Spoon Garden Markers

We've tried wooden  garden markers  (they rot)

We've tried  plastic jugs  cut into strips (they blow away)

After a few seasons the plastic gets crumbly too.

This year I have taken some forks  and   spoons, like these.

 

that I had left over from my cabinet spoon pulls project.

 

I hammered them flat as I could using a regular hammer.

This is real simple.  Of course my husband wanted to let me think

it would be difficult, using the right

 hammer/sledge/vice/channel lock pliers?

Won't he be surprised when he helps with the  gardening this year and I pull these

beauties out, then he realizes he isn't the one who did them.

I didn't have to do any hammering to the forks, I just

sand papered them to ruff them up like the   spoons,

and used a  permanent  marker, wrote the name of

the vegetable to be planted.

I used a clear spray  paint, just to make sure it doesn't

rub off.  I think they will last for a long time.

I really didn't have to "hammer" the  spoons to flatten them out,

I could have written on them when they were round. I just liked

the way this looked better.

Some people use a metal stamp to indent the letters,

I like my handwriting and maybe they will be passed

down to my children.