Re: gloves

I use knit gloves with the rubber dipped fingers and palms for most gardening, leather for roses and brambles, and still plant seeds barehanded. For work in the swamp, I wear those heavy duty rubber gloves that many use for chemical work.
Cathy
On Tuesday, March 8, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Libby Valentine wrote:

Some while ago, perhaps even as long ago as to have been on the AHS
list, we had a brief discussion on gardening gloves (did anyone ever get
a pair of goat gloves from Mr. Glover?). Yesterday it was in the upper
60s here (a tantalizing prelude to today, as it is now howling wind and
accumulating snow) and while I had time and weather I dug a bunch of
pesky Bermuda grass clumps out of the curbside rudbeckia/echinicea bed.
Make that dug and pulled. And since my favorite pair of gloves got holed
last year and I like to feel what I'm pulling, I ended up doing it
barehanded. Did a fair number on my hands, between splinters and scrapes
from the cut stalks and usual wear and tear, plus my fingers were
cracking anyway from winter dryness.


I have Mule work gloves for handling branches and brambles and such, but not for more delicate gardening chores.

My question to you all is: do you wear gloves for gardening and if so,
what kind? I generally can't wear women's gloves because the fingers
aren't long enough, and if I could wear them I'd need women's XL which
isn't usually available. My DH thinks I'm nuts not to have worn
gloves...


Libby
Maryland zone 6


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