I've quite a lot of that in my garden. Aconitum or monkshood is actually very poisonous and as such needs to be handled carefully. You don't want to be risking handling it if you have an open cut or sore on your hand. You definitely don't want to be handling it without gloves on. But then I don't really quite get those who do garden with no gloves. Tetanus, leptospirosis and the dreaded nettles and now we have aconite and digitalis etc etc.
Like I said mine are past their best now and indeed I've cut quite a lot back but I've not got round to this clump in front of the delophinium which I'll leave for the seed heads. I've got several varieties. Some small flowers and a purply blue colour and then some with much largers flowers that are purply black colour.
I've been gardening for 40 years , professionally for 25 of them. I only wear gloves when it's freezing cold, handling very thorny plants, or cutting back Euphorbia Wulfennii.
I keep my tetanus up to date , other than that I've never had a blister, infected cut or any such thing. Maybe I've just been lucky? or the risks involved in gardening are really , really tiny and much overhyped?
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save some for me Lyn.
As you know, I'm a "fly by the seat of my pants kinda guy"
I'll take the risk.
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I am going to give them the fridge treatment this year, somehow I can't see your OH liking seeds In the fridge, especially poisonous ones!
I've quite a lot of that in my garden. Aconitum or monkshood is actually very poisonous and as such needs to be handled carefully. You don't want to be risking handling it if you have an open cut or sore on your hand. You definitely don't want to be handling it without gloves on. But then I don't really quite get those who do garden with no gloves. Tetanus, leptospirosis and the dreaded nettles and now we have aconite and digitalis etc etc.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/11215801/How-to-grow-Monkshood.html
http://www.thepoisongarden.co.uk/atoz/aconitum_napellus.htm
Lyn, forget the fridge. Sow them when they're ripe and leave them outside over winter.
(Like the clematis, same family)
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^ That's what I do. Mind you with temperatures we get it's colder in the garden than it is in the freezer let alone the fridge!
Mine is only the white one, I would love a blue.
Like I said mine are past their best now and indeed I've cut quite a lot back but I've not got round to this clump in front of the delophinium which I'll leave for the seed heads. I've got several varieties. Some small flowers and a purply blue colour and then some with much largers flowers that are purply black colour.
I've been gardening for 40 years , professionally for 25 of them. I only wear gloves when it's freezing cold, handling very thorny plants, or cutting back Euphorbia Wulfennii.
I keep my tetanus up to date , other than that I've never had a blister, infected cut or any such thing. Maybe I've just been lucky? or the risks involved in gardening are really , really tiny and much overhyped?
Don't grudge the journalists their sensationalism Hostafan.
We've all got to earn a living and unhyped facts don't sell newspapers
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