Are you a glove person

[NSB]

I was just in the garden, with some gloves I bought, and I really dont like wearing gloves to weed and general gardening.

What do you prefer?

[helly]

I always end up with segs on my hands like pic,but yes I rather not wear gloves except from when I'm diggin

[HeyWayne]

Not being a proper gardener yet, I still have soft and tender office hands so I wear gloves when digging and doing the heavy stuff, gloves off when doing the fiddly bits.

[Maf]

I use gluvs in the freezing wastes of North Yorkshire

Does anyone make gardening gluvs that can be washed without them turning into cardboard

Does anyone sell thermal waterproof gluvs (with ipod dock )

[sez]

Despite hving soft hands i dislike gloves in general, however my new plot is sandy so if I weed with bare hands i wind up wth REALLY dry skin

[allotmentlady]

I wear gloves when moving wood etc.......but I dont like wearing gloves when gardening, you can feel the texture of the soil and I love getting my hands grubby lol

So what if we get sores and our nails look naff, hey the end produce pays off. My hands have a rest during winter and go all soft, but hopefully when the weather improves that will all change!

[Nicos]

Cotton gloves when cold and/or wet - bare hands ( and segs!) the rest of the time

[janeyo]

I have so many different gloves, they only seem to last me one session in the garden before I get holes. I don't really like them as can't feel what's going on very well (I'm the same for washing up, never wear them).
I sometimes wear latex gloves instead and they help quite well with cold hands. I re-use them til they fall apart.
I always use gloves when doing dirty jobs liek cleaning the chooks etc

janeyo

[veg4681]

I don't like wearing gloves, not even for washing up but when you're handling thorny shrubs, clearing nettles/brambles etc, they're a life saver. Otherwise I like the feel of compost and soil in my hand when I'm playing with my bed .

[zazen999]

I have 3 types [I blooming would - wouldn't I].

Cotton for light work in the dry weather

latex for wet work in warmish weather

pink [fake] leather ones for harder work, such as clearing [my new lottie!!! which I get at 4pm on monday - did I mention that!!!].

I double up the cotton [inside] and latex [outside] when it is cold and wet.

I worked in a laboratory for years, and for the first 5 we never wore gloves, and my hands looked like an old ladies; i had to rebel/demand/refuse to work on one set of soil as it had cyanide pouring down the sides when we extruded it; only then did they relent and let us use gloves; and i've used them ever since.

Plus, who likes to break a nail???

[veg4681]

Plus, who likes to break a nail???

Don't have one ! Okay trim them very very short so no dirt get stuck inside. Okay they still do after you've been potting, so trim them even shorter!

[bubblewrap]

I don't usually bother with gloves except when I'm cutting back my blackberries & raspberries.

[TonyF]

I haven't always used gloves but recently have had to start using them, mainly because of my blood thingy. If I get even the smallest nick, I bleed like buggery so need to take some precautions.

Was off felling trees today at chum's house so wore the big chain saw armoured gloves (8 trees, 4 over 40 feet high) but usually I wear soft leather gloves except when I'm planting out (gloveless) or painting the boxes, shed etc., when I use latex gloves.

[TonyF]

I used to scrub around in the soil of new gardens, getting all sorts of 'things' stuck down the sides of my nails, totally unaware of what could be lurking in the unknown soil

And as an aside to Piskie's comment, PLEASE folks, make sure that you have had a tetanus injection

[TonyF]

How many years do you need to do this? My last one was 2004, not sure if you should have boosters?

Every ten (10) years.