I must admit since becoming a plotter and not using gloves, my hands are as ruff as a dogs...but totally agree with the knitting blindfolded comparison. When I did wear them, the sensory in your fingers are lost and I became like Wreck it Ralph and every plant stem I handled snapped. Interesting results and reasons here though. I wish they done some really light thin gloves that don't make your hands all sweaty.
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.
I've got some £15 stanley builders gloves. They beat any gardening gloves and although I would not spend £15 on gardening gloves, that is their main purpose now, easy to pop on and off which is needed in a garden constantly, enough protection from thorns and beats digging without gloves. Gloves can be the difference between blisters or not.
My string backed, leather palmed, fingerless cycling gloves are wonderful. Mowing is comfortable because the palms are padded, weeding and tying in a cinch since you have full use of the ends of your fingers and the string backs let your hands breathe. They might not work for doing jobs where there's prickles but otherwise, what's not to like?
I put on gloves in the potting shed, go into the garden and after a while take off the gloves to do something fiddly and then rarely bother to put them back on. Is that ‘meh’? I thought that meant ‘I don’t much like it’ but whether ‘it’ is the questionnaire or gloves is open to interpretation!
Gloves are for cold weather, thorns, nettles and moving heavy lumps of hard stuff. Sometimes to prevent friction sores from repetitive tool use. Otherwise gloves are more trouble than they're worth. Maybe with me it's a reaction to my last job working in a hospital where gloves were de rigueur a lot of the time.
I have to wear gloves as I take immune-suppressants so have to be careful of cuts and scrapes. But for fine work I use latex gloves, otherwise cheap gardening gloves. I get through a lot each year.
I have started wearing the thin vinyl gloves that fit like surgeons gloves, mainly because I hate the smell when I pick up something to find the cat left a present.
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