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Gardening

hedgehog

(36,286 posts) Mon Jul 14, 2014, 08:54 AM Jul 2014

A. When you label all your rose bushes, go away for six weeks, and there are several big rainstorms.

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Q. When is a permanent marker not a permanent marker? (Original Post) hedgehog Jul 2014 OP

You might be surprised at how quickly the sun kentauros Jul 2014 #1

Some of the garden stores offer soft thin copper plate markers Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2014 #2

Tongue depressors and a soft lead pencil works for me. lpbk2713 Jul 2014 #3

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1. You might be surprised at how quickly the sun

Mon Jul 14, 2014, 09:02 AM

Jul 2014

fades a black marker, too. Red fades faster, though.

Maybe get one of those oldstyle label-makers that pressed the letters into a strip of plastic?

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2. Some of the garden stores offer soft thin copper plate markers

Mon Jul 14, 2014, 09:09 AM

Jul 2014

So that you essentially 'engrave' your labels into the copper on the marker.

(Edit: You have to use a hard stylus to press in, obviously.)

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3. Tongue depressors and a soft lead pencil works for me.

Mon Jul 14, 2014, 09:35 AM

Jul 2014

I've tried scratching on the inner side of Coke cans but that's hard to see.

The Central Florida sun and rain will make quick work of Sharpie ink.