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Char said:

Natalie, they don't at mine either. If you step on the metal marker it just bends over often times taking out the fan your foot would have missed in the first place!

Bluegrassmom mentioned embossing on aluminum tape...here's a link to an ATP article that explains a way of making them.
http://garden.org/ideas/view/X...



I'd love to see some of these, do you have images Elaine? I've been looking at several different ways to mark my seedlings now that the price of the labels I was using has gone up. I use several hundred labels to mark the crosses until a seedling is selected and gets an individual label, anything to keep cost down helps

For what it's worth, many people find the embossed aluminum markers difficult to read - no matter what kind they are. I can think of at least one well-known hybridizer (two, now that I think about it) who use these, and, as I said, people find them difficult. Particularly when they're close to the ground and partially obscured by foliage.