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Gardening Gloves

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  • Another vote for Atlas 370. Really good prices on this site, I have tried a few gardening gloves from here: https://mstore.co.uk/
    The Skyec Aria are also good
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Lidl will have their goat skin gardening gloves next week here. They come in sizes and are fine enough the do pretty delicate hand weeding. Velcro wrist bands.
    I bought two pairs last time because the foxes are quite partial to them too. They've gone up a pound but still  cheap
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    I use B&Q builders' gloves for rough work: pruning (I have nipped my fingers twice, so like one on the spare hand) and pruner-saw use (I have sawn my spare hand. only once, but nastily).

    I also use them for handling dodgy plants like giant hogsweed,  or those with corrosive latex sap.  Thistles though seem to go straight through.  Nettles and brambles I grab just above the soil level.

    For soil contact work I prefer free.  As do do with my pruning hand.  

    I avoid Margo-type fashion in the garden like the plague.


     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I have thicker gloves and gauntlets for spiky work. What is Margo-type fashion?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    B3, I don't believe that you are so young that you have never heard of the TV comedy "The Good Life". Margo was the posh neighbour.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited October 2022
    Are you suggesting that goat skin gardening gloves are girlie?

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    edited October 2022
    Waitrose have some of their gardening gloves reduced to half price. These were £6, leather palms and suede back, the medium size fitted me, and I got a pair for my daughter, who has tiny hands and struggles to get decent work gloves. 
    I also buy the heavy duty suede welders gauntlets for bramble pulling up. Last pair came from Screwfix.


  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    B3 said:
    Are you suggesting that goat skin gardening gloves are girlie?



    My Margo comment refelects my view on fasion in the garden.  It followed one of your posts but ws definitely not referring to you.  Right now, I'm having a spot of trouble witht "quotes"
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Ergates said:
     also buy the heavy duty suede welders gauntlets for bramble pulling up. Last pair came from Screwfix.


    My tip: grip brambles just above the base.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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