Turnip Leaves - Stinging?

[Charlotte Sometimes]

Thinned out my turnips yesterday.  They're doing very well.  However, I noticed the leaves really seemed to irritate my hands - almost like stinging nettles.  My skin has blistered a little, too.  Anyone else experienced this?!  Or do I have mutant turnips?!  :o

[Charlotte Sometimes]

[tim]

Same like courgettes? And Radishes?

[chrispea27]

Yes I have had the same problem. There seems to be tiny hairs causing the irritation  on turnip and courgette leaves similar to nettles ow ::)

[Charlotte Sometimes]

Same like courgettes? And Radishes?

This year is my first of growing courgettes.  I don't like radishes much, so not growing them.  Guess I will have to don gloves next time.  They didn't put that in my veggie books!

[Charlotte Sometimes]

Yes I have had the same problem.

Oh good. Well, not good.  At least I'm not imagining it! 

[aquilegia]

It's tomato plants for me. I have to wash off all that yellow stuff from my hands and arms after handling them or I start itching.

[Doris_Pinks]

Borage for me, man that stuff irritates!

[Svea]

i have a pair of old driving gloves (fabric and leather) which i use for gardening. they are excellent. also considering the amount of small shards of glass onmy plot, i am wearing them every time i do anything around the plot.

dont get irritated but MIL does on tomatoes, like aqui

[Charlotte Sometimes]

On The White Album by The Beatles, at the end of one track(? which I forget) John Lennon yells "I've got blisters on my fingers".  I always assumed this was from guitar playing, but maybe he'd been thinning his turnips. Or pinching out toms.  Or picking borage!  :o LOL

[kitty]

i always find the woman at no.33 very irritating-i think i may be alergic to her.


charl-you could ,of course,have some stinging nettles IN your turnips! ::)

[Charlotte Sometimes]

Kitty

I was wondering when someone was going to say that.  :D  The mesh has done a good job on stopping the weeds growing too.  I checked for nettles, it was my first thought, but there were none.

How do you know my neighbour? (woman at 33?).  Irony of ironies I live at a no. 35.  ;D 

[kitty]

haha!-good job i didn't pick 35 at random then! ;D

i know-theres always one s***t a**e isnt there.. ::)
itsnt it strange what things people become allergic to?...a friend of mine has just become allergic to rabbits...good on the one hand-she doesnt like bunnies......slightly less good because shes a vet  nurse :(

[BAGGY]

I live at 39 - phew if you'd have gone the other way .......

[kitty]

 ;D ;D ;D ;)

[return of the mac]

Not me, i love the feel and sound that pumpkins make when you touch them

[Mrs Ava]

Almost all plantlife at the allotment seems to bring my hands up.  Tonite they are sore, blistered, cracked and I am having trouble straightening them.  I really should get a gentler hobby!

[kitty]

i suffer from cracked finger ends which bleed profusely in the winter-mmmmmm!nice!most attractive!
anyway-i recommend'Lotil' hand cream from the chemist-non-greasy-soothes the cracks and helps them heal quickly.....

[BAGGY]

Kitty.  Try honey on your paws.  My fingers split all the time and the only way I can get them to heal is honey and a plaster.  I even dose the kids on camp with it as we're not allowed to give them 'drugs' including the likes of savlon etc.

[kitty]

thanks baggy-i'll try that-honey seems to cure most things doesnt it?
ta!-purr..

[Doris_Pinks]

I use manuka honey for all that ails! Good for bad tums too! 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3787867.stm