@Fairygirl oh me too, I've always been an outdoor gal, I just couldn't get my mojo working today. 😑
@MikeOxgreen haha, see you in a bit! 😁 I'm always happy for glove recommendations, I trial lots of different ones as I need them for work, so a tip off would be very welcome.
The gloves are called Skytec Argon, usual price is around £5.60 a pair. They're 100% waterproof so you can dip your hands in water (to about halfway up the back) or whatever and are fleece lined so warm too. I've been wearing them for the last two Winters and can't really fault them. The only minor gripe is they always fail at the gusset between thumb and first finger, but even when they start to split there you can still carry on using them.
I don't usually bother for gardening (unless I'm playing in cold, wet mud..😉) but when you need 'em, you need 'em! Thanks @MikeOxgreen I'll have a look at those.
Depends what I'm doing. I like bare hands for sowing, pricking on, planting most plants but we have lots of nettles here so for weeding, gloves are a must and pruning anything prickly or thorny and for really dirty jobs too.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Just come in from digging, I got fed up in the end and just turned the turf over, lol. The NE facing corner is cold where I'm working, but the sunshine is everywhere else. OH always says "it'll be done in Zen time." He's right too!
Sunny but very cold and windy today but i've had alovely afternoon planting out two rhubarb that I'd brought on in pots and transplanting another into a new rhubarb patch which has been enriched with 4 barrowloads of garden compost and some pelletted manure. Hope they'll be happy.
Also planted out some crocuses, muscari, daffs and tulips that had been lurking while I recovered from a slipped cervical disk that's kept me off gardening for 3 months. Pain in the proverbial.
I have pretty pink cheeks now from all the wind and am heading for a hot shower as soon as I've had a cuppa and cloched the rhubarb.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Today improved here so I got some outside stuff done too. Sawing mainly which kept me warm Turning over a bit of turf sounds fine @Slow-worm. Nothing wrong with a bit of Zen like speculation while tootling around I'm like @Obelixx with the gloves. As often as not I take them off so that I can feel what I'm doing properly. I just use those grey/black builders' gloves for most dirty jobs like lifting slabs and what not. They work well for me and provide a bit of protection from the weather too. I cut all the dead stuff off the Phormium Cream Delight, and I think there's a faint hope that it may survive. There's some reasonable growth right at the front, which was tucked up against the timber of the bed, so fingers crossed. I also managed to saw and dig out a little piece at the back which looked viable, and potted it up. That kept me warm. An extra layer did me for having a seat and a cuppa. It got to about 13 in the sun. That's plenty warm enough for me
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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@MikeOxgreen haha, see you in a bit! 😁
I'm always happy for glove recommendations, I trial lots of different ones as I need them for work, so a tip off would be very welcome.
They're 100% waterproof so you can dip your hands in water (to about halfway up the back) or whatever and are fleece lined so warm too. I've been wearing them for the last two Winters and can't really fault them. The only minor gripe is they always fail at the gusset between thumb and first finger, but even when they start to split there you can still carry on using them.
Thanks @MikeOxgreen I'll have a look at those.
OH always says "it'll be done in Zen time." He's right too!
Also planted out some crocuses, muscari, daffs and tulips that had been lurking while I recovered from a slipped cervical disk that's kept me off gardening for 3 months. Pain in the proverbial.
I have pretty pink cheeks now from all the wind and am heading for a hot shower as soon as I've had a cuppa and cloched the rhubarb.
Turning over a bit of turf sounds fine @Slow-worm. Nothing wrong with a bit of Zen like speculation while tootling around
I'm like @Obelixx with the gloves. As often as not I take them off so that I can feel what I'm doing properly. I just use those grey/black builders' gloves for most dirty jobs like lifting slabs and what not. They work well for me and provide a bit of protection from the weather too.
I cut all the dead stuff off the Phormium Cream Delight, and I think there's a faint hope that it may survive. There's some reasonable growth right at the front, which was tucked up against the timber of the bed, so fingers crossed. I also managed to saw and dig out a little piece at the back which looked viable, and potted it up. That kept me warm. An extra layer did me for having a seat and a cuppa. It got to about 13 in the sun. That's plenty warm enough for me
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...