Making labels

10 years ago

I've been making my own labels for quite a while, but I think I've finally got the best design. Just copied the ones you have to pay the bucks for (that I would rather be spending on hostas!) that I have to replace as the holes have torn out. I can also scrub them off easily with a steel wool pad and re-write names on them.

Three pictures here, but can't post them all at once.They are made with aluminum flashing and heavy wire, I think might be 4 ga. I use a non-fade nursery marker, paint pen or grease pencil to write on them with but fancy labels could be made if you have a label maker.

You need flashing, heavy shears to cut it, a sharpie marker, a template to mark the holes--I used an old label--a drill with a bit that will make a hole big enough for the wire to slip through, and a pair of alligator-nose needle nose pliers. My DH drilled a dozen at once with his drill press but I just do one at a time.

You can get the flashing and wire at any home improvement store.

Sandy

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mosswitch
Original Author
10 years ago
Cut and bend the wire. I bent it over a piece of PVC pipe using an old wire as a pattern to be sure of the size, making it as tall or short as you want. Slip the label on it, bend the wire as pictured with a stout pair of pliers, and there you are!I made a couple dozen in about a half hour.

Sandy
mosswitch
Original Author
10 years ago
All done!

Sandy
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dg
10 years ago
Creative, attractive, practical and economical all at the same time!

Nice job,
Deb
hosta_freak
10 years ago
A lot of work,but if that's what floats your boat,go for it. I buy copper ones for 79 cents each at my local nursery, Phil
mosswitch
Original Author
10 years ago
Thanks, Deb.

Phil, they cost me less than 3ÃÂ¢ each to make. And nobody around here carries copper labels, or any labels at all, actually. I would have to order them, and I can get a lot of hostas for the $80 per hundred it would cost for the copper ones! They aren't much work at all to make.

Sandy
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10 years ago
Looks good to me, Sandy. It sounds like a rainy day project for my DH, so I will ask him to make me about FOUR HUNDRED, and see how fast he faints. hehehehehe....actually, about 100 should do fine. When I tell him 3 cents each cost, he'll love that.

Well, it is about a rainy day here....almost ready to come an afternoon thundershower. It figures....I watered everything!