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Midweek Growers Conversation - Win Hive!
It's hump day again - well, in Australia, we are over it, and this silly camel forgot it was Wednesday! THat's okay, it's not too late to join in to win!Thanks to everyone who joined in last week!
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Last week @owasco and @davedickeyyall recieved a tip, and everyone recieved an upvote!
Check out @owasco's lovely lettuce...
Stuck for something to talk about?
You can talk about or share ANYTHING - there's no theme as such. And we appreciate those who ask questions to get the ball rolling!
However if you're stuck, try this week's midweek theme is dirty fingernails.
Do you wear gloves or do you like your hands in the soil?
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When I first took up gardening, I was quite appalled by the insects and worms in the soil. But one adapts! In any case, I don’t work as effectively with gloves, and aren’t there health benefits to getting your hands dirty?
I'm not so squeamish with worms now. I don't mind them so much as I know they're good for the soil, I just flick some soil over them so I don't see them. In most cases they squiggle back down themselves pretty quick anyway.
ha for you there sure is. How do you do it?
Thank you for the tip!!! How fun is that?!
I once had a gardening friend who worked as a server in a hoity toity restaurant. He would soak his fingertips in bleach after every day in the garden that was followed by his shift serving food to hoity toity customers.
wow, congrats @owasco and @davedickeyyall! 👏😍
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STOPI read once that guy health started at the fingertips, which touch the soil and I loved that idea ... In a very scientific way, we SHOULD be connected to the earth!
I adore worms. I love finding big fat ones and having a little chat with them in the palm of my hand. Incredible creatures.
Omg BLEACH!!! that's crazy and gross.
Everytime I think gloves are a good idea I can't do anything properly so I think bugger it, who needs nails anyway, and use my bare hands. Nothing a nailbrush can't handle. There's something rally tactile about it as well.
Urghhh!! I still can't bring myself to touch them, or any animals. I find it really odd to touch a living object that's not a human behaviour, that's why I'm not keen on pets.
I do say good morning to my plants every morning 😄
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I like using the big fat ones for fish bait.
I only wear gloves when working with my raspberry or others plants with thorns. Although that often doesn't really help that much either.
For other garden chores I don't wear them.
Agreed! But his fingernails were things of wonder whenever he put down a plate before a customer. He was very well tended himself.
I only use gloves when I have to shovel a lot, use a pick ax, or move around wood and that type of thing.
I got raspberries without thorns.
Well I wouldn't be havin' an auld chat with them like Ms. River, but I no longer feel the urge to chop them in half like I used to:)
That's murder:)
When I said I adapted, I didn't mean going as far as to touch the little feckers. No, I lift them to safety with a trowel, and not a word passes between us.
I had to laugh. Here's me all like well 'ard not using gloves and yesterday got bit by something...
Thank goodness for antisan.
Crikey, that looks sore! I used to be bitten by everything and his mother, but then I discovered homeopathy!
Whatever works for you! The bumps are still there this morning but they have faded and aren't so sore. Jamie went straight to 'i hope it wasn't a redback' which was conceivable I suppose but ... Off to google 'what happens if you get bitten by a redback'
Lol! Here they suck little sand prawns from the low tide sand for bait. The worms are left alone.
One has to grow up eventually...
Do you guys have any dangerous spiders?
Not that I know of. Do you?
Never fished in the ocean as much time as I spent in it. May need to remember this if I ever do.
I look forward to it!:)
I think its late for me to make a post. I use gloves only when mixing manure not while planting the saplings. Here I use pointed knives to dig the mud and so on. Probably Iam comfortable and fast with it.
I like gardening and planting vegetables and fruits and other crops . This is very nice activity especially in the province where soil is fertilized and very spacious field . Today, vegetables and fruits are very expensive in the market . This is advantage of cultivating in our owned farm , anytime we can enjoy the harvest.