Wells Lamont Wearpower Plus Gardening Gloves
Okay, it's hard, but we've narrowed it down to the best gardening gloves we use most, or that make the most difference in our yard and garden work.
Many gardeners enjoy digging into the soil without gloves, and there are actually health benefits to working in soil with bare hands. But when you need them, gloves are a handy accessory, so this is our short list of best garden gloves.
Let us know yours and we'll add them here.
The Best Garden Gloves Depend on the Task at Hand
Garden gloves come in many styles and materials. Depending on the task at hand, we wear leather, "rubberized", or for more delicate planting operations, the heavy duty nitrile gloves do the trick.
Leather gloves handle the heavy duty jobs, where we might get scraped, poked, or blistered. When pruning roses or pulling up horse nettles, the tough leather is thorn resistant. Because gloves offer a degree of cushioning, we can apply more strength and force than that of bare hands especially when using tools.
Having worked as landscapers, building contractors, nurserymen, and gardeners for over 4 decades, we've run through our share of gloves. After 40 years, we keep coming back to Wells Lamont leather gloves.
Leather – Best Garden Gloves for Thorns and Other Tough Tasks
The Wells Lamont motto since 1907 has been, "we're stubborn about quality". Hence their featured logo is a mule. They have a huge selection for all seasons, a range of sizes for men and women, and specific chores.
Our current best leather garden gloves are the 1132 model made of pliable, puncture resistant leather, with reinforced leather palm, and a cinch that tightens around the wrist. The 3000 plus overall 4.5 stars on Amazon reflect our own positive experience.
Latex – Best Garden Gloves for Dexterity
Some jobs require more nimble fingers, such as transplanting or handling small objects like screws. While we often doff the gloves and work dirty jobs barehanded, it's a challenge to remove embedded grime. I'm an investment educator and it's just not cool to show up at a workshop of several hundred people with dirt under my fingernails.
So our go-to gloves are the WorkPro Eco Latex gloves. They fit comfortably, keeping the hands protected while the fingers remain nimble. They are also machine washable and water-resistant. These garden gloves come in a six pair package.
Nitrile – Best Disposable Garden Gloves for Damp Work
When working in really moist soil, which includes seeding flats of seedling mix, we like the disposable type made of latex or similar material. We prefer the heavier duty options. Gloveworks Nitrile disposable gloves are the kind auto mechanics use; they can be used several times over before being tossed. They come in a box of 100 but you're bound to find a lot of different uses beyond garden duty.
These surgical type gloves don't breathe, so your hands will get sweaty and wind up with pruny fingers. Fortunately, this condition is temporary and a minor trade-off for not having to scrub grime out of your pores, cuticles, and fingernails.
Latex – Garden Gloves With Claws for Digging
The current number one best garden gloves on Amazon are these claw gloves. We didn't love them, as they didn't last very long, and they're awkward to use for things other than digging. But since they're the number one bestselling garden glove amongst all gloves, they may be a good fit for you.
The greatest advantage? They take the place of a trowel, so you have two tools in one: gloves and a digger, helping you move through your task quickly. The ones that last longer are those that have a snugger fit, providing less floppy mobility that leads to more wear and tear.
Suede Leather Sheepskin or Deerskin – Best Gardening Gloves for Women
For our favorite gardening gloves for women we're back with Wells Lamont's suede leather gloves in deerskin or sheepskin. They fit snuggly and are strong and yet so soft and supple that they justs feel really good on your hands.
Best Gardening Gloves for Women
- Wells Lamont Leather Hydrahide – water resistant cowhide, long lasting, sturdy, medium dexterity
- Deerskin suede leather – the softest, most supple of leather gloves with the most dexterity
- Cotton Jersey Garden Gloves – cloth, soft, pretty, protective, functional, breathable, comfortable and inexpensive. Great all around gloves
- Knit and Rubber Garden Gloves – snug, comfortable, good for most gardening jobs; inexpensive and comes in nice packaging to make for a cool gift for gardeners.
Best Garden Gloves for Kids
- Genuine Leather Work Gloves for kids come in medium and large for ages 4-9. These are reasonably priced for leather gloves, and will help the young budding gardener to feel all grown up by having real leather work gloves like mom and dad.
- Latex Garden Gloves for Kids – Economical, at half the price of kids leather gloves, these are comfortable, in fun colors and with textured anti-slip grip on the palms, and snug elastic cuff to keep dirt out.
Best Gardening Gloves for Men
- Wells Lamont leather gloves – pliable, puncture resistant leather, with reinforced leather palm, and wrist cinch
- Bamboo Work Gloves – we enjoy bamboo products and wearables, and these bamboo rayon gloves are a great all purpose garden glove and feel so good on you might forget they're there. Available in all sizes from small to XXL
- Cowhide and Spandex Gardening Gloves – these provide comfort, durability, flexibility and dexterity
Best Garden Gloves for Rose Pruning
- Goatskin Leather Gloves – Cowhide and Goatskin hybrid gloves making for softer and more flexible gloves made to withstand thorns, making them resilient for other garden jobs as well.
Lotion – Invisible Gloves
If you want the protection of gloves but the real feel of the soil, you might try a shielding lotion called "Invisible Gloves". You pre-apply a coating to your hands and then, after the job, simply wash off. There are several brands available, that serve different purposes.
Best Invisible Gloves – in order of our preference:
- Workman's Friend – moisturizing barrier against glue, grease, grime, dirt, paint, oils; lasts up to 4 hours
- Blue Magic – barrier against grease, grime, oil, dirt, chemical and washes right off
- Gloves in a Bottle – medicated protective barrier; not as effective against dirt and grime.
These lotion gloves have an added advantage of medicating for cases of psoriasis and moisturizing for dry and cracked conditions. These kinds of treatments can make a huge difference toward protecting your hands in winter conditions especially.
What Are Your Favorite Garden Gloves?
Now that, we've offered our favorites, let us know your favorites. We're glad to add your recommendations here to share a broader range of experiences with the GardensAll community.
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G. Coleman Alderson is an entrepreneur, land manager, investor, gardener, and author of the novel, Mountain Whispers: Days Without Sun. Coleman holds an MS from Penn State where his thesis centered on horticulture, park planning, design, and maintenance. He's a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and a licensed building contractor for 27 years. "But nothing surpasses my 40 years of lessons from the field and garden. And in the garden, as in life, it's always interesting because those lessons never end!" Coleman Alderson
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