Danger in the Garden

[Lou Barron]

Just reading the paper today that there been one death and several bad cases of Legionnaires disease in CHCH they blame compostand potting mix for the cause of it .Well i have messed around with these things for years.So do i stop the gardening and sit and watch TV and go to seed Not bloody likely i just love the garden growing your own vegies also the flower garden . It keeps you fit .

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Lou
Yes indeed i too have read about that,and not to put a mocker on anything one of my Uncles just recently got that from working in his garden and we sadly lost him!
I think however that like you i too work in the Garden growing my little Vege Patches with several types of Veges,but must admit to always wearing Gloves of some sort when handling any Potting mixes or soil that is not natural (that is what is in the ground already)
Here in Aus where we live there has also just of late been another warning due to the high Humidity here,that we should be wary of Funnel Web Spiders now coming out after all the Rain we have had recently!
There have been a few cases of Bites,and 2 people have allready died of this!
This is a rare thing here where we live,but seems this Year the Humidity is much higher than normal!
Oh well just have to soldier on,as you say we cant stop life going on ! How awful if one just had to sit inside all day ,then we would become the Vege! LOL!
Cheers

PS I have just recently bought a half Wine Barrel filled it with some good Soil and planted my Tomatoes threin!
Must say that they are doing very well ,must like the Wine Aroma on the Barrel sides haha!
I had better watch out when i start to eat them !
Cheers

[Gulliver]

..... I have just recently bought a half Wine Barrel filled it with some good Soil and planted my Tomatoes therein!
Must say that they are doing very well ,must like the Wine Aroma on the Barrel sides haha!

Cheers

Mmm-mm ! Don't we all,Vernon !Cheers Wine.gif

[Neville Roberts]

I remember my old Dad and his 20 ft home built greenhouse , he used to grow tomatoes ,cresanthes, and had a grape vine init about 40 feet long up and back along the greenhouse . every year he used to go to the local slaughter house and buy a five gallon drum of animal blood ,and mix it in with the soil, he said it was the best fertilizer . the tomatoes did come out very red .true story .

[Bev Summerill]

seems an awful waste of a lot of wine I hope you drank it all first

[Lou Barron]

Well Vernon we dont have Funnel web spiders there nothing like that in my garden we do have a few poisonous spiders but not round here i consider the spider are good for the garden the clean up insects that are bad for the garden .My wifehad a maniaof spiders if she saw a spider in the glass house out would come the fly spray and i would go crook .i do have a story about red back spiders but thats not here

[Tony Wilding]

HELLO LOU, I allways thought New Zealand did not have any poisonous insects, or reptiles, thought only Australia had them, ? ? ? regards, Tony, W.

[Captain Kong]

The only dangerous thing in my garden is getting a bad back.
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So I let HER do the gardening.
Brian.

[j.sabourn]

That was my excuse as well Brian. She must have got wise to that as she now complains about the same thing. So we called in the S.O.S. serve our seniors. Kept out of the way when two blokes came to do some weeding, they looked older than me, they come once a month now so I keep out of the their way in case they think I'm a weed not to be doing myself. Cheers John Sabourn

[Tony Morcom]

Funny that John. My wife used to employ a gardener when I was working. That stopped when I found out she was paying him more an hour than I was earning!!!