Topic: Make up brushes

[Multiveg]

I don't wear a lot of make up, so when a friend of my then boyfriend bought me a make up brush set, I used the brushes for cleaning the dust off my cacti and fertilising the flowers. I recently found them again (they were at my folks' house where my cacti live) and brought them back to Wales for use in the greenhouse. Handy for brushing soil off leaves after repotting plants, etc. Was there somewhere a comment that plants are happier if their leaves are brushed?

[eileen]

Hey what a brilliant idea!!! Now why didn't I think of that before!!!
Like you I don't wear make-up much but always seem to get brushes at Chrissy time. I've been using them for cleaning my keyboard and tape decks etc but guess what they'll be used for now!!!!
Thanks for the tip.

Eileen.

[Multiveg]

When I was in the sixth-form, I was doing chemistry. The teacher was an absolute nutter and requested an afternoon off (i.e. cancelling our lesson) so he could go home and use a paint brush for cacti flower fertilising. He said he had two greenhouses full of cacti and has showed at Chelsea before. In compensation (perhaps), he gave some of us the cactus that contains the hallucinogen, Mescaline  ;D :o

[eileen]

Blimey!!!  :o Never had a teacher like that when I was at school!!  :( All I remember about our chemistry teacher is that he broke a 6' wooden rule over a lads backside once!!

Eileen.

[Roy Bham UK]

My MIL was told by her parents to use a paint brush to spread milk over the leaves of their Aspidestra  :o when she was very young to keep it fresh and shiny looking, anyone else done this? ::)

Roy ;D

[Tenuse]

Yes Roy but it is easier with cotton wool!

Ten x

[Mrs Ava]

My mum once did me a favour whilst I was on holiday by cleaning my yucca leaves with milk...and the yucca upped and died!  Don't think it suits all plants.

[teresa]

I never did understand using milk, always thought as it dried some plants breath through the leaves so plant cannot breath.
Now give a plant a warm water wash or shower that I do to clean the leaves of house plants.

[Jesse]

I tried the milk thing using cotton wool but found that they leaves then collected dust 10 times quicker, think the milk left a sticky residue. I water my house plants in the bath and shower the leaves to clean them.