Gold can be toxic to the liver and kidneys. Perhaps a prudent person
should stop wearing man-made gold while avoiding aluminum.

Don

It's compounds are, but gold worn as jewelry or eaten on desserts or
drunk in liquor are for the most part inert and not readily absorbed
by the body therefore not a concern.

Cheers,

Ned

oh hail the new Martha Stewart of gardening gitch!!! Dang girl, are you ever
crafty today!! I read your idea's and got a well needed laugh. You been
smoking the old cranium herb?? GBSEG those are great ideas, but tedioius
woman!! as for a good source for lables, there are plenty of greenhouse
suppliers willing to sell lables..........wonder why we can't just use the
lables that come in the plants and maybe seal them with laminated plastic
and mount onto something? dowels painted in polyurathane comes to
mind.........................madgardener off to rest with pulled
shoulder/rotor muscle now...............
"paghat" wrote in message
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In article ,
wrote:

Dwight Sipler wrote:

The strips of aluminum can will have sharp edges, so you might want to
bend them over to avoid hazards to small children and pets.

I think cutting up a bleach jug and using a permanent marker might be a
better
idea. No sharp edges and the plastic lasts a long time. Could be a use
for
old floppies too. Thread a wire or string through the hole and write on
the
floppy with a marker.

I'm picturing a garden decorated with cut-up Budweisser cans & Clorox
bottles.

How 'bout making an elaborate paper collage with the name of each plant
somewhere on the collage, imbed the collage in a block of fiberglass
resin, mount the block of resin on a three foot length of rebar, & pound
these in the ground in front of each plant.

OR, buy a kiln to manufacture your own bathroom tiles but adapted as
garden tiles, each tile glazed with naive images of flowers, & the name of
the plant, & these would be strewn about in the garden in from of each
plant.

OR, with copper wire & the tiniest glass beads, use needlenosed pliars to
shape a length of beaded wire into the name of the plant. Nail this to the

top edge of a one-foot-long chunk of two-by-four & cement the other end of
the 2x4 into the ground near the labeled plant.

OR, with a woodburning kit make Buddhist gravemarkers our of slats, with
the names of flowers instead of the dead burnt right into the slats. If
you're worried the wooden slats will rot in a few years, then get plastic
toy airplanes in all sorts of colors, & use the woodburning kit to melt in
the names of the plants on the wings of the airplanes & hang them from the
appropriate plants.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

"paghat" wrote in message
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In article , "Don K"
wrote:
Man-made aluminum & aluminates MIGHT have some involvement in the
development of alzheimers disease, though years back when Science
Digest
did a whole issue about it, looked like only about one out of ten
researchers thought it much likely.

Aluminum is an element and strictly speaking, is not something that
is man-made.

Pure aluminum does not exist in nature, & its existence was not even known
until 1808, & it was another 80 years before it could be extracted
affordably from boxite & alumina. Boxite is found just about everywhere in
nature; aluminum per se is not. When metalurgists first learned to purify
aluminum from boxite, it cost more per ounce than gold. Nowadays it costs
us here in the Northwest our salmon resources, there being no more salmon
runs at all in rivers & streams near aluminum plants.

Most mining involves dealing with nasty by-products.

A lot of gold is also obtained by refining ore thru all sorts of chemical
processes. Yet we don't refer to it as man-made gold. There's no
alchemy involved. It's just recovering the gold that is locked up
in other compounds.

Gold can be toxic to the liver and kidneys. Perhaps a prudent person
should stop wearing man-made gold while avoiding aluminum.

Don

There are no such things as gold ores to my knowledge.

Sure there is, Calaverite, Chalcocite, Bornite,
Chalcopyrite and enargite, are a few....

Gold is an almost inert element.

As far as I know, gold is always found as a simple metal.

No. That would be native gold--which is rare. Most gold is in ores.


Cheers,

Ned