Here in UK I use plastic labels which are painted black on both sides. You scratch through the paint to show the white plastic. I have been using them for well over ten years and they are still legible, and because they are black they do not get pulled out by birds and they do not look like rows of tomb stones in the garden. The plastic bends if you tread on it and I have accidentally composted some for three or more years and they were still OK. The scratching is too laborious for a commercial grower, but something for a long winter's night in front of the fire for me. Have a look at _wwwhttp://.labelsnthings.co.uk/acatalog/… (http://labelsnthings.co.uk/acatalog/…) Paul, Kent UK where we have had -6C frost yesterday and are expecting heavy snow tonight