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Post by daylilydude on Feb 1, 2018 6:08:18 GMT -5
Some gardeners use gloves... I don't, but what brand of gloves do you use and how do you clean them... throw them in a load of laundry or do you wash all the garden apparel all together by themselves?
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Feb 1, 2018 8:11:44 GMT -5
No gloves unless I am trimming raspberry canes. Then I wear leather work gloves.
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 1, 2018 8:19:11 GMT -5
I absolutely always wear gloves when gardening! I have 3 reasons.
First - if I don't wear gloves, my hands quickly become a mess of cuts, scapes, broken nails and dry skin. Very uncomfortable.
Second - I cook most of our meals from scratch and I find it very unappealing to cook with stained fingertips or possibly dirt under my nails.
Third - I like to keep my nails looking nice but I also don't bacteria from the soil lurking under my nails and possibly getting into any food that I am preparing.
I buy a 10-pack of men's gloves at Home Depot once a year. They have a stretchy mesh fabric on top and nitrile on the bottom and the fingertips. I wash them in the washer with my husband's dirty work jeans once in a while but when they develop a hole in the finger tip, I get out a new pair and throw away the first pair.
I also have a pair of leather work gloves for working with the stabby stuff like chestnut burrs or rose bushes.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Feb 1, 2018 8:55:49 GMT -5
Only when working on something that I really need them for, like picking okra, pulling up old vines and plants, you know what I'm talking about. Picking tomatoes and that type of thing, I don't bother. I get deals on them at Harbor Freight - leather and cloth.
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Post by paulf on Feb 1, 2018 10:00:52 GMT -5
When dealing with plants in the garden no gloves worn here. However, digging,hoeing, cutting, trimming,shoveling,sawing and handling any dead plantlike of any kind, leather work gloves are a must.
Need to add--I wear vinyl gloves whenever working with soilless mix doing seedling work. The mix really dries out the skin and by the time I am finished my hands are bleeding or close to it.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Feb 1, 2018 11:14:45 GMT -5
brownrexx laid things out nicely. I wear gloves most of the time in the garden, for those reasons. But I have yet to find a pair of gloves that gives me enough feeling or dexterity to handle small seedlings or seeds, so I do that bare-handed and just wash up. And I don't wear gloves for most picking, unless there is a danger of hiding wasps (okra!) or spines. Since I don't wear gloves for the high-dexterity tasks or most picking, I usually use leather work gloves. I also prefer the ones with the mesh/fabric backs that let my hands breathe when it's hot. I replace my gloves when the fingers get holes in them. TBH, I don't launder my garden gloves. I just rinse them off thoroughly with the hose as needed, and lay them on the shelf on the back porch to dry. Speaking of gloves, I need to get some more gloves right now. A couple of days ago I saw two fingers on my last pair have holes. I can't use men's gloves, though. I have small hands, so I look like a little girl wearing Dad's gloves when I put on men's gloves. What is annoying is when I go shop for gardening gloves and all I find are cute little flowery cloth gloves that aren't good for anything but keeping dirt out from under the fingernails - I need real leather gloves that protect against thorns and will hold up to actual work! Or they only have "one size fits all" women's gloves which are still too big for me. Sometimes I get lucky locally, and other times I have to order gloves online to get what I need.
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Post by september on Feb 1, 2018 11:43:48 GMT -5
A lot of times I don't plan to be doing dirt work, just get sucked into it when doing a walk by check, so no gloves.
But if I plan on a long hand weeding session on purpose, I like to wear the blue nitrile medical type gloves. I buy them for a box of about 100 on Amazon for about $9. They come in different sizes. I blow into them like a balloon to extend out the fingers, and shake some medicated powder or corn starch in them, clamp shut the wrist and shake the slightly puffed glove around to distribute the powder inside. That helps a little with the condensation. I don't have long fingernails, so sometimes I can re-use the gloves a few times. When I peel them off, I hang them somewhere from a clothespin so they hang open and can dry out. I like to wear them when mixing bulk soil tubs for seedling pots, much better feel and grip than other kinds of gloves.
