I love to recycle and reuse but one of my favourite recycling fads drives my husband mad. I do admit to be a bit haphazard and chaotic at times, but I don’t apologise for it.
However, I have tried very hard to see what is wrong with cutting up empty white plastic pots to create plant labels.
Actually the problem is more, what happens to them later on, and even I can see that small pieces of plastic in the compost heap and around the garden does look a bit unsightly and I have to admit that any labels that have spent a season in the greenhouse do fade and often start to disintegrate.
NOT that I am admitting I am wrong, of course not! But I am prepared to compromise and to that end I have decided that this year I am going to use Lollipop sticks.
I love the idea of asking everyone to keep them for me, but I think that will become disgustingly sticky and I don’t know anyone that eats enough lollipops to keep me in plant labels.
Since they are now available from companies such as Burgon & Ball (http://www.burgonandball.com/shop/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=113) in useful packs of fifty, I am going to make another resolution to use these instead.
Labelled as ‘seedling labels’, you can write on them with a pencil and they can be reused, recycled, composted or even used as kindling. What’s more I may even experiment and make some lollipops as well.
I am not going to stop my practice of writing on my flowerpots in permanent pen.
I use and reuse many plastic pots and I find that labelling the pot itself as well as using a plant label is extremely useful too. But I can see the sense in using something natural to label my plants and seedlings.
The problem now is what to do with all the old labels???
All suggestions gratefully received.
