Water Gardening: Texas waterlilies etc arrived, 1 by darlindeb

darlindeb wrote:
The cheap blind slats seem to have a little bit of a porous texture which may be the reason they hold the ink. I know that it will work up to 3 years underwater for me (It might last longer), but I can vouch for 3 years. I like having the label run under the plant because it doesn't come lose and wind up on the bottom of the pond where I might step on something and puncture the liner. My fear with metal labels is that I'll step on them put a hole in the liner.

Here is a photo of a tag that was under water for probably 3 years. Now I do have to scrape the algae stuff off sometimes to read something.

In my regular above ground vegetable garden I have used commercially made white plastic labels and used a Sharpie to write on them and the ink has just disappeared.