Maybe there should be a glove swap thread. I often wear one glove at a time. Glove for spiky stingy icky stuff and free hand for delicate stuff or deadheading with thumbnail , tying string etc
@bcpathome, I recommend the Showa gloves as do several other posters. The small size fits really well and are quite tight fitting stretchy fabric with thicker palms. Very easy to operate secateurs. The only thing I can't do in them is tying stems with twine.
@Uff, I obviously need a left handed friend! What a brilliant idea to swop gloves.
A similar thing with wellies. I need them waterproof as I often cross the stream and my grass areas are often wet, very wet just now with dew each morning let alone rain.
But inevitably the soles crack or a thorn punctures them and I have to buy new ones.
I keep the leaky ones 'for dry days' but always end up wearing the new ones.
At least with wellies you probably have around an equal chance of puncturing the left or the right one first, so as long as you buy the same ones every time (or don't mind wearing mismatched ones) you shouldn't accumulate a hoard of unpunctured ones of the same foot.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
My favourite goat skin gloves are back in Lidl this week. I've bought two pairs. You can actually feel what you're doing moreso than rubberized ones.
@B3, are those the leather gloves for £5.99? I've just googled gloves from Li*l and it showed these gloves but they are sized as S-L and the "fingers "look as if they are larger than our fingers. ( Don't think I would be able to feel anything through them) Thanks.
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I often wear one glove at a time. Glove for spiky stingy icky stuff and free hand for delicate stuff or deadheading with thumbnail , tying string etc
@Uff, I obviously need a left handed friend! What a brilliant idea to swop gloves.
But inevitably the soles crack or a thorn punctures them and I have to buy new ones.
I keep the leaky ones 'for dry days' but always end up wearing the new ones.