Gardening Gloves: Your Hand Protection
After a hard days work using your garden gloves to protect your hands you can enjoy the relaxation of your beautiful garden, while you take in the aromatic smell of your flowers and pick your herbs and vegetables.
There are almost as many types of gloves, as there are uses for them. Use gloves to protect your hands. Here are a few tips that can help you make the right choice when you go to buy your gardening gloves.
Get yourself a couple of pairs of gardening gloves and have the cloth back with the leather home. These are considered a very good general gardening glove. They keep your hands cool, while you’re working.
Your thorny rose bushes bring up another type of leather glove, you’ll need to protect your arms as well as your hands, while pruning them. The leather gloves with gauntlets do a good job of protecting your arms from those sharp thorns.
Unless you’re gardening, totally organically and totally pesticide free you’ll need a pair of neoprene gloves to protect your hands from chemicals and pesticides. Don’t just go to the grocery store and buy the latex gloves, though they won’t protect you.
Purchase a pair of rubber gardening gloves for working in the mud and dirt of a wet garden. Not all days will be sunny, especially just after a rain.
In the early spring its cold out, so you need to protect your hands from the cold while planting your seedlings, which can be pretty tender and delicate. Fingerless gloves work well for this type of task.
When buying your gloves no matter which type you buy make sure they fit. A glove that is too small will fit so tightly you can’t move them and a glove that is too big will cause the ends of the fingers to bend over. Your fingers won’t reach the end of the glove and the extra material will make you very clumsy. Gloves are a gardeners companion that can protect your hands from mud, dirt, blisters, and the cold.
For more information about gardening tips go to Mossy Oaks Nursery.
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