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Gardening Quick Tip: Cheap Gloves
by Jeff Lewis

At the national D.I.Y. emporiums, your choices for gardening gloves are slim, and unless you knit your own or have an excellent source for reasonably-priced gloves, you have to settle for one of two types: a) leather gloves that fall apart in the wash, or b) cotton gloves that fall apart while gardening (as well as in the wash).

This is not an ideal situation, but if forced into buying the cheap cotton gloves, get a large pack. If you do a lot of weeding, the glove on your dominant hand will fall apart much more rapidly than the other.

Righties, therefore, can double the lives of their gloves by turning half of the left hands inside out. Lefties, turn out the rights. This is the secret knowledge that the glove cabal doesn't want you to hear!

If gardening in worn gloves leaves you with dirty nails, save up your soap scraps - old splinters of soap are the perfect tool to scrape dirt out from under your nails. Keep them dry for tough dirt and moisten them if you need to bend around the curvature of your nail. It's also possible that if you jam the soap under your nails before gardening, it'll block some of the dirt, but I haven't actually tried that yet.