UV Protection

I would like to do a finished hard wood surface, but unless I put my antique round dining table out in the weather, I can’t find anything.(I’m not that nuts!).

What other surfaces would you wish to mount Plant Labels on? I have four more to go!
Then they go out in our weather.

- Toby

[ideasguy]

I'd recommend putting the remaining labels to the full test by sticking them to pots with plants in them.
That way, they go through the rigours of watering and normal handling.

I'd be particularly interested in the results of:
White Plastic Pot-Stic
6” Standard Green Plastic Nursery Pot
Painted Metal
Professional Heavy Metal Specimen Type Holder/Marker, with Bezel and UV Protection

[bossgard]

George:

I like your idea of placing the trial label stock on actual use pots with plants in them. I will be starting my Tuberous Begonias soon, after the danger of frost is over. Putting labels on them would certainly put the 'pedal to the metal'. Watering, fertilizing, sun-shine, rain (no snow I hope), even the pots rubbing against each other will make good tests.

 What are the your pots made of - ceramic, terra cotta, fiberglass, resin, wood? Any more suggestions, you guys?


- Toby

[ideasguy]

I use plastic trays and pots for young plants.
Japanese maples - some in Plastic pots, some in terra-cotta.

Lets hear what the other members use.

[Kathy & Laurie]

The majority of the pots that Kathy uses are plastic.

She has a few terra cotta pots but they are the very large sizes.

Laurie.