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spring fever gardening injuries
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Posted by aeor nsw (My Page) on Mon, Oct 10, 05 at 3:23
Jumping into spring, I launched into the garden with enthusiasm and spirit. Two weeks ago I squashed (fractured) a finger while moving a rather large rock on my own. Of course that wasn't enough to put me off, and two days ago I with bandaged hand, lifted an enormous pot on my own and put my back out so that I can't even stand straight. Honestly I'm not usually so careless, I just seem to go into a zone while in the garden where all sense seeps out of my brain. This is only my first real spring gardening as I'm a novice, so I'm still not put off. I lay on the lawn today watching my toddler play and found myself with gloves and watering can dividing some dianella and transplanting two other plants!
Is there any hope? Perhaps the fever wears off after a few years?
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No, sorry the fever does not wear off at all. Just live with it!! lol.
Seriously though, I do hope your injuries will mend soon. I know how frustrating it is when there are all those jobs just waiting to get done and you can't get to them.
Cheers,
Dee. |
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Dees right it does not wear off it gets worse,
So do the injuries and on a brighter note look what you end up with.
The best garden in the street so it is worth it.
From one gardener who has her arm in a sling,
I hope you get better real quick. Cheers..MM. |
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- Posted by ashmeri Cent. Qld.Aust. (My Page) on
Mon, Oct 10, 05 at 7:14
Ouch, ouch.
I hope you heal quickly and before you do any more damage.
I have a black fingernail, holding a steel post for DH to drive in to make a wind break for the new rose garden, the sledge hammer slipped and I was a bit slow on the getaway.
Guess there will be a new fingernail coming to replace the old one soon.
Can't keep out of the garden though.
Marion |
RE: spring fever gardening injuries
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| And while you are showing the first symptoms of a life long problem, your toddler is contracting the disease from you. It is a very slowly progressing disease. You will think she hasn't caught it, until one day, when she is between about 24 and 30, she will say "Mum - what sort of conditions do carrots need to grow?" "How much is a trailer load of soil?" "When can I plant zucchinis?" "How do I prune my new rose bushes?" "You know that dianella you planted when i was little - can I have a piece of it please?" |
RE: spring fever gardening injuries
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Sparaxis - the fever catches on earlier than that!!! I am from a long line of keen gardeners - both my mother and grandmother still out there all day - I caught it when I was about 17, had moved out of home, realised there was no plants around me (I just took them for granted while living at home!!)and went and bought some punnets to pot up for my verandah- the addiction got worse and worse over my few years of renting - when I moved from my rental to my first house 4 years ago, it took about 4 big trailer loads to move all the pot plants!! So glad i own my house now and can plant stuff in the ground quite happily. And after 4 continuous years of planting, am really enjoying this spring - as so many of my plants (mainly the roses) have had a few years to get established - it is just great and very rewarding this spring!!!
and needless to say, whenever I visit Mum, I always come away with a bit of this and a bit of that. It is nice to take her new plants now too that she doesn't have!!
I am now 28, and the fever just gets worse and worse, I can tell you. I also don't have many friends my age that enjoy the garden - I am surprised when they even notice it. I just don't ever have enough time to do all that I need and want to do - have to make a living I guess!!
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- Posted by aeor nsw (My Page) on
Tue, Oct 11, 05 at 3:14
Ahh gardengirlWA but if you made it a living, what would your garden look like at home. My feeling is you would be fed up with plants and want to do anything else but garden! You know the architects who can't get around to designing around their own home, or the carpenter with a door that keeps falling off the hinges.
Oh... I just realised you said make a living, not make it (gardening) a living! Valid point though I reckon?
A ps my hand is still bandaged, my back still hurts, but I've had time to sit with a glass of wine and plan quite a few new projects... |
RE: spring fever gardening injuries
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| Ive given up dragging heavy bags of manure and heavy pots around, it kills your back every time! if you ever see a second hand fridge trolley going cheap you should grab it, it's perfect for moving heavy things around the garden like rocks or bags of manure etc and heavy pots, and the great thing is you dont need to lift it up like you do with a wheelbarrow, just roll it onto the trolley and roll it off again. :) |
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| I do hope your finger heals quickly and that you haven't done any permanent damage to your back, from one who has I strongly support tracegemini's post. I still overdo it in spring, I guess we all do after the winter, we are itching to get a good full day of gardening in. |
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I currently have some stitches over my left eye.
I sneezed whilst setting up the slasher on the back of the tractor.Near knocked my self out.SHowed up at the farm house door and Himself flew into a panic and insisted on doing the four minute mile to the hospital.Five stitches and a cup of tea later I was out on the tractor slashing the paddock.I am fortunate that when I wanted to move some rocks the little front end loader came in very handy.
I get hayfever really bad some days and it is no specific thing. |
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- Posted by aeor nsw (My Page) on
Wed, Oct 12, 05 at 5:48
Goodness, my injuries are sounding mild and insignifigant now. I hope all the injured are healing swiftly!
My main problem with the rocks is the fact they are on top of my land and I want some at the bottom. Controlled rolls are easy enough... It's the two flights of paving/rock stairs that get a bit tricky. Even with a trolley no doubt. Should really get the professionals in, or a couple of burly boys...
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RE: spring fever gardening injuries
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| You was in the wrong place at the wrong time aeor,or well ya finger was,back problems,so easy for any one to do,keep it straight,let the legs do the lifting,I always get caught with that.Calthrop,say no more,whew.Marion would have to pick a SLEDGEHAMMER,mein got und himmel and all that.Good to see young people getting ze bug and getting the hands dirty,so much fun.Had to throw away a rose this morning @@&&?<@%$@died,but being a good gardener I won,t let it upset me.Sorry about those cracks in the collar-boneMM take it easy,cheers everyone,greencroc. |
RE: spring fever gardening injuries
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I can sympathise with aeor
I was bitten in a WAY with the gardening bug
hence the name as I was a relatively normal 25 y.o male
until I brought my home and decide to try my luck with gardening
Now all I talk about is my garden and I dont stop for any injuries
I transplanted a banksia serrata (it is about 4m tall mind you)
and was scratch so bad by the leaves that I got 2 courses of antibiotics
but all I have to thank is the inventor of steel cap boots how many times I have slice into them i never know but still got all my toes
YOU WILL NEVER STOP BEING A GARDENER EVER!!
It is like a disease but with benefits
(time to put on my strait jacket) :) |
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