Daily Delight: Gardening Stakes

by Lili Zarghami May 26, 2011 10 Comments

I remember gardening with my mom as a kid and marking the seedlings with the plastic stakes that came with the plants or simply sticking the packages in the dirt so we remembered what we planted.

silver spoon garden stakes

Plastic stakes make me nostalgic, but they pale in comparison to these striking handcrafted ones by Hammermann. The garden markers are made by hammering antique silver spoons and are hand stamped with the names of your favorite homegrown greens.

10 Responses

Anna_hgtv says:

May 27, 2011 at 7:17 PM

Someday I will make a set of these! And if not with anitque spoons, then with pottery when I get back to working with clay.

carole says:

May 28, 2011 at 6:14 PM

It was so much fun to see my "good" dinnerware in your picture! I still love my dishes and they look so pretty in your picture! Thank you

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May 31, 2011 at 10:35 PM

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alpha86 says:

June 30, 2011 at 8:18 PM

Where can I find the name stamps for the spoons??

Carolyn W.C. says:

June 30, 2011 at 9:15 PM

I purchased beautiful silverplated large spoons a few years ago with intentions of using them as markers. The handles are gorgeous, but sadly they will not show when buried in the dirt. Anybody have ideas how I could show both the handle and the bowl with the plant id?

Anna@HGTV says:

June 30, 2011 at 11:05 PM

My thought would be to turn the beautiful ones you have into napkin rings instead, and finding ones with boring handles for gardening stakes.

pkay says:

July 1, 2011 at 12:23 PM

bend the spoon so that it forms a hook over the side of the pot – that way the beautiful handles will show also!

madame says:

July 1, 2011 at 8:57 PM

put the spoon end in the pot with the handle sticking out with a tag or a ribbon with the name written on it tied to the handle. bending the spoon and a dangling ribbon or tag will work too!

RoseMary says:

July 2, 2011 at 5:49 PM

I also would like to know where to find the name stamps for the spoons

Carl says:

July 3, 2011 at 10:30 AM

You can buy an alphabet set of letters from some home improvement type stores or a hobby store – just need a hammer and something to pound on after flattening the spoons. Then you can customize your plant labels any way you want rather than having to buy a lot of different name stamps that you might only use once