Secret Gardening Equipment for Your Hands: Garden Gloves!
Secret Gardening Equipment for Your Hands: Garden Gloves!Spring is nearly here and many gardeners are checking out their gardening equipment to see how they fared over the winter. They checkout their tillers, chipper-shredders, lawnmowers, rakes, hoes, shovels and hand tools. But they forget to check out the secret equipment needed to protect their most important asset for gardening: gardening gloves for their hands.Garden gloves?
Now why would they be so important?
As you garden you subject your hands and arms to all sorts of situations that are not good for your skin. You can develop blisters as you push rototillers and lawnmowers around the garden or yard. Your hands can get very dirty and dried out and your nails chipped and broken as you transplant seedlings into your garden and flowerbeds. Then your hands and arms can get scratched, poked, splintered and damaged while you trim hedges and your roses and raspberry bushes. Don't forget trying to keep chemicals off your hands and out of those cuts when repairing lawn and garden equipment or spraying plants for pests or fertilizing your garden. Wearing the right type of gardening gloves can help solve these problems.
Don't think that one garden glove will fit all situations.
You should have several different types of gardening gloves to match the different types of lawn and garden chores you do. A basic cotton jersey or canvas glove can suffice for very basic general chores that don't require heavy pulling or gripping. If you want a little gripping power along with these gloves, you can get them with small PVC or plastic dots on the palms, fingers, and thumbs. You can also get lightweight cotton or nylon liners that have been dipped in a rubber or nitrile coating that provides protection against moisture yet allows you to easily grasp a tender seedling to plant. For more complicated tasks you'll want a canvas glove with leather palms and fingers, which keeps your hands cool yet the leather is durable and prevents those nasty blisters. A good pair of leather gloves is also great to have for heavy duty tasks. Those with extra palm padding are fantastic for those extra heavy duty tasks. Long gauntlets or cuffs protect your lower arms from thorny plants like roses and raspberry plants. Different types of chemical resistant gloves are available for those messy liquid and chemical chores.
Make sure that the garden gloves you purchase fit your hands and are comfortable.
Women can't always wear small men's work or garden gloves and should look for gardening gloves especially made for their hands which tend to be narrower and longer than mens. The same is true for fitting children and toddlers with gardening gloves.
Now that you have a variety of gardening gloves to protect your hands, use them accordingly. Don't forget to take care of them and most of them will last several gardening seasons.
Kathleen Johnson lives in central Montana and has been gardening for over 35 years. She prefers vegetable gardens because she loves eating fresh produce, but enjoys growing flowers too. Gardening in a border Zone 3 area can be challenging but the rewards are worth it. Ms. Johnson owns KatzGardenGloves providing "The Best Online Source of Gardening Gloves." Wander through our fantastic gardening glove selection at http://www.katzgardengloves.com.
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