I managed to insert a dirty split garden cane 3 and a half inches up my arm 4 weeks ago whilst messing around with my 13 year old daughter, hit an artery and the muscle, numerous trips to A and e and still having it dressed. needless to say all my canes now have rubber protectors on them!!!
Ouch Janey! That sounds horrid. I always worry I'll get a cane in my eye one day. I feel I should award a prize to the most horrific injury, just to justify you all having to relive the pain on this blog! Kate
I was carrying a too heavy tub down the garden path, tripped hitting my ribs on the pot and cracking bone in my wrist. Dropped a log on my toe and broke it. Deadheading a begonia-did not see wasp on it-it stung my hand and I finished up in casualty [I am allergic to wasp stings] Picked up tray of tomato seedlings, turned around too quickly,tripped over tub of compost-hit ribs as I went down but worse I spilt all my seedlings. I sat on ground in agony and picked them all up [managed to save most of them]
Compared to these other injuries I think got off lightly. I've lost one of my nine lives though, when I was using my loppers to break up some large branches on the lawn. I cut through wood and also the lead of the hedgetrimmers which was still connected to the electricity. I heard a 'phut', saw a spark and thought I was a goner. But thanks to the rubber handles on the loppers and the rubber flip-flops I was wearing, I had a lucky escape. Another injury was when I pulled hard on a root that had to come out and fell over backwards on to my coccyx. The next day I had sciatica - the pain was unbearable and I spent several months having physio and eventually had to have a discectomy.
hi katie,i know you are a wizz on bees,so could you tell me ,,what should i do with a log-nest that i have,as i have some solitary bees that have cut out leaves and put in the holes [i guess they have laid eggs] anyway today i notices that 4 of the holes which are covered up with the cut out leaves have been chew ,does this mean the egg has hatched and the baby-bee has flown out if so do i clean out the hole which still has bits of leave left in there,,not sure what to do???? many thanks.
Couple of years ago I slipped on a wet plank and fell into the side of my greenhouse. Luckily we had gotten toughened glass and as I bounced off the glass the only injury was to my pride.
Hi sarahs pondlife, how lovely. They're probably leafcutter bees. You're right - the baby grubs just stay in the holes (protected by leaves) until they're grown and then they fly off, so I would think this is probably what's happened. I wouldn't bother moving the bits of leaves, if another bee wants to use the hole it can take the leaf out itself.
I fell on a rose when I was 8 and nearly lost an eye. Apart from the dreaded mossies. wasp bites,midges, etc things havent been too bad for the last 60 years. I read all these stories as cautionary tales and will try to be careful for "as long as I am spared!"
I was so bored at christmas 5 years ago that I decided to go and do a spot of gardening to alliviate the boredom.Unfortunately, it hard been snowing(a rarity in london).I slipped on an iciy step and had to be carted off to hosital,I had badly fractured the 3 bones at the bottom of my spine.I was in bed for weeks after that! Who ever said that gardening was a good form of execise for the body?
When I was A gardener for NACRO in 1986 A car ulled across in front of our van,I went flying onto the floor,The forks,spades,hoes etc..fell onto floor between the seats on top of me fell two very burly tall gardener's.I ended up with all my ribs broke,damaged hip bones,spine damaged(but not permentantly)Ended up in A&E and still on painkillers today!As you can see from the above injury it has not stopped me fron gardening!
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Dropped a log on my toe and broke it.
Deadheading a begonia-did not see wasp on it-it stung my hand and I finished up in casualty [I am allergic to wasp stings]
Picked up tray of tomato seedlings, turned around too quickly,tripped over tub of compost-hit ribs as I went down but worse I spilt all my seedlings. I sat on ground in agony and picked them all up [managed to save most of them]
many thanks.