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What kind of garden injuries have you had

ChillibillChillibill Posts: 21
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Just fell over a holly tree root I dug out last wk, bruised leg and sore shoulder , God knows what else tomorrow
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Last year I tripped over the back door step, smashed my face on the tomato pots and broke my wrist and some fingers on the terrace image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ChillibillChillibill Posts: 21
    Ouch!
  • CarlyannCarlyann Posts: 52

    While standing on the rockery wall,missed my footing and landed bottom down in the middle of a rose bush   image  amazingly the rose survived image  my mood was a bit prickly for a few days though image 

  • ChillibillChillibill Posts: 21
    Picture of the accuse
  • ChillibillChillibill Posts: 21
    For some reason I can't get a picture up so I will try again tomorrow, too sore to rectify right now????
  • Woodgreen wonderboyWoodgreen wonderboy Posts: 2,322

    My pride was wounded when the judges in the local Show rubbished my huge rhubarb in front of me, without realising it was mine...imageimageimageimage

  • UnknownUnknown
    Dovefromabove wrote (see)

    Last year I tripped over the back door step, smashed my face on the tomato pots and broke my wrist and some fingers on the terrace image

     

    .....and Mr Dove was A-MA-ZING!!! image

  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053

    Sliced the side of my foot with a spade. It bled for hours and eventually I went to casualty. No stitches but lessons learned.

    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • cathy43cathy43 Posts: 373

    Last year I had a wheelbarrow full of manure, didn't notice the edge of a ramp, the wheelbarrow stopped , I didn't! Face first into the manure, trust me I was a lovely siteimage

  • LesleyKLesleyK Posts: 4,029

    In the no-mans-land behind our hedge I stood on a piece of wood with a nail sticking up from it.  Straight through my shoe and into my heel.  This gardening lark is a dangerous businessimage.  Glad everyone on here is still around to tell their taleimage

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