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To: oldvirginian
What are gardening gloves? That those gloves city slickers wear to the garden?

Or, anyone who's ever had to have a piece of plant matter surgically removed from their hand. Not fun!!! Did you know that plant stems don't show up on xray?

I was a bare-handed gardener up till then. I still skip the gloves if I'm just digging or planting. Anything that involves tugging on stems? I'm wearing the bulletproof gloves for that.
88 posted on 06/11/2018 8:50:34 PM PDT by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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To: Ellendra

“Or, anyone who’s ever had to have a piece of plant matter surgically removed from their hand. Not fun!!!”

I’m in the habit of just plowing everything under and discing it up good.
This year is the first time I have tried a small garden. Just some tomatoes in pots and peppers on an old flower bed.

“Did you know that plant stems don’t show up on xray?”

That I did not know.
Makes sense though, the plant matter would have about the same density as human tissue.

Did you know a thorn from a briar plant can work its way through a tractor tire and cause a flat?


91 posted on 06/12/2018 9:19:50 AM PDT by oldvirginian (Horsepower=how hard you hit the wall, torque=how far you take the wall with you.-RIP John Winters)
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