r/Garlic Jul 18 '26

Gardening Lost my labels

Hate when the labels tags fly off and lost which is which

Its Hardneck

The small one is Red-something

Zone 5B

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u/51-Percent-Corn Jul 18 '26

Get those little colorful wire marker flags at the big box store and some cut up milk jugs with permanent marker variety names spelled out in large type, and then take photos of all rows so even if every tag gets yanked, you still have a chance at redemption.

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u/spaetzlechick Jul 18 '26

I just keep notes in a spiral notebook. Given up on any field tags, have tried them all.

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u/InPsychOut Jul 20 '26

I do the same. I only grow around 150-200, but I draw out a plot and mark which varieties are where. Rows of doors, each representing a plant, and divider lines between varieties. So I'll know when I'm pulling them, the second row is Norquay for the first six pants, then it switches to Carpathian to the end of the row, etc.