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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.
I adore worms. I love finding big fat ones and having a little chat with them in the palm of my hand. Incredible creatures.
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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:)
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ha for you there sure is. How do you do it?
I 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!
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.
Omg BLEACH!!! that's crazy and gross.
Agreed! But his fingernails were things of wonder whenever he put down a plate before a customer. He was very well tended himself.
wow, congrats @owasco and @davedickeyyall! 👏😍
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STOPEverytime 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.
I only use gloves when I have to shovel a lot, use a pick ax, or move around wood and that type of thing.
Do you guys have any dangerous spiders?
Not that I know of. Do you?
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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.
I got raspberries without thorns.
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.