The amount I tear my hands up, I should wear gloves but find them cumbersome. Maybe I just haven't found the right pair. It would be easier than spending so long picking thorns out of my fingers.
I nearly always wear gardening gloves, but not for tying string and pricking out seedlings. I'm quite fussy about which ones, not too thick as I need to feel through them, except when pruning roses when I wear thicker ones. They must have fat enough fingers as I often have swollen fingers, also lumpy knuckles because of arthritis so a lot of gloves don't fit. I hate dirt under my finger nails.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
My gloves have more mud on the inside than outside most of the time. I regularly take them off to do some fine task and end up with muddy hands then just shove them back on. I use them a lot over the winter though and favour the thermally lined ones with the waterproof rubber outer. I say winter but it's cold enough today to convince me to wear them.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
So, people wear gloves mostly because the skin dries out so much?
Not originally - it was more to reduce any risk to any children I might unknowingly have been carrying. But the reduction in number of handwashes and consequent dry skin, plus fewer blisters / splinters / pickles is an added bonus that I've got used to. That said, I too put them back on when I've removed them to do something so they are quite grubby inside, and I always wear holes in one or two fingers quite quickly so have one really dirty finger or thumb, and still need to wash my hands quite a bit.
I actually don't quite feel like I'm gardening if I haven't got my trusty gloves on!
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
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I actually don't quite feel like I'm gardening if I haven't got my trusty gloves on!