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Mary-Jane



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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 12 12:11 pm    Post subject: Gardeners told 'wash off compost'... Reply with quote
    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18206191

Barefoot Andrew
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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 12 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Fits in nicely with hoovering the polytunnel
A.

Went



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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 12 12:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The incidence must be so negligible considering the number of people pottering about in the garden and handling compost amongst other things - I would always wash my hands or wear gloves depending on what was doing as I think most people would I hope.

One tip I regularly follow (which makes cleaning hands easier) is to rub a bit of hand cream in before gardening and to scrape a bit of soap under the fingernails - it prevents a lot of scrubbing.

Penny Outskirts



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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 12 1:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Apparently you breathe the nasties in, so how will washing your hands help.

Went



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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 12 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Penny Outskirts wrote:
Apparently you breathe the nasties in, so how will washing your hands help.


When you are gasping for breath and holding on to the Oxygen mask at least your hands and nails will be clean...

judith



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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 12 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I am well and truly doomed then - half-way through our wedding ceremony, at the "With this ring" bit, I looked down at my hand and realised that I still had grubby fingernails from faffing around in the greenhouse! Don't know if the Registrar noticed, but he was too polite to mention it.

Mary-Jane



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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 12 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Barefoot Andrew wrote:
Fits in nicely with hoovering the polytunnel


*Flounce*

Mutton



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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 12 2:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm a great believer in the "peck of dirt" theory

BUT

Some years back, where I used to live, there was a nasty outbreak of really swollen balls amongst the male gardeners at a particular allotment. Basically men who had not washed the soil off their hands before grasping their equipment to go to the loo. Why it suddenly started happening and what it was, nobody knew. But the practice of fertilizing your allotment without washing your hands first turned out to be the common factor.

sean
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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 12 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

At least they'd have had a wheelbarrow handy for the walk home.

Barefoot Andrew
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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 12 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    


A.

robkb



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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 12 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Just as long as no-one tried to squeeze Mr Smith's prize pumpkins

DawnMK



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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 12 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I try to wear gloves when dealing with garden soil never mind compost because I was told that rats are incontinent and as they are running about they are weeing on the soil and you can catch Weils disease from female rats
but I thought compost you bought in was steralised
but I wash my hands after finishing whatever I am doing

madcat



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PostPosted: Tue May 29, 12 2:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I don't think about it so Iam probably doomed

Green Man



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PostPosted: Tue May 29, 12 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I wonder if peat free is worse than peat based composts? Our local council sells compost blended with garden waste limed human you know what!

oldish chris



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PostPosted: Tue May 29, 12 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mutton wrote:
But the practice of fertilizing your allotment without washing your hands first turned out to be the common factor.
When I worked in a chemical factory, it was normal procedure to wash your hands before going to the loo.

Back to the thread: define "Compost". My home made stuff, I'd have thought that legionnaire's disease is the least of your worries.

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