Labelling seeds Was: sowing Moraea seeds

Bulborum Botanicum bulborum@gmail.com
Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:50:34 PST
I know only a complicated solution
this works here against voles
I use 7 mm galvanized wire mesh
and make little baskets for my very rare bulbs

Roland



2011/11/26 AW <awilson@avonia.com>:
> That's fine but what do you do when rats dig up the bulbs and spread them
> among adjacent pots in the process? Labels may survive but the identities
> have been mixed.
>
> Andrew
> San Diego
>
>
> From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]
> On Behalf Of Jane McGary
>
> Roland has plant show attendees moving his labels, and Randy has banned
> small children. In addition to these nuisances, I had a flock of crows
> invade a raised bed once, and they plucked out and tossed the labels all
> about. Took me years to get the collection sorted.
> After that I adopted Roland's "buried backup label" system, using the seed
> pot labels for that purpose.
>
> Jane McGary
> Portland, Oregon, Usa
>
>
> At 10:35 AM 11/26/2011, you wrote:
>>I like it.
>>
>>I have banned small children from the collection.  I once got a
>>collection of named Pacific coast hybrid irises totally scrambled by a pair
> of urchins.
>>
>>Randy
>
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