This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.
DANGER!!!
Al-lotmant
Posts: 3
Hi All,
I'm new to the site and need some help.
I have discovered Datura stramonium growing on my allotment. I have about 6 of the little blighters growing and if all I read is to be believed, I need a full nuclear fall out suit to go anywhere near them. Therefore I ask, what/how is the best way to remove these invaders without seeing flying pink elephants for several days after?
Thank you in advance.
Last edited: 22 August 2017 14:24:55
0
Posts
Long sleeves and gloves ... I've never suffered any ill effects from pulling them up and putting them in a bin or letting them dry out and burning them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Don't over react. Just apply common sense and take precautions as Dove says.
All sorts of potentially harmful plants out there from the obvious ones like stinging nettles to the medicinal ones like digitalis and yet the human race and its gardener subset have survived for millennia. Even rhubarb and potatoes are harmful if you eat the wrong bits.
Last edited: 22 August 2017 14:50:59
Thank you for the advise guys. I'll let you know if I get to see those pink elephants.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I pulled a couple of those out today, and divided some aconitums. I didn't eat them, I washed my hands before lunch and I'm still here, same as last time.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I just run over them with the lawn mower. Never saw any pink elephants (not from THAT plant, I mean)
So good luck and stay sober,lol
Thank you everyone for the advise. Little beasties safely removed and no Pink elephants in sight.
Remember this as a kid, playing with the seedpods, used to take them to school and try to get people to sit on them!!!! Ouch.
Never did me any harm, my family and friends would probably disagree.