If I'm working with shovels or non-delicate things, I like the mesh or cloth backed plastic palm gloves, get them on sale wherever I find a good deal. I usually end up disposing of them when they get too dirty. I've tried soaking some in a bucket overnight and hand washing, but often the plastic front is getting cracked and split anyway. For raking, I need leather gloves or I get bad blisters too easily.
Forgot to add -- I always try to wear the nitrile gloves when pruning tomatoes -- keeps that smell and stain off.
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 1, 2018 12:04:54 GMT -5
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Feb 1, 2018 17:42:30 GMT -5
Thank you for thinking of me and trying to suggest some gloves for me , but unfortunately I am one of the few people who doesn't like these gloves. They do offer a lot more dexterity than standard gloves, but not enough for handling seeds or small seedlings (at least not in my opinion). They would be good for picking, weeding, transplanting sturdier plants, etc., but (apparently unlike most people), they made my hands very sweaty. I was always anxious to take them off after just a little while. I appreciate the thought, though!
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Post by ahntjudy on Feb 1, 2018 17:53:09 GMT -5
No gloves here...Just for icky or prickly stuff...
I have an old beat up pair of good washable leather gloves that I love...the fingertip threads have opened up on most of them so when I really need to have them on, at least I have some bare fingertip dexterity...That's mandatory...
I've been looking for a new pair but nothing I've seen so far is washable... And the selection in many stores of women's gloves is pretty weeny... Don't want to buy from online...need to try them on...not into returning stuff... I keep checking...
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 1, 2018 18:29:33 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL, I don't wear gloves for seeding or handling little transplants either. I do that bare handed. I mostly wear gloves for pulling weeds and if my hands get sweaty I don't usually care since the rest of me is probably sweaty too!
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Feb 1, 2018 19:06:52 GMT -5
I never use them except for when I was handling creosote treated railroad ties during my younger years.
I do have a silicone glove for the grill though.
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Post by spike on Feb 1, 2018 20:47:52 GMT -5
I have always purchased one of those $5 packets of gloves, usually like 6 pairs per packet, from Lowe's/Home Depot that are cheap cloth dipped in cheap rubber. Works good enough. Expect hubby bought me that Freddy Kruger gloves for Christmas soooooooo I will be wearing my claws out this summer LOL
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Post by octave1 on Feb 1, 2018 21:12:02 GMT -5
I always wear gloves. I don't like garden gloves because they are too thick and make bending my fingers very difficult. I wear disposable gloves. They give me enough protection without interfering with manual dexterity. And since I am not someone who gets really sweaty, I can wear a pair for quite sometime before it starts to fall apart.
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Post by paquebot on Feb 1, 2018 22:16:35 GMT -5
I usually forget that I've got a half-dozen different pairs until there's a couple of raspberry thorns in my fingers. The overall handiest are the disposable medical gloves. I'm in clinics too many times and get a couple pair each time. On the opposite end are several pair of leather Carhartts for real heavy work.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by guruofgardens on Feb 1, 2018 23:19:35 GMT -5
Garden gloves for most garden work except seeding and most times transplanting. I usually go through 2 or 3 pairs per season, with holes in the finger tips.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Feb 2, 2018 0:48:00 GMT -5
paulf I have some black nitrile gloves that are twice (or close to it?) the thickness of regular nutrile gloves, and longer than the usual nitrile or vinyl gloves, so you might want to try them for soil mixing. I get them in boxes of 50 from Harbor Freight, but I'm sure they have them everywhere.
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Post by paulf on Feb 2, 2018 9:29:07 GMT -5
Thanks for the tip pepperhead212. My pretty purple doctor's office type gloves work really well for transplanting. I have some thicker nitrile gloves also. Inside work purple and outside pigskin.
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