Winkling out tiny weeds.

[kindredspiritkevin]

My fingers are a bit big for winkling out tiny weeds in under some of my Alpines, so I've bought two forceps!

I've only used the smaller one so far but it has been brilliant. No disturbance to the soil.

[Anthony Darby]

My goodness! I hope you adopt a suitably manic expression and evil laugh when you are winkling out the weeds. You might as well terrorise them first!

[Maren]

Golly, what sort of baby would be delivered with those?

[Maggi Young]

Golly, what sort of baby would be delivered with those?

One of these, I expect......


Thumbsized marzipan baby

[Martinr]

Golly, what sort of baby would be delivered with those?

One of these, I expect......

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Thumbsized marzipan baby

That is just a wee bit grotesque

[Maggi Young]

That is just a wee bit grotesque

The marzipan baby or the forcep delivery, Martin?
 I think the real thing is pretty awful for mother and baby.......




I'm told that the instruments shown are for holding swabs and grabbing blood vessels......

[jomowi]

I have used forceps for years for getting rid of tiny weeds, particularly in troughs (and no, I don't cut the lawn with nail scissors!) Forceps are particularly good for winkling out moss from within plants, - not so much the mat forming moss as the type which forms long strands.

[Lesley Cox]

Forceps are also necessary equipment if one wishes to collect seed of plants such as Erinacea anthyllis. I borrowed some from my doctor last year and was able to get about 200 seeds. Previously I'd only ever got half a dozen before I come up against the pain barrier. I've bought some for myself now.

[Anthony Darby]

The forceps in the pics are certainly more high tec than any of the numerous pairs, which range from plain fine pointed, plain fine pointed curved, straight pointed and round ended with grooved tips and the curved entomological ones that I possess.

[Maren]

Thanks for putting me in the picture about forceps.

But who would want to eat a marzipan baby? And where would they start? The mind boggles

[Anthony Darby]

I don't think I could, and I like marzipan!

[Neil]

Actually there are made from resins and polymer clays, see here  and I use round ended tweezers to remove seedling weeds.

[Maggi Young]

Actually there are made from resins and polymer clays, see here  and I use round ended tweezers to remove seedling weeds.

Thank goodness for that! Thanks, Neil 

[Neil]

Kevin what type of rock is the red one in your picture?

[kindredspiritkevin]

Kevin what type of rock is the red one in your picture?

Neil,

To be honest with you, I don't know.
I had about 8 of them left over from an Aquarium business and they had been just thrown in one of the sheds for years.
The slivers are "Red" sandstone from Kerry, but they're only red on the surface from iron rich water over eons. The sandstone is actually blue.
My crevice forming rocks (not shown in pic) are Killaloe Slate discards.

Kevin.