Dont wear trainers on the lottie

[Sparkly]

We have safety boots, but I do sometimes wear my Crocs. I only wear them walking around the raised beds though where it is all tidy and covered with woodchips. If I actually have to do any digging I put the boots on. Not worth the risk in my opinion. Hope your foot gets better soon.

[cornykev]

Same here, if I'm digging the steel toe wellies go on, otherwise I stick to my trainers, did make the old hairs stand up on my neck when I saw the nail though.      :o     :'(         ;D ;D ;D

[Kea]

I know exactly what it feels like, I've been there twice when I was a child.....6" nail straight through my sandal and foot and out the other side! I lived on a farm and something was always being constructed. My sister-in-law pulled it out the first time i didn't get taken to a Doctor for several days the first time until not being able to walk on it became a problem...then i was unable to sit down after the tetanus injection in the bottom. Second time I didn't even get taken to the Doctor at all, just a bit of dettol applied. i really don't know how I survived my childhood.

Also I've slipped over twice in one day at the lottie wearing my trainers and set my back recovery back about a year so now it's wellies or boots, definitely boots to strim I see people being very casual without safety wear on feet, hands and eyes.

[lewic]

I have a book called 'your allotment' by Clare Foster and in the photos (obviously posed but nonetheless) she is wearing flip flops

I have that book too, and thought exactly the same thing, the photo made me wince!

Remember my Mum [5th generation professional gardener so rather embarassed about the incident] sticking a fork through her wellied foot on a frosty winter day. She said the worst bit was when the doctor got a long cotton bud and stuck it down the hole to disinfect it. Nowadays it might make a trendy piercing?

[small]

I kicked a bonfire and got a hawthorn thorn through the top of my foot. It penetrated the joint capsule and I swole up dreadful. What made it worse was my other foot being in plaster after breaking a bone......but re the nail incident, does anyone know where I could get size 4 steel-toed boots?

[iowdigger]

nope size 4 work boots
work  with a bloke that has size 5 feet and he spends weeks looking for new boots

[kt.]

I always wear trainers at the lottie if the ground is dry.  I only really wear wellies if it has been raining and the ground is muddy

[Deb P]

I am a very bad example, as I wear Crocs in all weathers and dig in them as well! :-\  I do get the odd hawthorn spike in the bottom of them but just dig them out.... ::)

[GRACELAND]

We have already said about wearing Boots etc on assisted gardening Thread  :D :D

Safety  first

Clear your plot of the dangers to start with
:-X