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These DIY Plant Labels Resist Fading And Save BIG Money!



In today’s 2 minute garden tip, I share how to make DIY plant labels that resist fading and save big money! Cheap plastic plant labels fade in the sun quickly. Having your labels resist fading is important. This video will show you how to make plant labels that don’t fade in sun so you have the best plant labels for your garden!

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If you have questions about making your own fade resistant plant labels out of paint paddles, need help growing a vegetable garden or growing fruit trees, want tips for gardening for beginners, want to know about the things I grow in my garden, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and “garden hacks” like this, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and “how to” garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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46 Comments

  3. Pixie Girl

    My latest attempt is cheap wooden shims, marker and then protect with clear spray paint. Fingers crossed

  5. Christopher Smith

    When using a vinyl plant tag (or cut up cheap blinds) with a sharpie I stick the writing into the soil. The soil protects it from the light and the marker doesn't degrade in the soil.

    I also write what is planted in the beds on my garden map, but for the most part I have the characteristics of every plant memorized. I only really need the tags for seeded trays and I lay them flat name side down on top of the tray.

  7. Valorie Griego

    Nice!👍There is a guy I watch who lives in the UK. He does budget garden and uses the paint stirring sticks. He wraps his in a tape…bright yellow…maybe duct tape. I think he just adds another layer of tape to reuse the stick.
    Great idea.🙂

  10. Josh Adair

    Good idea. I always used large popsicle stick like pieces but the issue with them as well as the paint paddles your using is the water the water from rain and watering garden as well as the soil moisture eat them up quickly , but it is a great affordable idea I’ve just found that they rot quickly

  12. Ronald Lopez

    But how are you marking them? Time to bust out the woodburning kit? I still have a pack of the metal labels from your storefront that I am going to use for perennials.

  13. Carol Dragon

    I found that even sharpie tends to bleed when the sticks are wet. Next year I plant use a wood burner tip to write on them to see how that works.

  16. racebiketuner

    I checked your link and was surprised to find these are very affordable. For anyone interested in a smaller size, Home Depot has a very good price on 1/2 x 6 when you buy 900 – a little over 3 cents each. "Writing" with a soldering iron instead of ink solves the problem with fading in the sun.

  17. Bill Ward

    I tried using popsicle sticks last year, but they composted in a few months. I don't think that paint sticks will last much longer. But maybe if you dip it in polyurethane first?

  19. Uschiaala

    I'm in Australia and I was disappointed to find that the "extreme" sharpies fade in time – I had such high hopes for them. I have switched to plastic plant markers with a garden pencil. Haven't looked back. Sun proof, water proof, and you can use an eraser to remove the writing and reuse the tag over and over.

  22. Pamela Pruett

    I asked friends to save me their discarded window blinds and I cut them down and use a paint marker to put the name on and then I decorated with different colors. Basically free except for the cost of the paint markers which I get at Dollar Tree

  25. ROBYN DUDLEY

    I have used these before. The wood does start breaking down in the soil. They don’t fade but you might get a second season out of them.

  27. Chris

    for veggie gardeners, the plant labels have most of their use in cell tray, so we can make good planting out decisions.
    paint paddles not much suitable unless they fit in the label slot or otherwise readily usable in cell tray.
    never had a propblem with the sturdier/thicker plastic plant labels reacting with sharpie. maybe those flimsy plant labels arent that good.

  28. Oscar Tavera

    I started writing in pencil on popsicle sticks after learning about it on Reddit homesteading group

  34. DrTracy

    I’ve. Been using bright colored duct tape with paint pens. I fold a piece over the trellis or a stake. It works quite well.

  39. Laser Fox

    I use wood popsicle sticks with a permanent sharpie and they still fade. The marker doesn't last, it gets absorbed into the wood. I have a laser engraver and I'm going to have to engraver my plant labels so its etched in.

  40. Jay Johnson

    I've started putting furnace tape on the wooden labels, and writing on them with a ballpoint pen. The scratches don't fade.

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