WARNING
This is the time of year when one goes out into the beds and starts to cut things down. Watch your eyes when you bend over theplants. I am grateful for wearing glasses and have now only a holed eyebrow rather than a poked out eye.
BE CAREFUL please.
Well mentioned! I bent to lift a root out and left my cap on a bamboo cane. How close can you go?
Good point(ha ha ) Eric.. As someone who suffered a nasty corneal abrasion a few years ago I can appreciate the advice.
Check out the 'DIY On....' thread in Basics.
All the plant support canes have eye protection on them, either the proper penny apiece brightly coloured ones, film cases, corks, old pill containers etc. However, the stem which got me was a. not a cane, it was a piece of plant I was cutting back for spring and b, It was not in the ground, rather it was in the wheelbarrow and had somehow managed to stand itself upright.
Either way the warning still stands, PROTECT YOUR EYES.
Quote from: Mimi on January 21, 2006, 13:11:54
Good point(ha ha ) Eric.. As someone who suffered a nasty corneal abrasion a few years ago I can appreciate the advice.
SNAP! Mine happened last year in a client's garden...bending over one tub to reach the one behind it.......didn't know of the cane in the 1st. Still having trouble with that eye - the scar tissue seems to be causing probs - beginning to reach the conclusion that I'm going to need a referral to the H... :'(
And all this cos someone didn't put a cap on top of a b. cane >:( >:(
A timely warning as we all start again. The same goes for old bits and pieces of wood we once nailed together-I may be a `god` here but a jesus foot was no fun. I was lucky-just a puncture and no infection,but I am a lot more careful these days.
Good point about your eye's, but what about your back when lifting and digging. :o :o
With my eyesight, I have permanent eye protection in place; it's one of the few things that makes me glad of a pair of glasses. I have the biggest frames in the shop, every time, as small ones are like having tunnel vision. So they're pretty effective.
reading your notes it came to me that the same goes for any children / grandchildren that help in the garden for my two girls i paint bright colours in bands going from bottom to top it also scares some birds (babies who didnt know better) at about 2inch intervals its worked for me and them so far
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I worry when my children run around at the allotment, many canes are not covered and some people use them to mark the corners of their beds so they're sticking about 1 foot out of the ground, they only need to trip over and fall onto one of them and it could be very bad.
Please, don't. I still have nightmares about children and sharp pointed things after 50 years.
If there's kids about then yellow tennis balls might offer better protection?
Quote from: Palustris on January 25, 2006, 10:26:31
Please, don't. I still have nightmares about children and sharp pointed things after 50 years.
Hence previous warnings about not using slate for edging - made a nice mess of my foot from memory
also that stupid children will climb up fences despite repeated instruction otherwise and have two inch scar on leg 30 years on :'(
Thanks for the tape idea - I do use tops on canes, but have a bit of a problem with toddlers who just dont seem to look where they are going. I would have to superglue balls on, might be useful when they are a little older though.
At least you did not fall off 'buses carrying knitting needles. Shudder even now and it was 50 years ago at least.
I used empty pop bottles, comic relief red noses and empty one pint plassy milk bottles at the allotment on everything that is pokey....even apple branches if they are likey to spike me! I have been caught out on shrubs, and why oh why when you are digging does that little fleck of soil manage to hit you square in the eye? Not on the cheek, chin or even in your mouth, but square in your eye!!