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'ôl, 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