The Gloves I Love

My gardening gloves, be they ever so humble.  Most days I use the $4 fabric gloves on the left.  They last about a year of hard use, but at that price I buy myself two or three pair a year and always have enough.  Best of all, they fit both hands equally well, so I never have to hunt down a left and a right.  Imagine the freedom, the convenience, the sheer niftiness of that idea.  See how easy I am to please?

The newer pair on the right are my muddy-day gloves because they have rubber where you need it.  At $10 a pair they're more expensive, but they last forever.  They came in very handy this past weekend as I was moving large amounts of wet soil.  You know, the kind of real gardening work we never talk about when we show people around our lovely finished products.

There's one more pair I use once every other year or so and they're the stiff, hard-to-put-on and hard-to-use leather gloves we're supposed to use for practically everything because they offer so much protection.  So okay, if I'm wielding a very dangerous power tool, I'll put 'em on, but I'll never like 'em.

Comments

[Rachel]

I love gardening gloves. I usually buy the cheap brown kind. They don't last too long though. I have never seen the rubber ones. I will have to look for a pair like that. How handy they would be!

[sandy]

I average a pair of the green one every month or two. I spend a small fortune on gloves. I always get holes in the right one. Pointer finger top and left side. Always the same! LOL.

[Heather]

I heart my pea green suede leather gloves. My nitrile ones have been relegated to trellis building because they're so tacky (in the sticky sense) and save my hand a lot of effort cutting and fitting the copper. But they make my hands REALLy sweaty, which I don't like. I prefer how the suede is thick (no rose thorns) but still soft and breathable. Even when they get wet, they're not uncomfortable.

[Pam L]

I never remember to wear gloves, in fact I usually don't like wearing them for planting and such , but have the leather or suede ones for working around the roses and raspberries and if I have a lot of mulch or something like that to work with, or maybe a lot of raking.