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How Long Gardening Gloves Will Protect Your Hands

If you spend any amount of time in the garden, you need to have a pair of long gardening gloves. Not only do they protect your hands from getting scratched up an muddy, but they also help protect your arms as well. The longer the gloves, the more protection that you have for your body.

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Benefits of wearing gardening gloves

You might wonder why wear long gloves in the garden, when it’s so much easier to just go dig in with your bare hands.

Here are just a few good reasons to get you thinking:

  • prevent cuts (also protect your hands if you already have a cut or scratch, since germs and dirt can get in the e and cause havoc)
  • keep you from touching animal waste (yuck! who wants to do that?)
  • when handling fertilizers, your skin can react to the strong chemical components
  • help you keep your nails intact 😉
  • protect your hand while handling bricks, rocks and wood while you build raised beds and edges in your garden
  • make cleanup of your hands and arms so much easier

Long Gardening Gloves for Women

Love to spend your days outside working in your flower bed or vegetable garden, but tired of getting pricked and poked by the various items hanging on or around your plants? You’re not alone in that feeling! Keep your hand and arms sage with these options for long gardening gloves for women.

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Professional Rose Pruning Thornproof Gloves – Don’t worry anymore with these thorn-proof gloves. Form-fitting and comfortable, these long gardening gloves will be the perfect addition for your gardening tools!

Synthetic Leather Long Cuff Rose Garden Gloves – With an anti-slip grip, these gloves will make certain that you hold on tight while offering the protection that you need.

Thornproof Goatskin Leather Gardening Gloves – Flexible enough to offer the protection that you need while also making certain you can make your hands and arms about as needed.

Long Gardening Gloves for Men

Men need protection for their hands and arms as well. these long gardening gloves for men can help keep them unharmed in the garden.

These long gloves are also great to wear when doing other yard work around the house such as pulling weeds! Don’t know which long garden gloves to buy for your man? Here are a few suggestions to get you started!

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Long Rose Gardening Gloves

While roses are quite beautiful, they are full of prickly thorns as well. When you get the urge to start pruning away, it’s imperative to keep your arms protected as well!

Related: how to create a beautiful front yard rose garden

Keep in mind that while there are tons of gardening gloves out there, not all are created equal. You need gloves that offer flexibility, durability and comfort!

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Goatskin Leather Pruning Gloves – Soft and flexible, these long rose gardening gloves are exactly what you’ll need to prune and trim those rose bushes with ease.

Bionic Woman Rose Gloves – Designed by an actual orthopedic doctor, these gloves have pads and protection in all the right places!

Pro Rose Pruning Gardening Gloves – Prune those roses in style with these functional and fashionable long rose  gardening gloves.

Thorn proof Pigskin Leather Gardening Gloves –  Perfect for a man or woman to be able to wear while taking care of these gorgeous rose bushes!

Professional Rose Pruning Thornproof Gardening Gloves – Safe and secure and extra long to allow you to really reach into those rose bushes to take proper care of them.

Long Leather Gardening Gloves

Leather is a great protector and blocker of spiky thorns or other materials when working on your garden.

Don’t think that you can push through taking care of your garden without the proper gloves! These options for long leather gardening gloves are the perfect addition to your gardening needs.

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Synthetic Leather Long Cuff Rose Garden – Perfect protection for your arms and hands. These gloves offer two layers of protection to ensure safety!

Rose Gauntlet Leather Garden Gloves – The creators of these gloves are actually rosarians, so they know what a glove needs to be great in the garden!

Durable Leather Rose Pruning Gardening Gloves – Designed with gardeners in mind, the grips and flexibility of these gloves make pruning and gardening a breeze.

Don’t delay in getting the proper gardening gloves for you and your family. You will find that the more protection that you have for your hands and arms, the more quickly you’ll be able to prune and tend to your garden. You’ll be stopping less frequently due to pricks and pains and you can concentrate on getting your garden perfected! What are you waiting for? Get your gardening gloves today!

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