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Gloves or No Gloves?

Plot75Plot75 Posts: 69
edited June 2019 in The potting shed
I don't usually wear gardening gloves unless dealing with thorny bits but some people are horrified that I don't especially at the allotment, even when it's wet. Sooooo…. 
Mix 2tbsp of white,granulated sugar with 1tbsp of water and place on a spoon for a Bee to reach. Sometimes they're too exhausted to reach back to the hives when it's hot and dry. 

Gloves or No Gloves? 57 votes

Always wear gardening gloves
42%
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Bare handed all the way
35%
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Meh
22%
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  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    Always wear gardening gloves
    It's not quite as simple as the always I clicked. but 95% of the time it's gloves, when tying up something it's bare hands I can't manage string in gloves! Also when weeding the strawberries that are in plastic, if I use gloves I'll probably pull half the flowers off.
  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    Always wear gardening gloves
    Oh yes, I ticked always gloves too but you've reminded me that I do have to do tying in and other jobs requiring dexterity without gloves.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Bare handed all the way
    I can't feel anything in gloves, but then I have a small garden so I don't do much wrestling with brambles, trees and rambling roses. Full scale gardening with large borders, ponds, field edges or orchards is a whole other world.
  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    Bare handed all the way
    Sorry to be old but what does meh mean?
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I can't tick any boxes as I'm the same as OP . Gloves only for thorns and euphorbia
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Plot75Plot75 Posts: 69
    Bare handed all the way
    Meh is kind of, 'neither here nor there' with it. 
    Mix 2tbsp of white,granulated sugar with 1tbsp of water and place on a spoon for a Bee to reach. Sometimes they're too exhausted to reach back to the hives when it's hot and dry. 
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Bare handed all the way
    I really try and wear gloves, I really do. My hands are a dry and cracked mess.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    Bare handed all the way
    In that case I tend not to wear gloves but sometimes wish that I had.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Bare handed all the way
    Every so often I try to wear gloves but it’s like knitting with a blindfold ... makes me totally cack-handed ... needless to say I get through a lot of handcream. 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Bare handed all the way
    So, people wear gloves mostly because the skin dries out so much?
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