Currently typing with bandaids on both thumbs so please excuse typos and missedspaces.

Did some mechanic work a few days ago and forgot gloves. I washed with a nail brush and dishsoap as always but Now im suffering from both thumbs being inflamed and sore emanating from where thenail meets the thumb. I tried sucking and scraping to clean and cut the nails as short as i can. My usual trick is to scrape hard soap in under the nail before scrubbing, which works really well most time, but no cleaning method has worked this time. I can just barely see some black at the deepest part which i assume is engine oil. I dont think its some metal shard, since its both thumbs, didnt grind anything and usually splinters hiding spots can be pin-pointed by pushing on it but idk for sure. Also no pus leaking.

How do i get it out??? 😭 Whats your secret to dealing with inflammation?

Im thinking either some hydrogen peroxide cream on bandaids or moist gloves to soak in to loosen things up before trying to get whatever gunk is still there. I usually heal very fast, two other cuts from the same time are healing well and fast.

Idk anymore and its really frustrating…

Wishing you a good day and happythumbs!

Hi! Since liquid soap is so cheap I want to cheap out by making it cheaper. I pretty much always dilute it which extends its life but the resulting runniness lead to some soap escaping the hand washing my money straight down the sink.

This pain is unbearable and I’m thinking to add a little bit of corn or potato starch, agar or some such from the pantry to increase the viscosity How bad of an idea is this? I figure soap doesn’t really allow for microbe life and starch tends to be quite anti microbial. Same goes for dish soap. The soap is dumpstered so switching to hard soap isn’t cheaper and I haven’t found a foaming dispenser in the trash (yet). But soap is rare in the trash so I want to make last. Alternatively anyone know if a a regular pump can be made foaming or have other creative solutions?

Hello! Does anyone here make their own soil mixtures without purchased materials? If you look for home made soil, its usually just a mix of bought ingredients like peat moss, coco coir, perlite etc. Peat moss is fossil, coco coir and perlite is certainly not from around here so definitely transported long ways.

Now, I’m no gardener but I can see that all the native plants around me don’t have any of that luxury, yet they thrive. Compost is the next obvious answer, but if you haven’t yet had time to establish one, what options are there?

I’ve successfully grown plants like tomatoes, strawberries, herbs and salad in a mix of gravel, local manure, topsoil and rotted wood.

I am looking for recipes and information on such mixes as I often struggle with drainage which killed my cucumbers. I need huge amounts of gravel to keep the silty manure from clogging up my pots but 3kg pots become quite silly too and the gravel makes repotting an almost sure death to any roots I want to move.

What are the consequences of using uncomposted organic materials? Some gardeners say soil acidity usually solves itself through microbes, yet the common saying is that it must be composted first.

Happy gardening Cheers

Month later pictures added! I recognise it but no idea what its called and Plantnet didn’t find it

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45800580

Little sprout

Coming up in my garden right next to some forest (primarily oak mixed with beech, birch, maple) in southwest Sweden. Last year i dug the area out and removed (most) roots. Not much came up but this little sprout. I suppose it could be roots reaching in from the adjacent forest.

Hoping to find some resources for concoctions to brew for my garden. Nettle water is the classic, but there’s a lot of other options.

Does anyone know of a good resource listing what plants to brew for what nutrients? Or am i overthinking it and should just throw them together?

Generally calling out for pdfs and spreadsheets with dense information regarding what plants want and/or contain which nutrients.

Hello! Hope its okay to ask some questions here. I read you’re supposed to trim away the earliest sprouts on hops, as they’re usually bull bines. Bull bines are recognised by their large spacing between nodes as well as being hollow inside. These don’t look hollow to me and the nodes are rather tightly spaced I think. Should still cut them down?

Few weeks edit; new pictures attached. I recognise it but plantnet didn't seem very confident

Coming up in my garden right next to some forest (primarily oak mixed with beech, birch, maple) in southwest Sweden. Last year i dug the area out and removed (most) roots. Not much came up but this little sprout. I suppose it could be roots reaching in from the adjacent forest.