I was thinking of trying to make plant tags like this with just the plant name and qr codes. I'm already in the process of making labels for seed packets for the seed swap using the qr codes, data from my plant list and swap list, and mailmerges. It seems to be working well and I thought I could use the same process for plant tags.

After a seed swap I end up wintersowing a lot of seed. My old system was cutting up yogurt containers into strips and writing the plant and growing info on them with a uv resistant garden marker. They would hold up for a few years, but the writing sometimes rubbed off and the plant tags got brittle and crumbled. Plus it takes a lot of time to neatly write all the info on the tag that I wanted. Some seeds wouldn't even germinate and that effort would be wasted.

I tried an old Brother p-touch labeler I had with waterproof label tape that I affixed to the plastic strips, but the tape is expensive and limited in what you could put on it. The plastic strips still broke over time anyways and I worried about the labels falling off. Getting the nice metal plant tags to put the waterproof tape on is longer lasting, but very expensive and not really feasible for seed starting use.

So I started looking for something different and found the site linked below. They used a product called TerraSlate. It comes in 8.5x11" sheets and looks like a form of thin totally waterproof plastic that you can print on with any laser printer. You can arrange the labels/markers however you want, print them out, cut into strips, and it seems stiff enough to use as a plant marker. It looks like the same stuff they make those temporary license plates out of. Being plastic, they likely would have similar issues of getting brittle in the sun over a number of years, but by that point hopefully I would have mapped out the more permanent plants in another way.

This would definitely speed up the seed starting and planting out process. With a qr code on the tag I might actually get more organized and make better use of the "plant events" feature on the site too.

So anyone try a product like this yet? It's $35 for 25 sheets of the 8mil thickness, but I think you could easily get 30+ tags to a sheet, which would make them cost just a few pennies each.

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