That was a sobering link. I think I'll wear the nitrile under the the regular gardening gloves. I always shake the gloves before putting them on to make sure no brown spider crawled inside. Their bite can cause loss of fingers also.
Do you or don't you??
I'm late...I always forget to check for "new" threads. I wear mud gloves or something like them...also, if I'm doing light work (potting up Dahlias, etc) I just put on gloves I bring home in my scrubs. In the fall when the weather is really not to cold, but definitely not warm, I will double glove...waiting for a comment on that one...I'll wear the gloves I bring home from work under a pair of mud gloves. Generally though, if I'm weeding, seperating, dividing, transplanting, or doing non heavy lifting, it's free handing...lol. The only thing I'm usually armed with in the garden, is my hori hori knife...it is the true bane of any dandelions!
My DH was bitten by a brown recluse spider a few years back. It bit him on the back of his leg by his ankle. He ended up in the hospital with IV antiboitics. The infection had spread up to his lymph nodes in his groin and they had to do hydrotherapy on his leg to remove the necrotic tissue surrounding the bite. He was in the hospital for 3 days! So everyone watch out for the spiders too!
And make sure your tetanus shot is up to date!
Rats! Okay - I will wear gloves outside . . . the thought of losing all my limbs has convinced me. :-(
I wear heavy suede gauntlet gloves when working around roses...I have a pink Grootendorst rose that I actually am afraid of! Indestructible, too. We were moving the garden one year and I dug up that crazy rose and laid it on its side with its roots in the the little stream that runs through the property...AND FORGOT ABOUT IT UNTIL THE NEXT SPRING! I found it the next April, green as can be, popped it back in the ground and it had flower and was 4' tall again by that fall.
For regular yard work, like raking, I wear these gloves...West County Gardener www.westcountygardener.com...they feel good when you wear them.
But for diggin' in the dirt and plantin' plants and stuff: I like bare hands.
Wow, that's some rose! Nice gloves, thanks for the link. ☺
I have an assortment of gloves, some rubberized, some cloth. I tend to use the rubber ones when I'm dealing with clean-up - what with all the muddy, yucky, bird-poopy stuff.
I also like the latex ones - sort of like surgical gloves. No bulk, and when digging in the dirt, it's almost like there's nothing on at all! I can still get the "feel" of it.
Nancy
Venu, What does Bridgette have to do with seals?
I have my tetanus shot, wear mudgloves over a condom on each finger, take oral contraceptives and wear a cup. Never too much protection for me.
I think bells are going off in DG admin-land!!
I had second thoughts but couldn't figure what the problem could be other than bad taste. We'll see.
It's what athletes wear to protect their privates, Sherrie.
The strap holds it in place.
Not surprised Sherrie!
Think about it as half a bra.
LOL!
LOL!
I got my tetanus booster last week but I don't think it will protect me from this thread. LOL You guys are crazy. Nice, fun but crrrraaaaaazy! I like it. :)
Dave, Bridgette was a fierce advocate of stopping baby seal slaughter. What is it with the NE forum? We go from gloves to seals to spiders to cups. I visit some other forums and they don't seem to have the fractured threads that the NE has. Too bad for them :~)
They don't have our fractured minds...Half a bra is my favorite kind. The half should be alternated though.
Gee I didn't think it was fractured at all, it made perfectly good sense to me! ☺
WC2, that's cause we're all fractured! Of course it makes perfect sense.
I love this thread - it is sort of a stream-of-consciousness thread. It must be a gathering of minds that think alike - only differently.
Most of our threads are like this, seeds, even the weather thread!
A half, alternated bra, Victor? Alternating what? From one side to the other?
Yes - I prefer equal time.
Yeesh, I leave the continent for 48 hours and you guys are all in jock straps wearing baby seals and eating goat cheese! I was in Puerto Rico! x, Carrie
Puerto Rico sounds very cool, Carrie! Tell us more. . .
(while I finish the goat cheese) LOL
Well, pass the goat cheese. It was more a case of too much cool, and not enough warm, if you catch my drift, and of course, it's getting to be the time of the year when other people don't want to go to the Caribbean, which is the only time space is available.
Last time we were anywhere warm - other than the back yard - was Aruba, and it was HOT! P.R. in April was more like mid-June, it would have been perfect if it weren't for the chill in my bones. Brrrr, I hate that. And we can only afford to go for 48 hours, or leave Fri am return Sun pm, so maybe 56 hours. Not long enough to REALLY thaw out.
Back to gloves, I want to get the arthritis rose gloves for DH because he has all those same skin allergies Victor has but is not manly enough to admit his sensitized side. So I'll get him some gloves as a Husband's Day present. Sound good? He's not my father, and he's not my children's father, although he acts like it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CBQXM6/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Whoops - those aren't the arthritis ones, or are they? He has pretty bad arthritis.
xx, Carrie
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Whoops - those aren't the arthritis ones, or are they?
I don't know Carrie, but I ordered them after hearing some good recs on this thread--I have some humongous thorny roses to prune in the next few days.
Don't know what "arthritis gloves" would be, but they sound like a good deal. . .
They had bits that would massage or acupressure or firmly hold (???) arthritic joints maybe - I don't have arthritis myself (yet). DH has arthritis, sometimes he says his hands feel like they have shards of glass in the joints, and he has skin that breaks out when he deadheads or weeds or anything, which he always tries to do. The American Arthritis Club (that's not what it's called of course) recommended them, I think. xx, Carrie
These are golf gloves recommended for arthritis.
http://www.bionicgloves.com/shop/?id=2&cat=3
The arthritis foundation.
**how is it that Victor and I can both set out to find out the exact same information, but he simply finds it out and returns, whereas I fill a cart with rose gloves (to protect DH's sensitive skin), cashmere-lined woman's driving gloves (for my skin), other gloves (for DH's arthritis), other gloves for myself (in case a man's size fits better) and then abandon the whole thing to come here (because I think Amazon has the same thing with cheaper shipping)? x, Carrie
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She's not only the President of the Club, she is a member.
Made a boo-boo. The Bionic gloves are only guaranteed for 30 days, not a year. Not sure where I got that from. I'm getting old.