Not for the Squeamish!

[Tippin Alaybye]

i'm laughing but not sure i agree after reading the above reports🤣

[Stubby]

On 06/06/2021 at 08:29, the village idiot said:

Yes indeed.

 

In my farm worker days I once got horrendous blisters on my legs and arms after hand pulling weeds in a parsnip crop on a sunny day.

You can get burns from celery  when you harvest it .  I used to strim a sight by a railway line that had some giant hog weed . I tan very quickly and have dark skin after a short time in the sun . There are tinny white , or lighter dots on my for arms that only show up when I am tanned . I am sure it is down to the hog weed from back then .

[sime42]

Well bloody hell. Who would have thought innocent veggies could be so nasty!

[sime42]

Maybe the key is to make sure you do any strimming of suspicious vegetation only on overcast days..

[Billhook]

My wife and I had a ride down to the lake and walked around where I had been strimming and sure enough there was a patch of young giant hogweed amongst the nettles which I had not seen.   She says that in Denmark they call it the Devil's Claw!

[Paddy1000111]

You were lucky then if it was giant hogweed rather than the regular stuff. Giant hogweed can cause blindness and all sorts!

[sime42]

Must have been very young plants too. No way you'd miss them otherwise, they're great big buggers when fully grown!
Anyone got any idea why they're called Hogweed anyway?

[Vedhoggar]

33 minutes ago, sime42 said:

Must have been very young plants too. No way you'd miss them otherwise, they're great big buggers when fully grown!
Anyone got any idea why they're called Hogweed anyway?

There are native hogweeds and introduced/naturalised hogweed, the giant hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum was introduced in the 1800s but the smaller native hogweed or cow parsnip Heracleum sphondylium was cut and used as fonder for pigs hence the name.

[sime42]

Great knowledge, or research! Thanks. I had a vague idea the Giant HW wasn't a native.

[Tippin Alaybye]

Genesis did a song about it in 1971. “Return of the Giant Hogweed”

 

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