I try to wear gloves, but often I start an impromptu task and then end up gloveless and filthy. Those thin surgical gloves are ideal for fine work (I am used to wearing them for work, so I feel quite dexterous even with them on) but they soon rip and are poor for recycling/disposal. I usually get through a bumper pack of the cheap cloth gloves per year too (the fingers go and the right hand! so if anyone wants twenty left gloves...) I do have “good” ones for thorny or heavy tasks.
Gloves almost always as I feel like I’m washing my hands all the time anyway, with food and kids...you don’t want compost under your nails making a baby bottle.
If I had a whole day just gardening I wouldn’t be so bothered.
I wear gloves most of the time but might take them off to write on a label or pick some fruit then forget to put them back on and before I know it am planting stuff monty don style, he never wears gloves.
Never used to wear gloves but a particularly nasty encounter involving a rose thorn and a knuckle (which became infected and swelled to the size of a golf ball) made me rethink.
Took a long time to find the right ones - most are either too big, too thick, too stiff or develop holes after 2 sessions - but the ones I use now are perfect (and last a whole season).
However, pricking out, tying in, dead heading - those are all jobs done without gloves.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
I wear gloves most of the time. Probably because I got into gardening when I was 'of childbearing age' and there are lots of cats and foxes round here. But the habit has stuck and I feel much more comfortable with them on. I do take them off for tying string, pricking out etc., but once that's done I generally get them back on. I like leather ones that mould to my hands so I can feel pretty much everything, but that are loose enough to slip on and off easily.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I am ogf the David bellamy school and like to get my hands in and rummage among all the "wittle gwubs"... Ladies may wish to look after their soft hands.
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Those thin surgical gloves are ideal for fine work (I am used to wearing them for work, so I feel quite dexterous even with them on) but they soon rip and are poor for recycling/disposal. I usually get through a bumper pack of the cheap cloth gloves per year too (the fingers go and the right hand! so if anyone wants twenty left gloves...) I do have “good” ones for thorny or heavy tasks.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
If I had a whole day just gardening I wouldn’t be so bothered.
Took a long time to find the right ones - most are either too big, too thick, too stiff or develop holes after 2 sessions - but the ones I use now are perfect (and last a whole season).
However, pricking out, tying in, dead heading - those are all jobs done without gloves.