Gardening..

[iateyoubutler]

[QUOTE 4802469, member: 9609"]I got some pretty nasty chemical burns off that many years ago - it really is nasty stuff if the sun is shining. Are yu near a river? I have only ever seen it next to rivers.

great job BTW[/QUOTE]
Only next to rivers? The bloody stuff is everywhere right now, it`s sap melts human flesh and it`s nasty - it`s in all the hedgerows right now, we need to be careful when cycling

 

[Mark1978]

[QUOTE 4802469, member: 9609"]I got some pretty nasty chemical burns off that many years ago - it really is nasty stuff if the sun is shining. Are yu near a river? I have only ever seen it next to rivers.

great job BTW[/QUOTE]
Not next to a river, but do have a fenland ditch running up the side where we have seen a few hogweeds and they are spreading year on year. Glyphosphate seems to kill it off. Think i have a tiny 5mm spot where its either a bad sting from nettles/thistles (hopefully) or a touch of hogweed sap that got through my glove somehow.

 

[slowmotion]

My enthusiasm for gardening is limited to playing with noisy destructive toys that emit a whole lot of two-stroke exhaust....brush cutters, mowers, chainsaws etc. I'm hopeless at actually nurturing plants. Mrs slowmotion is the creative one.

 

[keithmac]

The last 2 weekends we went from this

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to this....

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And boy am i feeling it now! What you cannot seein this picture is the mass of nettles that i had to pull out, and the nasty giant hogweed that we had to remove very carefully!!

Good going there!.

I saw some pictures of a little girl with horrendous chemical burns to her arms caused by hogweed, can't believe how nasty it is!

Told my two about it but hopefully they won't come across it if it only grows near running water..

I read bracken contains cyanide in it as well?.

 

[keithmac]

It gets worse, I've just spent most of my day off stripping wallpaper.

Tiling next, the fun never ends..

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Good going there!.

I saw some pictures of a little girl with horrendous chemical burns to her arms caused by hogweed, can't believe how nasty it is!

Told my two about it but hopefully they won't come across it if it only grows near running water..

I read bracken contains cyanide in it as well?.

Bracken does contain cyanide but none of us have the teeth to get through enough to even know. Stick to kale. In my yoof one of my instructors taught me that the rolled up, nutty leaves could keep you alive for a bit. I'd rather eat my mate. Apple seeds have arsenic but you need a wheelbarrow full for any effect. I prefer water biscuits myself.

A client's SIL has horrific hogweed scars across his torso. Work experience. Strimming a bank without a shirt on...

...Yeah. Exactly.

 

[keithmac]

Bracken does contain cyanide but none of us have the teeth to get through enough to even know. Stick to kale. In my yoof one of my instructors taught me that the rolled up, nutty leaves could keep you alive for a bit. I'd rather eat my mate. Apple seeds have arsenic but you need a wheelbarrow full for any effect. I prefer water biscuits myself.

A client's SIL has horrific hogweed scars across his torso. Work experience. Strimming a bank without a shirt on...

...Yeah. Exactly.

Thing is you wouldn't know any different, I only found out about it a few weeks back by chance, before that I'd have pulled it up with my bare hands without a thought!.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Thing is you wouldn't know any different, I only found out about it a few weeks back by chance, before that I'd have pulled it up with my bare hands without a thought!.

You were lucky. Phew. Poor old Ishmael didn't know any better and he ended up in the belly of Moby Dick.

 

[Dirtyhanz]

I gave up a highly paid office job to become a lowly paid gardener I am loving it after 30years working in offices I wish I had done it twenty years ago
Gardens the best exercise next to cycling and maybe something else

 

[keithmac]

Is this hogweed?, there was another plant the same but 6' high near it (should have took a picture).

 

[postman]

GARDENING is a chore.I used to like it, now it's a pest.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Is this hogweed?, there was another plant the same but 6' high near it (should have took a picture).


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Nope. Looks like cow parsley to me. Grandfather to the garden variety carrot. The other guys are nettles and bed straw/goose foot/goose grass/cleavers/sticky willy.

I said willy

 

[Jimidh]

GARDENING is a chore.I used to like it, now it's a pest.

Gardening is a chore - luckily I have a teenage boy who is always looking to earn cash.

Just been watching him cut my grass .

 

[Lullabelle]

I enjoy gardening, I have an office job and at times it can be mentally challenging so gardening is a great way to unwind and burn off some energy. It is very rewarding to see a tidy lawn and flowers that are the result of time and effort.

 

[fossyant]

It's hard work, but when you have a home and a static caravan's garden to maintain, that's more than enough. When the MIL want's her garden doing (big detached) then it's no chance. I have to do mine in stages due to my back. Lots of bending makes a very unhappy me.