HELP! Do you organize your plant info and/or plant tags?

Hello:

After a whole summer of uncontrolled binge spending on garden plants, (probably 'cause I work at a garden center, huh?) I am wondering what to do with all of these plastic tags that came with my plants. How you you all organize or store yours? Or, do you just throw them all away? I don't put them in the ground because I did that last year, and about half of them got destroyed, lost, moved, etc........

I figure there must be some logical way to do this, and I could probably come up with something that works, but I hate to re-invent the wheel, so I thought I check with everyone first.

Please share your thoughts/methods...... Thanks,

Kim
kbads

How do you 'destroy' plastic tags :-D

I keep all of whatever I have bought, and when I chop the plants down after the Autumn, I replant the plants (sometimes), and I have always the said sticker in the garten to keep me from wiping out the entire pre-harvest by digging them up 2 weeks later and declaring them as WEEDS ;-)


The Rangers Forever

Weedeaters can destroy plant tags. (personal experience ;o) I try to keep mine mostly buried next to the plant unless I've replaced it with a more permanent one.

I do keep many of mine, especially bulb packages and the labels that have pics, names and info. They are in a box downstairs in case I ever want to look them up. I have to say honestly, I have never went to get them but have dug through them a few times when I have run upon them. A couple of years ago, I also cut pics out of catalogues and kind of made collages for each garden just to remember what was there. Those were combined into a notebook-which is also in the basement. Last year I bought posterboard, made a scale drawing of all the beds and the house. The intention is to map out everything I am growing. Then I thought I might use tracing paper so I could have a layer for bulbs, one for perennial, one for hems, etc. Um, it's in the basement too...I do have all my daylily stuff in one notebook, with drawings of each garden. That one is on my desk and current. LOL As you can see, I am partial to no one plant!

I think my kids stepped on some of them, perhaps during the winter, cause the tops were broken off. You'd be amazed at the number of things my two boys can DESTROY without even trying!

I keep mine in one of those accordian files, alphabetized by botanical name. If I need to know the name of a plant, it's usually pretty easy to find it. I never had much luck keeping the tags with the plants, somehow they always get lost or broken. The only problem that I have with this system is the hosta's. I can no longer identify them all.

i junk every one of the. got enough clutter in my garage.