They use the same stuff in those nappies as water retaining crystals; I'd say it's almost certainly one or the other. There were similar weird blue blobs reported about a year ago which turned out to be coloured water crystals which kids had been throwing about - like these:
Bob the garden oh yes the foxes do steal them nappies... My lo takes hers off in the garden when it was wamer and in the paddling pool etc. We put them in the outside bin "bang crash" one night next morning a trail of nappies down the garden ..... Found 3 in the woods...... Why on earth they would want them is beyond me ( just want to add just #1 not #2 nappies)
I don't see why not gardenjeannie. You'd have to probably experiment a bit to get the amount right. However, I read somewhere that they don't really help all that much with retaining water anyway (they did a test with identical hanging baskets) so I don't bother using them anymore.
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Hi Lesley, Sorry I can't help you with identification but thought I would let you know you are not alone with this problem. I too get the same brown jelly like substance in my beds. Mine is nothing like the photos,(they look very crystalized). It is a total mystery but I have believe it appears mostly during damp spells, would you agree?
Thanks, Bob. I haven't for last couple of yrs, but baskets dreied out quicker this yr so had thought might give them another try next yr. Won't bother now, thanks.
We had them on the lawn in SW France. The earth is hard, compacted limey clay, so I use the word "lawn" loosely. Any ideas anyone. I don't use water-retaining granules and don't have babies.
I found on the grass of my backyard spots of semi-transparent greenish jelly as shown in the picture. It has been raining a lot here in South Florida. Any idea what this may be?
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They use the same stuff in those nappies as water retaining crystals; I'd say it's almost certainly one or the other. There were similar weird blue blobs reported about a year ago which turned out to be coloured water crystals which kids had been throwing about - like these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aqua-Crystal-Expanding-Storing-Crystals/dp/B005H11MPE
PS, foxes steal these nappies from bins and bury them..
Bob the garden oh yes the foxes do steal them nappies... My lo takes hers off in the garden when it was wamer and in the paddling pool etc. We put them in the outside bin "bang crash" one night next morning a trail of nappies down the garden ..... Found 3 in the woods...... Why on earth they would want them is beyond me ( just want to add just #1 not #2 nappies)
So, Bob, could we take apart nappies and use the innards in potting compost? New nappies
I don't see why not gardenjeannie. You'd have to probably experiment a bit to get the amount right. However, I read somewhere that they don't really help all that much with retaining water anyway (they did a test with identical hanging baskets) so I don't bother using them anymore.
Hi Lesley, Sorry I can't help you with identification but thought I would let you know you are not alone with this problem. I too get the same brown jelly like substance in my beds. Mine is nothing like the photos,(they look very crystalized). It is a total mystery but I have believe it appears mostly during damp spells, would you agree?
Thanks, Bob. I haven't for last couple of yrs, but baskets dreied out quicker this yr so had thought might give them another try next yr. Won't bother now, thanks.
We had them on the lawn in SW France. The earth is hard, compacted limey clay, so I use the word "lawn" loosely. Any ideas anyone. I don't use water-retaining granules and don't have babies.
I found on the grass of my backyard spots of semi-transparent greenish jelly as shown in the picture. It has been raining a lot here in South Florida. Any idea what this may be?
thanks,
Hi Ruben
I think that's Nostoc algae - information here http://pnwhandbooks.org/plantdisease/pathogen-articles/pathogens-common-many-plants/bacteria-and-other-prokaryotes/management-cyanobacter
Hope that helps
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.