Most of the time when starting seeds for the garden I will label the pots in which I plant teeny tiny seeds. Then some of the time I will not. At some point and time, after the seedlings begin to show their pretty little heads above the dirt line, I combine them all in the same trays and eventually forget what's what. The seed cups get jostled all in there together and until they begin their first set of real leaves I can't tell who is who, especially when I have begun more than one type of tomatoes. I really try hard not to let this happen. When I use my newspaper pots I simply write the names on the outside and all is well. But this time I didn't write the names on the outside of about a dozen Roma tomatoes and a dozen marigolds. So I came up with a pretty little solution to my problem and thought I would share it will you also, just in case you can use it too. And in case you use a different type of seed starting pots like the black plastic ones that you can't write on.
My idea is little flags. I made a template, printed and cut them out. Then, using a glue stick, glued the flag around a tooth pick and taa daa... I.D. flags for my lil cuties!
Again, you totally have my permission to right click and save these as a picture or right click and print. They can also be used as cupcake flags or you could even pull the Shoney's card at a picnic labelling which hamburger is well done and rare. Easy Peasy! Have fun!
Fill in the blank flags.
Tomato Flags
Little Herb Ones!
By the way, if this print and click thing isn't working for you please shoot me a comment or email and I will be delighted to send it to you by email.
XO Laurie
