I keep trying to find ways to simplify making wood-burned plant labels. I finished the batch I was making with hot-stamp tips, but they took a long time and the spacing is messed up on a lot of them. Next attempt I’ll try a metal stencil plate and see how that goes.
Yesterday I got to work on my farm for a while alone. Solitude is such a rare thing these days!!! I had enough stamina to disassemble trellis #2, and even managed to pull up all the rebar. I’m feeling it today, though!
Only one trellis left, and then I can finally till.
My order from St Lawrence came this week. 5 berry bushes and 5 apple trees. They’re heeled-in in the backyard for now. The berry bushes are going in part of my field, so those need to wait until the tilling is done and the section is marked off. I’m thinking the apple trees can go where my failed strawberry patch was. (Yes, it was that big a patch.) I also have a bag of horse chestnut seeds that I’ll plant downhill from there, and a few bushes I want to take cuttings from and livestake all over the hillside.
(Livestaking is basically a super-simplified way of growing from cuttings. No rooting powder, no fancy treatment. You just take a live twig and poke it in the ground. It doesn’t work with everything, but some of the species I have growing are on the list of good livestaking candidates, and I really want a privacy screen. The fact that some of them are food plants is a bonus.)
I’m late getting seed trays planted. Hopefully that won’t set things back too far, I still want seeds from some of them.
Go to an arts and crafts store and see it they have a metal stamping kit.
Most of the arboretums and shrubbery commercial growers use them because they last indefinitely, and are easy to read even years later.
You just need a hammer and the raised lettering (like in an old newspaper linotype writer)/ perhaps estate sales/auction houses ?