Gloves

Wearing these same gloves your hands would be perfectly safe and comfortable trimming hedges, mowing the lawn or using any other garden power tool. Blisters would never form on your hands. Cuts and scrapes would be a thing of the past.

Mud and moisture would never get through to your skin as you dig out weeds and rocks. Your hands would never sweat while wearing the ultimate gardening gloves. They would be easy to clean, affordable and last almost forever.

Does all of this sound too good to be true? Well it is. No single pair of gardening gloves can do all of that equally well. Inevitably there are tradeoffs and compromising if you go with a single pair of multipurpose gardening gloves. However, lots of modern glove designs combine new and old technologies to come very close to the perfect multipurpose gardening gloves.

Leather has been around almost forever and still offers the best all around surface material for the palm and gripping side of the fingers. For most people natural leather palm and fingers is the best combination of dexterity, protection and comfort.

Synthetic leathers have gotten much better over the years. Many offer equal or better performance compared to natural leather. Most synthetic leathers are now washable. For the best palm and hand protection, go with a heavy-duty polyurethane synthetic suede backed by a dense layer of foam padding. Some even have gel inserts for added protection. Depending on how you use these gloves you may also want to look for silicon gripping dots on the palm and fingers. The best gardening gloves also reinforce key contact points, like the index finger and thumb, with Kevlar or Spectra for ultra durability. Here, of course, is where compromising comes in. With each of these extra layers of protection the gloves get more rigid and dexterity is lost. You will have to decide for yourself what works best for your needs.

For some people dexterity will be a higher priority than durability and protection. Synthetic nylon gardening gloves made out of Nitrile, Supplex or Spandex offer the best skin tight fit and dexterity but have much reduced protection and padding.

The backhand side of the best gardening gloves is almost always made out of high stretch, breathable synthetic material for comfort and good fit. Padded Spandex or stretch mesh nylon is very commonly used with neoprene, over the back of the fingers for knuckle protection.

The panels between the fingers are usually also made of a high stretch, breathable synthetic to help ventilate out sweat and moisture. To top it off, the best gloves have a Velcro wrist closure to keep dirt and debris out, and to enhance fit.

Inevitably, when you really start getting into your work in the garden your forehead starts to sweat. High end garden gloves have even gone so far as to add a terry cloth brow wipe to the back of the gloves. They have thought of almost everything with these new gardening gloves.