I have gardener's knee! Ouch...
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Comments (11)Hi Elly My knees are very bad also Impossible to get down and back up as I live alone. I have to hire ssome neighbr boys to do the big things for me. One thing I have done more of this year is container gardening--for instance all my annuals almost are in containers as the frost will get them and then I can reuse them next year. I use a lot of mulch to cut down on weeding And I use a plastic chair (the kind sold eveywhre to tote around to where I want to work and sit while weeding and even hoeing sometimes. I dont care what the neighbors think-it helps conserve my strength. I use a kitchen timer also to use so I dont overdo myself. I set it for 15 minutes and make myself change jobs in 15 minutes so that my knees get some exercise in moving about .I use a wheelbarrow to move everything so I dont have to carry so much and I use minitools when I can instead of large ones with full handles. And if I cant move on a given day because the weather has my knees aching I find something else to do for that day as a garden chore such as washing pots or flats or gathering eeds and drying them etc. Hope you keep gardening as long as you can....See MoreDid you have a HARD frost!!! Ouch...
Comments (11)Misery loves company I guess. Same here in north central CT. My hydrangeas all have leaves turning black this afternoon so I'm guessing no flowers this year. This stinks!!! Everything was perking merrily along and wham! Most of my WS sprouts & seedlings look okay but things that were planted out appear to have taken a hit. Guess I'll cover the hydrangeas next May 11 & 12. According to the Almanac, those are the Ice Saints' or Frost Saints' days. It also says St. Pancras Day (May 12) never passes without a frost. So glad I'm reading that today instead of yesterday when I could have done something about it....See MoreOuch! Ouch! Ouch!
Comments (9)Hey Pirate Girl, I was going to suggest the Glue also.. someone (who studies Opuntias) recently told me how she uses gauze and elmers glue to get them out. I personally use a pair of tweezers or an old triple blade disposable razor... not too sharp to cut me but sharp enough to pull them out. Sorry, I'm sure by now you've gotten rid of them. Unless you keep fussing with it! I had a small type that filled an 8 inch pot and hung over the sites. I rescued it from a neighbor who said they were leaving it out to freeze as they hated it... I took it and was sorry. I put it on a window sill in the living room and all winter long I kept getting the glochids all over me! Couldn't figure out how... Then I made the mistake of opening the window one nice breezy day and that was it! it went out side and never came back in again. The Glochids Blew all over the place! The way I kept getting them was solved one day when I noticed this reddish brown dusty looking stuff on my cats tail... Closer inspection revealed them to be TONS of Glochids! Seemed the cat enjoyed rubbing against it! Be careful where you put yours!...See MoreOuch...Ouch...Ouch
Comments (21)MorZ8, I've had exactly the same last July on splitting about 300 H. sternii pods, many of them before they were ripe in order to package up seed for the HELLEX seed exchange last year. I don't normally harvest until the pods split under very gentle pressure between finger and thumb, but this time I was being impatient to get these seeds in with others I was sending off. Any one who got H. sternii 'Beatrice le Blanc' in this years HELLEX exchange, I had days of numb, then itchy, then peeling skin off the fingers. It was very similar(though more extremedue to quantity) to the effect when cooking chillies, especially habaneros. So be patient and wait until the pods split under gentle pressure, rather than using your nails to force them open and shedding juice. I've never had this off any other species, but then I've probably never tried to harvest so early. Mary, your rash may be phyto photo sensitivity, many plants especially rue can cause this in conjunction with sunlight, my daughter had it quite badly when she was young. Any one know what the chemical basis of hellebore sap is. Cheers Greenmanplants....See Morecnetter
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