No gloves until I get blisters big enough to hurt... THEN I remember.

No gloves. I'm enough of a klutz barehanded!

I also wear the Fox Glove Gardening Gloves. I always wear gloves and have been wearing these for probably as long as they have been out. I live on an old farmstead and I'm always uprooting pieces of glass and such (a Tornado went through in the 60s and well...). I usually get my Fox Gloves from Frostproof Growers. You can get the original version or the ones with the grip dots. Not much for color selection, but color isn't the reason I'm buying them. LOL http://www.frostproof.com/cata...

I also got my Felcos there. I love my Felcos. http://www.frostproof.com/cata...

Diann

never wore gloves unless weeding in the past.. been trying to be better and wear them .. I have been trying to leave a stash of cheap clean gloves handy .. so when I leave them outside somewhere.. I don't have to go looking for them.. yeah they can take a wash or two but then they are trash.. and I keep a couple of better pairs that were dipped for big planting days

Always hated the general store bought cheapie gloves until I tried the Atlas ones, now I have stocked up in a couple of co-ops and never go without them! My hands thank me. I wear them through any job, from seed sowing to digging and watering.
As this reviews states, they "are ergonomically shaped around your hand for high level of flexibility and dexterity. People have said that while wearing Atlas Nitrile gardening gloves, they felt like they were working bare handed."

http://www.gardening-experts.c...

All good references, thank you!

Lin- I added a gardener's soap to the mix that I make, and I don't know how we got along without it!
Scrubby soap is a good thing!

Lee Ann

What do you do in the garden at -45 F? I stay indoors!

I have been known to brave the cold to shovel snow onto certain fussy perennials that need the extra cover....and the wind has blown them bare.

No gloves, even when pulling poison ivy!

Doug

you da man! (although that's insane!)

I use atlas and foxgloves. I put a small bit of coconut oil on my hands each time I wash them and it has really helped keep them from being rough. I probably do this about 6 times a day, its cheap and its easy. I always wear gloves, I hate the dirt under the fingernail look.
Rebecca

Always was for no gloves in the past, but have since switched to wearing them since I tried the Atlas nitrile gloves. My hubby has taken to using them too. They're also good when machine quilting.

My dh pulls poison ivy and oak with no gloves either. Yikes!

I look at it and break out.

No gloves till I started a business 5 years ago , I pull weeds for others and 4 hours of weed pulling a day will quickly wear out my hands so I wear the atlas gloves.
Bare handed for seedling transplanting , need to feel the little leaves

I my atlas gloves, especially the thermal ones in the winter for snow shoveling duties.

but, even in the winter... I forget to put them on. I usually only remember once I have muddy yucky hands and then its too late

Zanymuse said:Gloves for brambles and stinging nettle, no gloves for anything else. I can't seem to find any that fit me well enough to be of much use.

Unless you've got little ittybitty hands like from the old Burger King commercials, you can't have hands bigger than mine. I wear a size 2XL in gloves, so I'm always stuck in men's gloves (can NEVER find women's gloves that fit.. never never never!!) I use the white/orange gloves from Home Depot to do my gardening and they fit just fine.. plus you can still 'feel' with them on. Try them! Besides, they're uber cheap!

My hands are "portly" They are the width of a med size mans glove but the fingers are the length of a childs so the tips are always empty and I can't pick anything up in them.

Zany - Ah, I know exactly what you mean! My sister is the SAME exact way! I always make fun of her hands 'cuz they don't look like anyone else in the family's... (we've always made fun of each other.. I was known as the ski feet/elephant ears/giraffe legs/orangutang arms in the family..)

And there's NOTHING wrong with portly finners.. I wear a size 10 wedding band!

I took an art class in high school and we were given an assignment to create a life size sketch of our own hand and not to sign it. The sketches were then turned in and the instructor critiqued each one. When he got to mine he used it to show how important it is to use proper proportions. I had to giggle when he said "this is a prime example of the artist not using proper proportions. The palm is wide and very detailed and the fingers are very well done also...but they do not look like they fit the palm... Your assignment was to sketch your hand as realistically as possible...NOT to make a caricature of it."

I stood up and walked to the offending sketch, placed my open hand over it and grinned as he spluttered out apologies