I very rarely wear gloves. Small nettles are easy peasy to pull out and hardly sting. Once nettles get large and come into flower their sting more or less disappears.
The signs of honest toil @Pansyface. I wear gloves all the time in the garden, thin, tightly fitting ones Showa ones most of the time, leather gauntlets for tough jobs like rose pruning, nettle lifting (luckily we've not got many of those) and dealing with our horribly spikey berberis hedge. I practically need a coat of armour for that job. I get an extreme reaction to nettle stings and insect bites, don't know why but they last for days on me. I don't find antihistimine much good either as I react to that. Dug out a very old bottle of good old fashioned calamine lotion the other day, so old it's gone all thick and gooey but it doesn't half do the job. I wonder if you can still buy it?
I do generally wear gloves, as others have said there's a lot of wildlife about and this is an old farm so bits of glass and metal turn up in unexpected places. But I also do 'fly-by' weeding when I'm not actually gardening, just walking by for some reason, so when I don't have gloves on. Thistles are easier sub soil, nettles I generally just pull out. Brambles I wait til I have gloves on.
The ones I don't like are when they've got over 3 feet or so tall and I'm kneeling down weeding and they fall on the back of my neck. That itches.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Welding gauntlets, riggers gloves or the cotton and rubber type depending on the job. Then as soon as I take them off I get bitten by a no-see-um and have an itching volcano on my fingers for the next few days.
I think my hands are easily twenty years older than the rest of me! Constant washing/alcohol gel in work and gardening in spare time have taken their toll. Extra hand washing and hand sanitiser this last year or so have not helped either. I try to wear gloves, but often get half way through a job before I am reminded to do so.
I always wear gloves and I used to coat glycerin hand cream then put white gloves on after a hard day's gardening to stop them looking like a pair of hobbits feet! Haven't done that for a while
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Oh, that would be me.
I wear gloves all the time in the garden, thin, tightly fitting ones Showa ones most of the time, leather gauntlets for tough jobs like rose pruning, nettle lifting (luckily we've not got many of those) and dealing with our horribly spikey berberis hedge. I practically need a coat of armour for that job.
I get an extreme reaction to nettle stings and insect bites, don't know why but they last for days on me. I don't find antihistimine much good either as I react to that. Dug out a very old bottle of good old fashioned calamine lotion the other day, so old it's gone all thick and gooey but it doesn't half do the job. I wonder if you can still buy it?
The ones I don't like are when they've got over 3 feet or so tall and I'm kneeling down weeding and they fall on the back of my neck. That itches.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”