Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Chatting on the Plot => Topic started by: mrs bouquet on June 17, 2018, 12:48
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I have very long finger nails, which I look after and always wear nail-polish.
Here are 2 tips to help look after them, well 3 actually,
No 1:
Wear gloves - if you are like me and never wear them, and dig your garden with bare hands, follow tips 2 and
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No 2:
Before gardening, gouge your nails into a bar of hard soap, and leave it there for the duration.
No:3
When you have washed your nails after gardening, then use a spare toothbrush and gently rub your nails with whitening toothpaste and all the discolouration will go.
I am full of (mostly useless) information, regards Mrs Bouquet
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Thanks for the tips Mrs Bouquet. Every year I start off, promising myself I will wear gloves this year. Every year, after 2 or 3 visits to the garden I can't find 'm anymore and soon decide to stop bothering..
Because I sell my fresh products (based on fermented nuts) at a farmers market my hands must look really clean ::) So there I go, in the future: I will try and clean them with toothpaste.
Actually I am going now, so wil dig in a bar of soap first.
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My nails are strong and grow long, despite me abusing them! I use the rubbing soap under fingernails as an aid to get them clean after a plot visit.
It's getting the ingrained dirt out of thumb and index finger that I have trouble with, sometimes even pumice stone doesn't work ::)
Yes, I know I should wear gloves, my son even brought me a posh Laura Ashley pair to encourage me to do so, but I can't seem to get into the habit, though :nowink:
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Yes I try hard to remember gloves too but one forgetful dig into the compost and that old thumb and index finger look as if the havn't seen soap for a month !