On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:06:50 +0100, Derek
wrote:




Personally I enjoy getting my hands into the compost, it is half the fun
of potting up plants!

Yesterday evening at our Society meeting we had a visiting speaker who
used to work in the Garden Trade, and now retired still runs a small
nursury. After fifty years he now, when potting up using compost,
wears disposal latex gloves.


www.lincolnfuchsiasociety.info

I've used disposable gloves when pricking out/potting up for years and
heavier gloves when planting in the ground. I also keep TCP and
"sanitiser gel" in the garden shed - better safe than sorry as my doc
won't give me tetanus boosters any more because I react badly to them.