Returning member but hello all!

[Kitchen Gardener]

Hello everyone

I was (and still am) a member for ages but due to many things the gardening took a backseat for a while.

Anyway - I am back and and am excited that I have now been given a half plot allotment. I want to keep this as one main plot but want to prevent walking on the soil all the time, I am sure I saw somewhere (the magazine perhaps??) a sort of roll up temporary path which I thought would be good. Does anyone know about these. Also I want a plant label printer (think Dymo do one) but can't find one in the shops, I really don't want to pay �40.00 plus but am fed up of plant labels becoming unreadable after a shower.

[Scarlet]

Hello Kitchen Gardener and welcome back. I use labels and a pencil, it doesn't wash off or fade.

[veggiechicken]

Hello KG and welcome back. Don't think we met first time round!!
Can you use a plank as a path? Improves your balance no end
I've seen those labelling jobbies in places like L!dl but they're quite expensive - but who am I to say how you spend your money

[Scarlet]

I'm off to google - I've never seen one!

[arpoet]

Hi and welcome back. You must come from the posh bit of Yorkshire if you want to waste..... er, spend good money on a label machine. I use a marker on reusable plastic labels and wash em off with bleach when I want new ones.

[Dotty Sarah]

Welcome back Last year I wrote on all labels with a sharpie pen and still haven't managed to scrub them clean now, just writing on the backs and saving up some more plastic tubs to cut up!

[Sheneval]

Hi KC - welcome back - hope you enjoy the posts on here - I do

[marchogaeth]

I use a marker on reusable plastic labels and wash em off with bleach when I want new ones.

Nail polish remover works for me. (I don't wear nail polish. It's main use in our house before cleaning labels was to help remove ticks.)

Croeso n'�l, KG, I have labels that were written on with a permenant marker pen last year, were out all season and are going back out now with just a wash, still perfectly clear. Might be worth investigating marker pens before forking out for a dynamo if it is the names staying on that is your concern rather than actually wanting a label maker.

[Kitchen Gardener]

Sorry to offend, I don't have money to throw away but do need to remember what I have planted and last year in my many tubs and containers I found all my labels had washed clean in the rain. Now that I have been lucky enough to get an allotment,I dreaded my memory failing me and labels washing clean but I will try a sharpie pen (I do have one somewhere).
In my first trip to the plot I met a very nice neighbour who has had his plot for 40 years and he has offered to get me started and since I don't have a shed etc. he has given me my own space in his shed ... what a love, another guy came bearing gifts of cauliflowers and cabbages, think I am goinf to be very happy on my plot.

[Florence Fennel]

Hello and a very warm welcome back to the Vine