Kudos!I, too, am always on the lookout for cheape tags. Let us know if the ink washes off of the tyvek.

It won't if you use a "sharpie" or one of those laundry pens-

It's just as easy and no cost to cut strips from pop cans and write with a ball point pen on a semi-hard surface.

Great ideas! :) You can probably punch a hole using a hole punch, tooÂinstead of stapling. Craft stores sell smaller-diameter hole punches.

I took a cheap shower curtain liner from the dollar store and cut out strips like the wrap-around tags you can wrap around a plant trunk, branch, etc. I cut a small notch in one end so I can tie it.

I have been using a paint pen. It doesn't fade in the sun and doesn't run.

Good ideas!!!!

when I was in art school, shim stock (thin alunimum strips to make molds), were to kill for. We used old alunimum cans cut into strips. two years later later someone was working in a print shop and started bringing in the alunimum sheets they used for dies. Can't remember what they were called or if they are still being used. nice 10x14 sheets. you might check around and see if they are still in use, I think they just through them away.

Krstofer, I note you are making the labels for your cross-pollenation experiments. I used to have the same problem remembering what I had done to what, and writing labels is fine when there are only a few but a drag when you have to do a lot. I use colour coded embroidery threads (the fast dye sort so they dont loose colour). Each plant has a colour (the hanks are labelled!) but then as I pollenate all I have to do is tie a piece of the corresponding thread to the flower. If it falls, no great loss, if seed sets the thread is there til the fruit falls and I know what the pollenator was by the colour of the thread. Equally where I have plants close that have similar fruits I can put two threads on the flower - one for the flower and the other for the pollenator. That said, I still have a lot of fruit forming that has been open pollenated and I have no idea who the 'father' is!!