RangerDanger
New Member
These are some experiences I've had concerning people ripping me off.
-One year I decieded to grow in an area that was thick with stinging nettles and poison oak.
If you've never had an encounter with stinging nettles, consider yourself fortunate.
The slightest touch makes it feel like hundreds of red-hot pins have been driven into your skin. It hurts really bad at first, gradually fading after an hour or 2.
And poison oak/ivy--well, many people are familiar with this unpleasent bitch. A nasty rash and agonizing itching for over a week.
However, a immunity can be built up.
Every early spring when I first went out to pre-prepare my garden, I would on purpose barely brush up aganist both the nettles and poison oak. The nettles would hurt like hell and the poson oak would do what it normally does.
Every week I'd purposly brush up aginst the nettles more and touch more poison oak.
By mid spring, I'd be immune.
I could tromp through a patch of stinging nettles in shorts and it would barely tingle.
And I could walk through stands of head-high poison oak in shorts & t- shirt with no ill effect.
This natural barrier worked great. Potential rippers were loath to get stung and infested to check out this little side canyon.
But one year, someone did. I went out and someone had cut off all the branches of a dozen plants just a few weeks from being ready.
About a week later I was camping about 10 miles away and met a group of fishermen.
One of them pulls out a baggie of microwave dried weed and rolls a j.
He says "our friend jacked this last week. He found it growing about 10 miles away".
"wow" I said, playing dumb, "and where's he?"
"He's in the hospital man. He got poison oak so bad it's in his blood and they have him tied down to a hospital bed."
More stories to come. Stay tuned cause you ain't heard NOTHING yet.
-One year I decieded to grow in an area that was thick with stinging nettles and poison oak.
If you've never had an encounter with stinging nettles, consider yourself fortunate.
The slightest touch makes it feel like hundreds of red-hot pins have been driven into your skin. It hurts really bad at first, gradually fading after an hour or 2.
And poison oak/ivy--well, many people are familiar with this unpleasent bitch. A nasty rash and agonizing itching for over a week.
However, a immunity can be built up.
Every early spring when I first went out to pre-prepare my garden, I would on purpose barely brush up aganist both the nettles and poison oak. The nettles would hurt like hell and the poson oak would do what it normally does.
Every week I'd purposly brush up aginst the nettles more and touch more poison oak.
By mid spring, I'd be immune.
I could tromp through a patch of stinging nettles in shorts and it would barely tingle.
And I could walk through stands of head-high poison oak in shorts & t- shirt with no ill effect.
This natural barrier worked great. Potential rippers were loath to get stung and infested to check out this little side canyon.
But one year, someone did. I went out and someone had cut off all the branches of a dozen plants just a few weeks from being ready.
About a week later I was camping about 10 miles away and met a group of fishermen.
One of them pulls out a baggie of microwave dried weed and rolls a j.
He says "our friend jacked this last week. He found it growing about 10 miles away".
"wow" I said, playing dumb, "and where's he?"
"He's in the hospital man. He got poison oak so bad it's in his blood and they have him tied down to a hospital bed."
More stories to come. Stay tuned cause you ain't heard NOTHING yet.
