Re: [gardeners] Sadness in the Monday garden

George Shirley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:56:43 -0500

Kay Lancaster wrote:
>>Wish she had picked the cukes, squash, and eggplant before she left. I
>>think I'm getting allergic to the pricklies on their leaves as I break
>>out in a rash anywhere I touch them. It's gone in an hour or so but sure
>>bugs me while it's there. Anyone else ever experience this?
> 
> 
> Try dusting your hands and arms with talc (corn starch in less humid 
> climes)... works for a lot a folks with rashy sorts of responses 
> to stiff trichomes.
> 
I'll give it a try but WOW! wishes do come true, Harry Boswell was just 
wishing for you to come back. <BSEG>

George