[Sca-cooks] Container Gardening (Was Medlars and lovage)

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> I think this is also the material used in some homemade moisture 
> bands. Basically rolled up and sewn bandanas filled with this stuff. 
> They start out dry but when you soak them in the ice water of your ice 
> chest, they swell up into squishy, jelly-like band covered in the 
> bandana material. You then wrap them around your forehead or other 
> part and the slow evaporation of the water keeps you cooler.

It is.  It's a polymer that absorbs up to 500 times its own weight in 
water.  I use Schultz Moisture Plus, which is available at Walmart and 
Home Depot in the garden department.  I've never used it for gardening, 
but it makes nice neck-coolers.

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Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
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